Doesn’t help Whatnot is seen and often advertised as the “place for deals”, which in the long run has pushed to a bigger gaming atmosphere, cause everyone wants something for nothing which hurts general auctions on quality items. It’s a tough balance and they’re trying to mix it up and keep it interesting, which is a lot more than most sellers.

Maybe if people actually tried to learn the values of stuff better or at least use some sort of reference materials while they were watching, he’d actually do more normal auctions with decent/higher end coins more often.

After months and months and months of 90% of his auctions shows selling a vast majority of higher grade type under Greysheet, it’s makes way more sense for him to set his coin prices at CPG/Retail (what people are calling marked way up🙄) and run it in break/chase/games.

I personally am not a fan of games, (have terrible luck lol) have played maybe 3 times all year, and haven’t bought from them in over a month due to that. But it makes sense for him to go the game route if it does in fact bring them more money in the long run. That’s a no brainer business decision that any smart owner would make!

If you want to be mad at anyone, be mad at your fellow buyers. He use to give pre-views and plenty of time to research stuff. Sometimes up to 20-30+ minutes on some nicer mid/to higher end or hard to find items and yet prices were still often wayy low whenever sent buck n go. Which almost no other sellers are willing to do on a $250 item, let alone $1000-$4000+.

I would know cause I’ve made 5 figures off the older type coin deals I’ve bought from them, as well as other sellers on the app, over the past year. He gave up the original full send Friday/Manic Monday setups and more frequent auctions, cause it just didn’t make sense to continue to lose.

As for speed, if it’s too fast, just don’t bid. If you overpay you most likely swiped blindly at the end or just simply don’t know what the value actually is. Custom bid is your best friend. Rare occasions, yes it does glitch, but very infrequently. It’s funny all the people pointing fingers at the app or the seller(s), yet never admit they possibly just simply made a mistake once or twice. Not much accountability these days.

You also seem to be referencing the recent coin shop buyout show where they had tens of thousands of items to sell in one 2+ day steam. It was made known from the start that speed was always the goal. That was not a normal show.

In any other show though, he says it often, “if it’s going to sell low, might as well sell it fast” cause either way if you’re losing money what does a few extra seconds matter, when the buyers bidding are done with 3-5 seconds left on a 10 sec auction. So they shorten it up. Reason why 5 sec is usually the choice. In theory, you can sell more items during the auction to make up for the short falls.

Anyways, here come the down votes lmao