08-18-2008, 07:43 AM
There is a new web startup that can offer unlimited free appraisals for almost any item.
Say you are clearing out your attic or garage and run across some items you think may be worth something. The first thing everybody will tell you is "check on eBay to see what they are worth". Sometimes that works and sometimes not, for obvious reasons. The need for a better means to easily appraise items was the idea behind WikiValue.com
The site is wiki based (something like Wikipedia) and is intended to be a reference site not an auction site or classified ad listing. But there is a private message system that will allow for private transactions to initiate if people choose to do so. And dealers will be allowed to set up "store fronts" to sell items directly as well.
Here is a typical scenario. I'm helping my neighbor clean out his house to put it up for sale and we find a number of interesting old items. One is an old camera that looks like it may be valuable. We go to WikiValue.com and look up old cameras but find nothing that matches so we register and list the item. A few knowledgeable people find the listing and fill in some details about when it was made, how many are around and so on. Other people post comments and provide opinions on what they think the camera may be worth, based on what they have seen at auctions or flea markets or whatever.
I get a couple of private messages from people making me offers, but decide to sell it locally on Craigslist instead. Now even though that camera has come and gone, the listing remains on WikiValue forever for other people to reference.
Although the site has been under development for some time, it has just gone live within the past few days. There really is not hardly anything listed yet and there is still some work to do. It's free to look and free to post and there is even an offer to dealers to jump on board early to help out and get free ad placements.
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Say you are clearing out your attic or garage and run across some items you think may be worth something. The first thing everybody will tell you is "check on eBay to see what they are worth". Sometimes that works and sometimes not, for obvious reasons. The need for a better means to easily appraise items was the idea behind WikiValue.com
The site is wiki based (something like Wikipedia) and is intended to be a reference site not an auction site or classified ad listing. But there is a private message system that will allow for private transactions to initiate if people choose to do so. And dealers will be allowed to set up "store fronts" to sell items directly as well.
Here is a typical scenario. I'm helping my neighbor clean out his house to put it up for sale and we find a number of interesting old items. One is an old camera that looks like it may be valuable. We go to WikiValue.com and look up old cameras but find nothing that matches so we register and list the item. A few knowledgeable people find the listing and fill in some details about when it was made, how many are around and so on. Other people post comments and provide opinions on what they think the camera may be worth, based on what they have seen at auctions or flea markets or whatever.
I get a couple of private messages from people making me offers, but decide to sell it locally on Craigslist instead. Now even though that camera has come and gone, the listing remains on WikiValue forever for other people to reference.
Although the site has been under development for some time, it has just gone live within the past few days. There really is not hardly anything listed yet and there is still some work to do. It's free to look and free to post and there is even an offer to dealers to jump on board early to help out and get free ad placements.
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