now.<\/em><\/p>\nThe auction room is set up around a chat room and a live feed of the current item up for bid and upcoming items. Standby items are added to the mix if you or another buyer decide to bid on them.<\/p>\n
Yours and all other buyer\/sellers’ avatars bounce up and down in anticipation as bids are announced by the auctioneer standing in front of a themed room, like this intellectual room for the “New Age” auction!<\/p>\n
Move your cursor above the avatars to learn who they are and click to read their profiles. When someone types a comment in the live chat, it also appears as a speech bubble above their avatar’s head!<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> Simply sitting in an auction is entertaining enough, and there’s always at least one live auction you can enter without having to actually buy or sell anything to participate.<\/p>\nThe noises (chimes for a new auction, a thud for a bid and the celebratory thump of a gavel for a winner) are smile-worthy on lunch breaks spent at your desk, too!<\/p>\n
<\/span>Reason #2: Immediate Gratification for Sellers<\/span><\/h2>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file-2.jpg\")
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Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> Listing and waiting for an item to sell on another online marketplace can be mentally exhaustive and frustrating. But on Tophatter, you can witness the sale of your item as its happening during an auction and when concluded, feel the immediate gratification of what it sold for in mere minutes.<\/p>\nThat’s why Tophatter is a lot like an online garage sale, because it feels like you’re getting money in your pocket ASAP.<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> The immediate gratification of selling something online is the reward for a new behavior that will influence your habit of listing frequently online. Like any habit or behavior, the more successful it feels the more you are more likely to engage in it.<\/p>\nSo if you continue to have what are called “small wins” with selling on Tophatter, you’ll want to expand and continue to grow to reap the benefits of what immediate sales can do for your personal or business income.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Reason #3: You Can Sell Just About Anything!<\/span><\/h2>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file-3.jpg\")
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Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> Selling on Tophatter is less pressure than the average marketplace, simply because you can list and sell just about anything — including delectable goodies like fudge, jelly, tea and muffins shown above!<\/p>\nWhether you’re Betty Crocker gone digital or a curator of the best vintage duds this side of the auction block, you can list anything that tickles your fancy or which happens to be lying around your home.<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> You don’t need to establish a “brand” of curated items that buyers return to and expect a level of quality and selection, so since you’re freed from the restrictions of setting up a personal shop, it\u00a0means when thrift store shopping or even perusing your own garage sales and flea markets, you can expand your for-sale inventory by indulging in pieces beyond your Etsy or Ebay shop’s normal selection.<\/p>\nAnd as I’m sure you all agree, more thrifting = more fun!<\/p>\n
<\/span>Reason #4: Promote Your Online Shop<\/span><\/h2>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file-4.jpg\")
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Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> Tophatter encourages taking advantage of your profile for free publicity. You can be transparent about your Etsy, Ebay or other online marketplace shop.<\/p>\nPart of the reason selling on Tophatter is a win-win situation for any kind of seller is that you take advantage of it to sell goods beyond your normal stock, or simply to cross-list what might not have sold in your normal shop at a buy-it-now price faster and easier through an auction.<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> You’ll get additional traffic to your other online shop simply through sharing its URL on Tophatter, and unlike Facebook where you have to now pay for your page posts this added bonus is absolutely free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/span>Reason #5: You Can Be an Awesome Avatar<\/span><\/h2>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file-5.jpg\")
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Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> The Tophatter experience is a lot like the Sims video game, where avatar characters rule the world and you create their reality with a few clicks of your mouse.<\/p>\nYour avatar is not only the photo of your profile page, but the “person” you see in the auction room when the bidding begins. You can click other avatars to read their profiles, almost as if you were in a room full of people introducing yourself through a computer screen.<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> You can change the color of your hair everyday without having to worry about it being over processed!<\/p>\n<\/span>Reason #6: Livechat with the Buyers of Your Goods<\/span><\/h2>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file-6.jpg\")
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Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> You’re able to communicate with the potential buyers of your goods in the livechat feature of the auction. So if a buyer has a question, you can immediately answer it knowing that you’re providing the most full service experience for a solid sale.<\/p>\nAdded Bonus:<\/strong> The auctioneer isn’t promoting your good beyond the price and its estimated value (as set by you). So like Nancy Richardson is communicating in the photo above, you can add your 10 cents of salesperson persuasion.<\/p>\nYou’d be surprised how a few ideas can spark interest in an item, or even the suggestion of a “free gift with purchase” \u00a0communicated in the chatroom if you’re feeling it could rev up a bidding war.<\/p>\n
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Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> Like prepping for a garage sale, it’s fun to imagine just what of your knickknacks, spare electronics and unwanted fashions and jewelry will sell. Like they say, one woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure.<\/p>\nSo while you may have a Google Android tablet lying around with no use at all to you, there’s definitely a Tophatter user just ready to snatch it up and put $50 cool ones in your pocket, without you having to sit around your driveway all day!<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> Your living quarters get cleaned, and it’s not just because you took a bunch of bags to donate to Goodwill. This time around, you cleaned house to fill house in another way: Your bank account!<\/p>\n<\/span>Reason #8: Invite Friends to Get Free Money!<\/span><\/h2>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file-8.jpg\")
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\u00a0Why It’s Fun:<\/strong> Spamming friends isn’t actually that much fun, but at least you’re spamming them with the offer for $5 credit to use on Tophatter.<\/p>\nIf they use that $5, then you get $5 yourself. It’s a pay-it-forward model that when fulfilled, is a win-win situation for all.<\/p>\n
Added Bonus:<\/strong> With so many items going for $5 – $20 on Tophatter anyway, accumulating enough credit to buy a few goodies for yourself shouldn’t take longer than simply uploading your Gmail contacts and pressing send. Magic!<\/p>\n
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If your email inbox looks anything like mine, you’ve got a stockpile of invites to join the “next best” online selling marketplace.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/sammydvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/unnamed-file.png\")
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