Listing at 1k allows more users to see the player and creates advertising and is a good strategy to try and get a high price via more bidders.
Sorry, I disagree. Yes, you will generate the "bookmark" bids if you list a player for next to nothing, but you also risk selling him for less than market value. If the player was worth, say, $800k, and the seller actually wanted $800k for him, then he should list him for $800k.
In this particular case, the player would have sold for a lot more if the site did not freeze.
It's not like he is unjustly angry.
Again, sorry, but you don't know that to be fact and neither does the OP. He's not upset that the site froze, he's upset that his player sold for less than he wanted. The problem here is that this type of thing has happened before in BB, on a much grander scale, and is one of the reasons you can't list a player for $0.
Therefore, I contend that his claim that his player sold for less than he wanted rests entirely on the fact that he listed him for less than he wanted. If he had listed the player for $800k and BB went down, do you think we'd be reading this thread right now?