If you are looking for a Whatnot alternative in Greece, the short answer is Gimme. Whatnot's list of seller countries does not include Greece, so as of November 2026 a seller in Greece cannot apply to sell there. Gimme is a live auction marketplace built for that gap. In Greece and Cyprus you can watch and bid in Greek or English, pay in euros, and sell collectibles, fashion and garage-sale finds on camera for a commission of 7% plus VAT. As of November 2026, selling on Gimme is by invitation. This guide compares the two on where each one works and what selling costs, explains how shipping and returns work on Gimme, and says who each one suits.
Can you sell on Whatnot from Greece?
Whatnot sells through live shows and through a marketplace, as its seller fees page describes them as of November 2026. For someone in Greece the question comes before any fee: can you apply to sell there at all?
Whatnot's help center lists the countries sellers can apply from. As of November 2026 that list is Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan as a limited pilot, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Greece is not on it. The same page says you apply from the country you are located in and open a separate account for each country you sell from, so the list is a real boundary and not a formality.
Lists like this change, and Whatnot may well add countries. Read its current page before you decide anything, and treat this paragraph as a dated snapshot. The practical position of a seller in Greece in November 2026 is simple: if you want a live auction audience and Whatnot cannot take your application, you need a platform that can.
What a good Whatnot alternative has to do
Live shopping looks simple from the outside, but a platform has to get several unglamorous things right before it is worth a seller's evenings. Bidding must be fair and fast. Money must reach the seller in a way they can use. Shipping must work where the seller and buyer actually live. The buyer needs a way out if the parcel is wrong.
For a seller in Greece there are two more tests. The first is language: a show hosted in Greek to Greek buyers reads more naturally when the interface around it is in Greek as well. The second is geography: euro pricing, fees you can work out before you sell, including the VAT on them, and shipping that works from where you are.
Use that list as a filter on any alternative you look at, including this one. The rest of this guide holds Gimme to it.
Gimme: live auctions built for Greece and Cyprus
Gimme is a live marketplace for collectibles, fashion and garage-sale finds. Sellers run a show on video, present items one at a time and sell them by auction or at a fixed price, and buyers watch, ask questions and bid while everyone sees the current price.
As of November 2026, accounts can be opened from Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria, while buying, selling and delivery work in Greece and Cyprus. The whole app, from the home page to checkout, is published in Greek and in English, and the two languages have their own addresses, so a Greek reader searching in Greek lands on a Greek page rather than a translated afterthought.
The categories are the ones that do well on camera: collectibles and rare finds, fashion, and garage sales where every item is one of a kind. You can sell as a business or as a private person. As of November 2026, selling is by invitation: you enter an invitation code to start seller onboarding, and you can ask Gimme for one through Help & contact.
How live bidding works on Gimme
Each item is opened with a countdown that the host chooses, from ten seconds up to a couple of minutes, and one of two timer modes. In a soft close, a bid in the final ten seconds pushes the end back to ten seconds from that bid, so nobody wins on a last-second trick and the price settles where real demand stops. In sudden death the clock simply runs out, which keeps a fast tray of small items moving.
Buyers who cannot watch every second can set a private maximum. Gimme then bids for them in the smallest steps needed to stay in front, up to that maximum and no further, and nobody else sees the number. A maximum is binding and can only be raised, so it should be an amount you are happy to pay. Some shows also take pre-bids before the item appears live.
Not everything needs an auction. A seller can set a fixed price instead, which suits items where the price is not in doubt and removes the risk of an item going for less than it is worth. Buyers see the shipping cost before they commit, in the same place as the price.
What selling costs: Gimme and Whatnot
Gimme charges a standard 7% commission, plus VAT on that commission, on completed sales. It is taken on the price of the item and never on the postage, and you are only charged when something sells. On a sale of €50 the commission is €3.50, and VAT is added to that figure, not to the item.
Greek VAT is added to the commission. A business with a VAT number from another EU country that has been confirmed in the EU's VIES register is not charged it and accounts for the VAT on its own return. There is one more cost outside Gimme's commission: the card payment provider charges a fee on the whole payment, item and postage together, which depends on the buyer's card and comes out of your proceeds.
As of November 2026, Whatnot's seller fees page describes a tiered commission. The rate depends on the category and on your total sales over each four-week period, and falls as those sales grow. Its headline rate, 3%, is a custom rate for its highest-volume sellers who work with a dedicated account manager, and it also describes time-limited promotional rates, such as 0% for new sellers. Like Gimme's, it is charged on the item price and not on shipping. VAT is added in the EU and the UK, and payment processing is charged separately.
As of November 2026, each market has its own rate card on that page, so read the one for the country you would sell from rather than a third-party calculator. To compare any two platforms fairly, add up everything each one takes from a typical sale of yours, including processing, and divide by the sale price. The platform with the lower headline commission is not always the cheaper one.
Shipping: one parcel per seller, paid once
On Gimme the shipping figure beside an item is not what that item would cost to post on its own. It is what it adds to the parcel you already have open with that seller. The first item shows the cost of the box, and the second often shows nothing, because it fits in the box you have already paid for.
A parcel stays open for three days from the first item you buy from a seller, and anything else you take from them in that time joins it, even from a different show on a different evening. If the seller has already posted the parcel, or you change your delivery address, the next item starts a new one and shows its own shipping cost. Each seller is a separate box, because sellers pack their own parcels. Whatever is shown before you commit is what you are charged.
For sellers, postage is kept whole: the postage the buyer paid is added to your earnings in full, with no commission taken from it, because you post the parcel at your own expense. When the seller adds tracking, it is recorded against the order, so both sides can see where the parcel is.
Returns and buyer protection
Buyers pay through the marketplace checkout, with the winning bid charged to the payment method on file. Keeping the sale inside the platform is what keeps a record of it, and the record is what makes protection possible.
When a parcel arrives, you check it against the listing before you confirm it. If something is wrong you can ask for a return from the order, and a return is open to you for as long as you have not accepted the parcel. It gives you your money back once the seller has the item back and accepts it. Confirming arrival, or saying nothing until the date shown on the order, accepts it, and an accepted order can no longer be returned or refunded. If a parcel has not arrived 14 days after it was posted, or the courier says it was delivered and it was not, you can report it, which opens a case the seller must answer.
The same rule protects sellers. A courier's delivery scan is evidence, not acceptance, and the seller is paid once the buyer accepts the parcel. That keeps payment tied to a parcel that actually arrived and was kept.
What sells well in live auctions
The items that do best on camera are the ones a buyer wants to see turned over in your hand. Collectibles, from records and toys to cards and rare finds, work because condition is the whole story and a live view shows it better than a photo. Fashion works when you show the label, the measurements and how the piece sits when it is worn.
Garage-sale finds work for a different reason: every item is one of a kind, so a buyer who hesitates loses it. That scarcity, together with the host's running commentary, is what keeps people watching the whole show. Group items into a coherent tray, and say the condition out loud, flaws included, before the bidding opens.
Price to the lowest amount you would be happy to accept once commission and postage are taken out, not to the figure you are hoping for. When few people are bidding, start at a fair opening price and let a soft close do the rest. A fixed price is the right tool for anything where you already know the number.
Whatnot or Gimme: which one fits you?
If you live in one of the countries Whatnot supports as of November 2026 and your buyers are mostly there, Whatnot is a real option. Compare the rate card for your market with the costs above. Nothing here is a criticism of it.
If you sell from Greece or Cyprus, the question is different, because as of November 2026 neither is on Whatnot's list of seller countries. Gimme is built for both: Greek and English, euros, the VAT on its commission worked out for you, and a commission that is easy to calculate.
The honest advice is to try it from the buyer's side first. Watch a few live shows, see how a soft close feels, look at the shipping figure before you bid. If it works as a buyer, you will know whether it can work as a seller.
How to get started on Gimme
To buy, browse the live shows, pick a category you like and open one. You can watch a show before you bid, and you are asked for anything still missing, such as a payment method, when you want to bid or buy.
To sell, as of November 2026 you need an invitation code, and you can ask for one through Help & contact. Seller onboarding then asks you to accept the seller rules, say whether you sell as a private person or a business, add your tax details if you are a business, and give the address returns should come back to. Then plan a short first show with a small, focused tray of items you can describe in a few sentences each, and rehearse the flow before you go live.
Gimme is new and still growing, and a Greek-language live auction audience is exactly what it is for. If you have been looking for a Whatnot alternative built for sellers in Greece, browse the live shows and start there.