Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter: Sunday Picks

eBay Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter

Sunday, May 26, 2024

This newsletter may include affiliate links. If you click one of them, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for being a subscriber and helping support the Hot Finds.

This Weekend Is Loaded With Auctions

So what about WhatNot? Last night as I'm driving home from SC an old friend starts up a text thread (yes I used hands free!). He was watching a stream on the live selling App WhatNot. We got into a discussion of the platform and he indicated that with some of his old Star Wars stuff he was thinking of trying a show. I explained that I have been flirting with this idea for almost a year.

Order of the Arrow Auctions Up For Bids

If you have not checked it out - it's basically live selling. The sellers creates a stream in the platform and runs micro auctions that last anywhere from 5 seconds to maybe 30 as they show the pieces. In the app you can bid on the items live and it can move really fast with a lot about every minute. My thought all along has been to combine an unboxing with this platform. What do you think?

Auctions Are The Hot Finds Secret Sauce

So my strategy would be for example to publish an unboxing video and then the very next night auction off everything in the box with something like a $1 starting bid. It might be fun to just try - especially if I don't have a lot invested in the collection. I think it can work but then I also have to get people to show up for it.

6-Pocket Scout White Polypropylene Archival Page (center loading)

$0.85

Buy Now

Blank Cards For 6-Pocket Scout Pack of 25

$2.00

Buy Now

Sample Set - includes 1 of each product fully loaded for the complete PAGE System

$8.00

Buy Now

This weekend after taking a truckload of stuff to my sisters and a second to my brothers we are about done going through my mom's house. We met with two different estate / auction companies Saturday to talk things over. I am hoping that I have one more weekend of sorting and boxing before we can let one of them take it from here. As some of you know cleaning out your parents house is gut wrenching at times but it's also just a lot of hard work.