This is one part rant, one part genuine question, feel free to downvote or tell me to get lost, whatever... I've just been confounded for so long by this behaviour that I'm finally asking other trademe members about this, because I simply don't get it. We all watchlist auctions that we don't intend to purchase. Most are 'start = reserve'. sometimes, they fail to sell week after week. My question is - why do the majority of sellers put up fixed price offers higher than the reserve in which no-one was interested? Is this some clever tactic the logic of which has escaped my average intelligenc...