[Steve Kuffrey]

In my experience in using the trade block, I have traded a number of players that I placed there to computer owned teams. They don't always get "looked at", I've had players sit there for over a year with NO offers, but I have also traded away a number of players I placed there.

In reference to your experiment of getting a trade offer then going to the "trade area" and setting up the same trade to see if it would fly and having it come back rejected. I see that as "possibly" like the idea of "I like it IF I thought it up, not if you did" kinda thing. No facts to back this up, per se but I know that human's act this way.