Most buyers will offer less. As a seller of some 8 years I find this ok if the buyer-is reasonable with their offer i.e. your start of auction price is £25 and they offer £22/23. Its not alright when you have a price of £25 and get offered£10. This seems to be the norm lately. I have kept the best offer but now put in a fixed price i am willing to accept and the rest get auto declined. Its the same with watchers, i call them “Reducers” as that is the reason for watching, waiting for you to reduce the item to a much lower price than the ridiculously low price you already have it listed at. For me i will be leaving once i have listed my items in auto list for 8 times and they havent sold because there not 99p and NO this does not encourage bidding , most times the item will sell at 99p or some really low ridiculous amount. No sale - charity shop. This way the charity benefits and not someone who thinks your £50 item is worth 99p. Postage same cenario. We pay fees on postage, dont pass to buyer but i do add packaging fees. Evri is now £3.10 for under 1 kilo so i charge £3.80. This does not even cover my expenses - packing paper, sellotape, packaging tape, mailing bags, bubble wrap, foam chippings, petrol to and from parcel shop i can go on. Do i think its worth it now - NO. It takes up so much time for so little money and then you get the nit pickers who say you havent described your £2.95 item correctly because the pink in the photo is a slightly brighter shade than the pink on the item when they receive it. Then you have paid out the postage and have to give it back, so you lose the postage money and the buyer knows this so hopes you wont bother to ask for it back. They then keep the item and you have to return their money including postage. SCAMMERS.
