Whatnot Auction questions for the group...

[JustinD]

Watched an interesting video on Whatnot (which I have not honestly used yet) and while the presenter is a bit grating there is some good logic here.

I have seen this guy on several platforms and he does a good chunk of business. As a former eBay seller who left when negative buyer feedback was removed, I am always looking for the future of selling and the fixes for some of eBays continual domino of failures by the whatnot platform seems decent.

https://www.tiktok.com/@pawn.man/vid...70465653017899

Here is his longer dive on youtube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iJJkSdh9I
(Skip to 17 minutes to save time)

Has anyone tried or know of any Whatnot card sales?

Genuinely interested in checking this out and supporting people trying new options.

[packs]

Whatnot is mostly for breakers of modern boxes. There are some vintage sellers with a decent audience but I mostly only see low value cards up on their shows. I haven't seen someone selling Ruth's, Cobb's, etc. on Whatnot.

[Rich Klein]

Whatnot had a few months ago a valuation of nearly 4 Billion with a B. With that type of backing and the perceived slowdown in modern braking a smart company will evolve into at least providing some older cards for their users. They might also need to evolve some of their enthusiastic practices in selling cards (nothing illegal or immoral just LOUD) and focus more on an different type of enthusiastic process for selling older cards.

[packs]

You've got to remember that Whatnot is not just a sports card marketplace. They're similar to eBay and have channels and sellers who cater to just about anything.

[Jewish-collector]

It's just a small version of eBay with some extra bells & whistles. What someone needs to create is a platform for all auction houses and sellers of vintage sports cards/memorabilia to be part of. Then instead of the many, many different auction houses, you would have a single platform that would have all the vintage material. Like an eBay or a Whatnot for ONLY vintage sports cards & memorabilia.
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[packs]

It’s not all that much like eBay outside of offering things at auction and by category. The major difference between eBay and Whatnot is that the auction occurs in real time, you can see every bid and who’s bidding and you don’t have to wait for the auction to run its course over a week. Everything is now.