I generally pass on auctions with reserves too. Too much hassle. Don't wanna sell below a certain price point? Then set the starting bid there. That way you don't waste your time and I don't waste mine messing with an auction where we're not going to agree. A big issue is that the reserves are usually set far too high anyways. I hang out on Gunbroker a LOT looking for particular items. Far too often I'll see the same rifle on it's little auto-relist rotation going back up for sale over and over and over again. People bid on it every time. They never meet the reserve. The reality is that the seller is just not willing to actually let the gun go for market price. They'd rather hold out hope that some idiot will pay their inflated price. Meanwhile the same gun has been sitting on the "auction" site for a year or more just wasting people's time.
Other pet peeves of mine: credit card fees. I don't mind actually paying them one bit, but you better call it a fee or a surcharge. The instant I see some bullcrap about "final bid price reflects 3% cash discount" I leave. That trick was stupid when it was for fixed prices (a discount comes off of an advertised price), but for auctions where the bidders set the price it's even worse. Regardless of the final price being the same, the seller calling it a cash discount rather than a credit card surcharge to me implies a snakey and sneaky seller.
And also, you put what all a gun is NOT in a title, and I'll never look at an auction. Example, half the time I'll search for something like "Mauser 6.5x55". I'll get an auction with the following title:
Remington 6.5x55 NOT Mauser, Winchester, Ruger, Tikka, Browning, Marlin
No crap, if it's a Remington it's not those things. The idea on their part though is that their little auction pops up if you search for ANY of those. Again, this indicates a dishonest seller, and worse if I didn't search for Remington then you've now polluted my search results with an item I wasn't searching for. Even if their listing IS something I'm looking for I'll pass by these.