QUOTE(Scremaz @ Sep 23 2018, 12:09)

i always had the impression that starting prices tend to scare away people, rather than preventing unfairness toward customers. maybe it's time to switch to reserve prices?
Further than that, it looks like they tend not to bid on things that have a reasonably high start price, but end up in stupid war bids with values that become way higher than these start bids. Human's irrationality at its finest, IMHO.
This is something that is very problematic for me, as it makes very, very difficult to get a fair price out of an item without having a high risk of it going away for a bullshit low price due to lack of competition.