The Journal.
Plain guides to what things are worth and why. For collectors, and for anyone pricing a thrift find, a garage sale or an estate sale before they buy, sell or walk away.
What actually moves a used car’s price
Two cars of the same model and year can be thousands apart. The handful of facts that explain the gap, in rough order of weight, and which of them a photo can show.
How to work an estate sale
A reseller’s estate-sale strategy: read the discount schedule, walk the house once, and buy the object, not the tag.
How to price for eBay, Poshmark, and Mercari
Price from sold listings of the same object in the same condition, then let fees, shipping, and the marketplace’s audience change the ask.
Reselling fees, without a fake formula
What marketplace fees actually are: commission, payment processing, shipping, returns, and promotions. Read the current schedule before you list.
What a photo can and can’t tell you about a house’s value
A picture from the street shows the style, the era and the upkeep of a house. It hides the three things that price it. How to read one, and what to ask next.
When buying used beats buying new
Where a used object is the sensible buy, where it is a safety problem, and how to compare it with new without a fake discount.
Fill level and storage: how a bottle keeps its value
A wine’s label says what it was. The fill level, the cork and the storage history say what it is now. How buyers read an old bottle from the outside.
What complete in box actually means
A complete-in-box collectible includes the parts that came with it. How to check toys, games, and sets, and when a loose piece is the honest buy.