 Whatnot is known for their auctions, but did you know that they have a marketplace where you can buy it now? Let's get started. Hey, mullabuddies, thanks for watching. My little pony. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. But before we get into what this video is about, I have a special announcement. Huge thing happening tonight. Rachel Strickland over on Whatnot. I have an art piece that is getting auctioned off, so you guys can now go pre-bid on that item if you want. Also, there are tons of amazing items that are gonna be auctioned off for autism, and I'm gonna let Rachel Strickland tell you about that. This is the opening video for her Whatnot show, so I'm just gonna play that for you. And then at the end of this video, I am gonna show you everything that is pre-loaded and ready to go into her catalog, so you guys can go and pre-bid if you want. And also, you can see my art piece, so stay tuned to the end for that. Go over to Rachel Strickland, all one word, lowercase letters on Whatnot, and bookmark this show for tonight, 9 p.m. I miss you. This is the one show this year that you do not want to miss. This is gonna be the most epic art auction you've ever been a part of. I have art pieces submitted from across the country from all of your favorite resellers, YouTubers, artisans that are truly masters of their craft have mailed in pieces with 100% of the proceeds from this auction going directly to team Collins on the move and their ambitions for fundraising for the Autism Society of Greater Orlando. This is going to be a Rockstar auction. You can go home with a piece that is custom-made created. What's better than autograph? Something that someone painted or made with their hands. I love it. Get ready for this one. Did you know that you could do this on Whatnot? I'm guessing quite a few of you do not know about this feature. I'm also gonna give you some Whatnot tips and tricks, so let's get started. All right, Bola Buddies, I just wanted to pop on here and show you something new that I'm playing around with on Whatnot. But for starters, if you're not buying on Whatnot, definitely consider it. You can also sell on Whatnot. Both of my referral links are down below. If you use the buyer's link, you're gonna get $15 to shop. That is free money. You can go use that money to buy something to resell. I also have a seller's link down below. If you click on the seller's link, that is gonna tell them that I referred you as a seller and you may be more likely to get accepted quicker. So make sure when they ask you to show your inventory that you show your inventory because that is a key factor in acceptance as well. All right, let's get started here. All right, Bola Buddies. So this is my Buy It Now section on My Whatnot. So these are just items that I have picked out, just picking out some things that I can list cheap and give you guys a good discount on. And I'm throwing them in the Buy It Now section and I'm gonna see what happens. And I actually had a sale. Somebody actually came in and organically found my item, I think by using the search bar. So we're gonna talk about that also, but this is my Buy It Now section. Another great thing about adding items to the Buy It Now, if you're not having a show, you are going to stay relevant and active on what not. So let me give you an example, like this just popped up in my notifications feed that Donatello listed two new items. So when I list new items, that is gonna go out to my followers under the notifications and then they can click on that and check out what I have listed that is new. So let's say you are a seller on what not and you do live shows, but you are also thinking that in between shows, you wanna have some items in your Buy It Now section and or you wanna preload your Buy It Nows for future shows. Okay, Bola Buddies, I'm gonna showcase Donatello if you're not following her, definitely go follow her on what not. This is her Buy It Now section, but I'm gonna show you how you can sort and do different things once you're in the Buy It Now section of a what not users marketplace store. And she does have some different things available and we're gonna talk about those as the video goes on, but you can do best match, you can do lowest to highest, highest to lowest and also newly listed items. So it's just like searching within a store on eBay. Now, I do not think that they do combined shipping when you're on the marketplace. So you will probably be paying individual shipping based on the shipping cost shown. I don't think they bundle. So for example, this jewelry box right here, it's a two pound mystery jewelry box. She has some photos just to give you an example. She has six available. You can go in and hit that Buy It Now, but if you buy more than one, I'm not sure if it's gonna combine the shipping because this is a multi-quantity listing or not, or if you're gonna be paying separate shipping on each one. Not really sure how the shipping works on the marketplace items. So keep that in mind when you are doing the Buy It Now. It should tell you at checkout what you're paying for shipping. Here's another lot that she has. This is a crafter's lot. Again, it's probably gonna be just her choice miscellaneous pieces, $25 for 35 pieces. I think she has five of these available. So Donatella sells to resellers. So those are her bundles, but she also has some other things listed individually like these three Lego mini figures for 30 bucks. And she had a plush and some other things. You guys can go and check her out. She is Donatella on what not. Okay, so I told you guys that one of my items sold and I'm gonna pop up how the fee breakdown worked for the Buy It Now. And we'll kinda discuss why I think the Buy It Now section is good, okay? So we're gonna talk about that. I'm also going to show you how people are searching on what not for items in the Buy It Now sections. So I guess the main thing I'm saying here is yes, what not is known for live options, but did you know that they have a marketplace? Okay, I'm gonna show you how to search for an item in a Buy It Now section. I'm gonna use my our generation dog right here. I'm gonna go down and at the bottom, I'm gonna hit search. And when you hit search, it's gonna pull up top. Once you do that, you're gonna go over to one to the right and it's gonna say products. And once you click on products, it's gonna take you into the Buy It Now section of what not. So once you're in there, you can sort just like I showed you on Donatella's, but I was like, why is this TY or this Thai beanie baby there? It's the fifth generation. So the word generation caused this to pop up in my search. You can sort by best match, lowest to highest. You can search by category, by format. So there's different ways you can search once you go to the item you're looking for. It's really, really just basically another marketplace that you can use just like eBay, Poshmark, and Mercari and all of the other platforms. Put the item in the search and the items get pulled up. All right, so let's take a look at the item I sold and the fee breakdown and why I think the Buy It Now section is pretty cool. So my goal right now is to bring people to my what not. So I am putting good deals in my store. So this item was a $6 item plus the buyer paid the shipping. What you're seeing is the what not breakdown. So I sold the item for $6. The commission was 8%, which was 48 cents that went to what not. The payment processing fee is 2.9% plus a 30 cent fee. So that was 62 cents. So my total earnings and payout on this item was $4.90. I sourced this item for less than a dollar. So did I make crazy big money on this? No, but I made, you know, three or four bucks. That's a nice profit. And somebody got a good deal, which is going to help build my following on what not. Another option that I've seen people do that you may not know about is they have Buy It Now shows. So technically, if I wanted to go live on what not and just come on and chit chat with you guys and not do auction style. And I just want to hang out and let you guys look at what was in my Buy It Now section. I could totally do that. If you are live, you do get the discounted shipping. So let's say I'm live having a show and somebody buys something from my Buy It Now and then they buy another item from my Buy It Now and another item from my Buy It Now, they're going to get discounted shipping because I am live doing a Buy It Now show. There are sellers that just do Buy It Now shows. They don't do live auctions. They just come on, have their catalog preloaded and say this is what I have available if you guys want to buy anything, if you have questions, if you want me to show you something. So that is another option. If you're not comfortable doing auction style, you can do Buy It Now shows. So something else to consider when you're preloading your catalog. Let me know if you have any questions down in the comments. Did you know that these are options? I also see other sellers that go into thrift stores and they literally are shopping for you. So they're holding up the item in the thrift store and they're like, does anybody want me to run this? So they look at the price and let's say the item is $3. They're like, I'm going to start this at $5. Is anybody interested? And then they'll run it right there in the thrift store, put it in their cart if somebody buys it and then they ship it to you. So people, it's like personal shoppers. There are so many ways that you can use whatnot. Definitely check out the app. It's a fun app. Again, down below, there's my referral code. You can get $15 to shop when you join with that link. So do you guys want to see what I drew? So Rachel reached out to me and she's like, hey, do you want to be a part of this? And I'm like, you want me to draw something? I'm like, okay, so I decided to do it. And I kind of traced. I'm not going to lie. So I had the original graphic before it was colored in. The gal that made this for me sent it to me just traced out. So I printed that off larger and then I put it behind this canvas. So the actual, that part is traced. And then I did paint it all by myself. All by myself, I painted it just like a third grader. So this is my Bolo Buddies Owl and this is Olo. But if you look at the Owl, if you flip this upside down, I don't know if you guys know, but there is my Bolo Buddies logo. So it's kind of like a hidden picture, right? And this is going to be what she is going to auction off for me. So if anybody is interested in this, definitely go over and check it out. But I am sure there is going to be so many amazing items. All right. So I told you guys tonight, 9pm Eastern Standard Time auction for autism over on Rachel Strickland's what not channel right there at the bottom. You can see it. It's all one word, lowercase letters. These are all of the items that are available right now for pre-bid. If you click the pre-bid, that means that you have a bid on the item and that is what it will start at. If you don't know, you can pre-bid on items that are loaded to catalogs before the show on any show. That's not just for this particular fundraiser. There's my item, you guys. There it is, starting bid is going to be $20 for my Bolo Buddies Owl painting. So if anybody wants to go pre-bid, by all means do that. I hope it at least gets one bid. You guys, this is to support autism. I am not an artist, but I wanted to submit something to show support for this awesome fundraiser. And I hope that some of you guys will go over there and maybe bid on my item, but if not my item, something else because there are some incredible, incredible items that are gonna be showcased on her show tonight. So go book market and thanks you guys so much for the support. She also has a YouTube channel. Please go check her out here. Still learning about this, playing around with it. Let me know if you have any feedback. I am newer to whatnot and this is a feature that I am adding. So if you're already using this feature, please let me know down in the comments. Be sure to check out some of my other videos. I mostly talk about BOLO items, items to be on the lookout for, items you can buy low and sell high. This is a reseller channel and I basically teach. I teach you how to source and what to look for and I would love for you to check out another video. There's gonna be some videos popping up right now on up here and there's gonna be a subscribe button in one of these places. If you could subscribe and like and comment and share that would be amazing and thanks for watching.