Price the find before you buy it.
For people in thrift stores, at Goodwill, at garage sales, yard sales, estate sales and flea markets. Worth names the thing from a photo, gives a range, and checks what it is listed for right now, new and used.
The App Store listing is not up yet.
What you might do with the number
- Flip it
- Know what it is worth
- See if it is cheaper elsewhere
There is no staged thrift screenshot on this page. The flow is the same one on thehome page: one photo, a range, then the fact that would move it. Estimates, not offers.
Where you are standing.
- Thrift stores and Goodwill
- The sticker was put there by the store. Condition, missing parts and whether it works are the things the sticker cannot settle.
- Garage and yard sales
- The price is usually what the seller hopes for, or what they remember paying. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a market.
- Estate sales
- A company priced the house. The tag is their ask. Many sales post a markdown schedule on the door. Read that sign. Do not assume a discount that is not written down.
- Flea markets
- A dealer’s price, with more room on some tables and none on others. The question is the same: what is this, and what is it listed for elsewhere.
Three reasons to take the photo.
Collectors use Worth on cards, watches, cars, houses and wine. The same photo works on a jacket, a toy, a pan or a console. Everyday things are not a lesser case.
- Flip it
- You are buying to resell on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari or Facebook Marketplace. The range has to clear the sticker, the marketplace’s current fee, shipping and your time. Look the fee up on that marketplace. It changes, and this page will not invent one.
- Know what it is worth
- You are not listing anything. You want a name and a range before you put it in the bag, leave it on the table, or let it go.
- Buy it cheaper
- The same object may be less, new, at a retailer. Worth checks live asking prices, new and used, so a “deal” that sits next to the Walmart price is visible before you pay.
Live prices, new and used.
The market check is not an eBay-and-Amazon search with the other stores left out. It looks at what retailers and marketplaces are asking right now. A Walmart or Target listing, a StockX ask, an eBay listing, a Poshmark or Mercari listing, a Facebook Marketplace post: included when the search finds them. New and used are both in scope.
What comes back are asking prices. Someone’s hope, or a store’s shelf price. Not a record of what the last one sold for. Asking prices can pull the top of a Worth range down. They do not push a price up.
If the search finds nothing solid, the answer says so by not pretending. A thin result is a thin result. Add a clearer photo of the label or the model number and run it again.
Questions.
- Is Worth a thrift store value app?
- Yes. Photograph the find in the aisle at a thrift store, Goodwill or a flea market. Worth names it and gives a price range in seconds, then says what would sharpen the number: a model code, a flaw, a missing piece.
- Is this a what is it worth app?
- That is the whole product. One photo in, a name and a range out, for a collectible or for an ordinary thing: clothes, shoes, kitchen gear, toys, a console. The number is an estimate, not an offer and not an appraisal.
- Can I use Worth as a thrift flip price checker?
- Yes. Use the range as the ceiling you are buying under, then subtract the marketplace fee, shipping and the time to list it on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari or Facebook Marketplace. If the sticker is already at the top of the range, there is no flip in it.
- Does it work as a garage sale price app?
- Yes. Point it at the thing on the driveway or the table. You get a range to set next to the sticker before you haggle or walk. Yard sales are the same problem.
- Can it estimate estate sale value?
- It estimates the object from a photo. The tag is the sale company’s ask, which may or may not be close. Worth does not know that company’s markdown schedule, so read the sign at the door. A photo of a maker’s mark, a label or the whole set is what moves the estimate.
- Does the price check only cover eBay and Amazon?
- No. The live market check looks up what retailers and marketplaces are asking right now, new and used. That can include Walmart, Target, StockX, eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace and other pages the search finds. It reports asking prices, not sold prices, and it only shows what the search actually returned.
- Will it tell me where the same thing is cheaper?
- It shows live asking prices and links out to places that sell it, so you can compare the sticker in your hand with what a store or a marketplace is asking. It does not promise a cheaper listing exists. If the new price is already close to the used one, the photo did its job by saying so.
From the journal.
All articlesWhat to check before you flip a thrift find
A thrift-store sticker is not a profit. How to identify the item, read its condition, and leave room for fees before you list it on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari or Facebook Marketplace.
Pricing a garage sale find before you haggle
A garage or yard sale sticker is what the seller hopes for. How to tell a real discount from a used thing that costs about the same as new, before you haggle or walk.
Estate sale finds: what the tag leaves out
An estate sale tag is the company’s ask. What to look at on the object itself, and how a photo gives you a second number before you buy a find.