what really irritates about merchers

[Rare]

I could also say the same thing for expecting obscene prices like 26m for a vanity and wondering why the rich won't pay. O_O

That's true. If there was a better system in CS, it would be MUCH easier to gauge what the "true" market value is.

Rather than this

"its worth this much"
"i got an offer for this much"
"it will never sell for that much"
"so and so is selling for this much"

I dont think anything STG will do can change low ballers and i dont think people who dont know to avoid low ballers log in to forums

The idea of making auction listing fee smaller for the more expensive items seems logical to me, seems weird to lose 100k's or millions over listing fees.

Exactly. Take this for example. Singe egg. What's the "REAL" price for this? Nobody knows. One day someone buys for 35M, another day, 25M. By capping the CS listing fee (some decently high value), it will encourage people to list these items rather than walking around town gossiping and trying to sell at some artificial value.

If there are 25 listed in CS, you can reasonably assume the market value is at or below the lowest value. If there is 1 or none... what do you do? You have to go by what people say. This creates a very unstable market with huge fluctuations in item values.

For items over 3m (for example) most people are not going to list these in cs because of:

1) the very high cost of listing fees
2) listing runs a high risk of losing your listing fee because you really have no idea of the actual value of an item

Hence the reason there are so few items at this price.