'I make 35k a month selling clothes on live stream auctions - including a dress worn by Beyoncé '
Meeting whilst working in designer fashion houses one couple quit their jobs and now earn up to £35k a month from one singular income stream earned on Vinted’s biggest rival app.
Using their well trained eye for a steal to sniff out the best designer gear across Europe, Bethany Slack and Austin Aubrey, known as The luxury pickers, now make a small fortune filming themselves showing their hauls to thousands on Whatnot.
Starting off on e-bay, Depop and Vinted the 30-year-old and 39-year-old now earn the most on the livestream app. The livestreams are set up like an auction, with each item starting at £1, before prices snowball and sell hundreds or even thousands of pounds to their following of over 15,000.
One of their standout deals was a designer dress worn by Beyoncé which they sold for half its retail price. Bethany told Manchester Evening News: "One of our best finds or deals would be an Alice Terperley Dress, worn by Beyoncé, which retails for over £800 and we sold it for £450 from bids that started at just £1 a few months ago.”
The pair spend their days rummaging through British charity shops and Parisian flee markets to find Mulberry, Chanel and Gucci at dirt cheap prices.They have a range of designer gear “including handbags from Louis Vuitton, Mulberry, Fendi and Dior - with all bids starting at £1.”
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the UK, Europe and North America, and recently had a major surge of downloads during the US TikTok ban. Since launching in the UK in 2022, their European community has grown 400 per cent and globally Whatnot has reached £2.3 billion in livestream sales as of 2024.
The couple previously worked for Gucci, Vivienne Westwood and Jimmy Choo before they realised