After spending hours on WhatNot today. Here's my thoughts on it and I hope eBay builds a better version of it.
WhatNot only gives you 10-20 seconds to bid (+ 10sec when someone bids), that's a very little time to decide if you want something or not. Sometimes I can't even see the item well due to the host only showing the front side of the item, one vtg clothing host tried to hide the flaw, I pointed out, then she's like "oh you're right, yeah this ones got a hole in it in the back, okay we're moving on to the next one". ??? Just because auction begins at $1, you shouldn't fool people like that.. so I can't imagine the post-bidding mess it's going to bring.
also people were keep asking for a rerun, because nobody can be decisive in a short amount of time. Almost like there should be a post-live auctioning feature. Anything that didn't sell live converts into normal 7d auction. and/or allow replay of the auction etc.
Also WhatNot doesn't have that bidding competition spirit, because they only have a pool of 2-3000 live viewers on their platform. The host is not excited, neither the buyers.
Also I'm not able to join multiple bidding rooms. Like I want to open 3-4 rooms and bid wherever the heck I want. I don't want to be stuck in one room only.
WhatNot also doesn't provide cross-platform. I don't want to kill my phone batteries watching live videos. I do that on my PC and multi-task.
Oh and you have to press Pay after you win bid(s) and they charge tax + $5 shipping fee on top of the item price. You can link your Paypal, which is good.
It's still growing concept, but meeeeh. Only positive side is you could ask questions live and get the answers on spot.
