Mary, I don't reduce images before posting but I do it on a computer, I don't know if it is different on a smartphone.
Peonyplan, I hoped I could buy something for lower price that on the market, something that I could not afford (New Millennium for example) but organizers wanted to sell items for a fair price or higher so nothing went cheap. For me the auction was waste of time (and it was late in the evening!). That's OK, APS got some money.