From attic boxes to inherited collections: photograph your stuff and find out what it's actually worth, free
Start Valuing Your StuffEvery home is full of unanswered questions. The china in the cabinet no one uses. The boxes from your parents' house. The record collection, the old tools, the jewelry drawer, the toys you saved. What is all this stuff actually worth?
Most people never find out — because traditional answers are expensive or exhausting. Professional appraisers charge $100-$400 per session and make sense only when you already know something is valuable. Researching items one by one means hours of guessing at search terms for things you can't name. So the boxes stay sealed, the donations go out the door unexamined, and genuinely valuable items slip away for pennies at yard sales.
This tool flips the economics: valuing your stuff is free and takes seconds per item. Photograph anything, and the AI identifies it, checks real market sales data, and tells you what it would realistically sell for today. Value one item or a hundred — there's no cost, no account, and no limit.
The most expensive mistake isn't selling low — it's giving away high. A quick scan before the donation run has saved people thousands on items they assumed were worthless.
Dividing a parent's belongings among siblings goes smoother when values are objective. Free per-item valuations help estates get distributed — and taxed — accurately.
Moving to a smaller home means triaging decades of possessions. Knowing what's worth selling individually versus donating in bulk turns an overwhelming job into a sequenced plan.
Most homeowners are underinsured on contents because they've never valued them. A photo inventory with estimates documents your stuff before you ever need to make a claim.
Our AI-powered scanner finds accurate market values in seconds
Start anywhere — the attic box, the china cabinet, the garage shelf. Items with names, marks, or unusual quality are the best first candidates.
Photograph the whole item in good light, plus any labels, signatures, or maker's marks. Each scan takes seconds.
The AI identifies each item and searches real sales data — eBay, auctions, and marketplaces — for what comparable items actually sell for.
Use the estimates to triage: sell the valuable pieces individually, batch the mid-range, donate the rest — with documentation for taxes.
Signed, labeled, and branded items — pottery marks, jewelry hallmarks, furniture labels, instrument headstocks — are where outsized value concentrates. Always check bottoms and backs.
Vintage electronics, tools, toys, and kitchenware often have collector markets their owners never suspect. Age plus original condition is a powerful combination.
Original packaging, manuals, and complete sets multiply value — sometimes 2-5x. Never separate a set or discard boxes before checking what completeness is worth.
Coins, stamps, jewelry, watches, and trading cards pack the most value per cubic inch and are the easiest items to misjudge by eye. Scan them individually.
Sentimental value and market value are different numbers. Heavy, well-made, solid-wood, all-metal items usually outperform delicate decorative ones people assume are precious.
Honest condition assessment matters: chips, repairs, missing pieces, and wear can halve values. The AI reads visible condition from your photos so estimates stay realistic.
Categories that most often surprise people during home valuations.
Gold content alone often exceeds expectations
Pokemon, baseball, and TCG cards from childhood
Silver coinage, proof sets, and error coins
Teak, walnut, and designer pieces
First pressings of jazz, rock, and blues
Star Wars, LEGO, tin toys, sealed anything
Film cameras, receivers, synthesizers
Sterling flatware and rare patterns especially
The average American home contains roughly 300,000 items, and at most a handful of them have ever been professionally valued. The math never worked: when an appraisal costs $150 an hour, valuing ordinary household possessions costs more than most of them are worth. So the default for generations was guessing — and guessing has a terrible track record.
Estate sale professionals tell the same story constantly: the family threw out the 'old junk' and kept the 'valuable' reproduction. Studies of donation and resale behavior suggest households routinely give away items worth hundreds or thousands because nothing about them looked special. Value literacy was a professional skill, priced accordingly.
Online marketplaces made prices public, but identification remained the barrier. You can look up anything on eBay — if you know it's 'Heisey glassware' and not just 'old glass.' For the categories where value hides (pottery marks, silver hallmarks, furniture labels, first pressings), naming the thing correctly is most of the game.
AI photo valuation removes that barrier for the first time. When identification is free and instant, the rational strategy changes: value everything before it leaves your house. The five minutes it takes to scan a shelf of inherited items is the cheapest insurance against the thousand-dollar giveaway.
Scan the high-density categories first: jewelry drawer, coin jar, card boxes, records, and anything signed or labeled. These hold the most value per minute of effort.
Estate liquidators price for speed, not maximums. Knowing your top 20 items' values first lets you negotiate their handling — or sell them separately yourself.
Scanned estimates create a defensible record for charitable deduction values — the IRS requires documentation for donated items, and 'thrift shop value' guesses leave money unclaimed.
A practical rule: items estimated above $100 get sold individually; $25-$100 get batched into lots; below that, donate with documentation. It keeps the project finite.
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