Look up what an item is worth

Get an estimate with links to the sales and listings behind it, then decide whether to use it.

Step by step

Open an item and make sure its maker and catalog number are right. They make the biggest difference to the estimate.
Under What might it be worth?, choose Estimate its value.
Check what it was looked up as, how confident the estimate is, and the price ranges for a used piece with no box and an excellent one with its box.
Open the source links to see whether each price is a finished sale or an asking price. If it lists other versions of the item, pick the one that matches yours.
Choose Look deeper for a more thorough search. Once a deeper estimate is done, Look again starts a fresh one.
To use a figure, choose the Use … as my value button for the range that fits. It uses the middle of that range and dates it today. You can always type your own value with Edit instead.

Your value stays yours

Estimates are worked out from prices online, and they're shown apart from your Current value. Collection totals and the insurance report's totals use your own values; the report can show estimates beside them.

How many lookups you get

Value estimates come with every plan, and with the free trial. If you're running low for the month, the page says how many are left. Using a recent estimate someone already looked up for the same item can be free, and a lookup that fails gives its turn back.

Value the whole collection

Open Stats & value → Value my whole collection with AI. It looks up every item you own that isn't archived and has no estimate, or one older than 90 days, and tells you how many that is before you start. It runs fastest with the page open but carries on in the background if you leave. Stop cancels the rest. If you run out of lookups for the month, start it again once they reset.