I'd love if I could submit an auto-bid. "Just keep bidding until the bid amount gets over X". I've purposely bid against myself just to drive up the value of high ticket things to the ballpark of what I know it is going to end up as. Let's face it, you and I know that free claim is not going for anything less than 10k.
#1 is true of course. Happens a lot more often since they've nerfed off-world trading prices (I think people whined way too much about how 'overpowered' off world prices are honestly. I think the bug that added the extra 0 to the tooltip kinda made people think it was a lot more powerful than it really was (even though the actual money gained was not bugged). I disagree so much on #2. You're paying for the auction claim with debt, not cash. Debt is a lot 'cheaper&#