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What is Something Worth When No One Knows How to Use It?

What is Something Worth When No One Knows How to Use It?

A collector’s life is filled with regrets, a statement that most likely applies to everyone whether a collector or not. Not clipping and saving the hundreds f newspaper cartoon strips and panels with a collecting focus that I read over the years is …

Buyers, Sellers Embrace Estate Sale Comeback

Buyers, Sellers Embrace Estate Sale Comeback

 According to EstateSales.NET, more than 2,000 sales will take place across the U.S. in late August. Photo credit: EstateSales.NET

Nearly six months ago, as COVID-19 restrictions kicked in, many in our industry wondered how long we’d have to wait for…

WorthPoint® Among Atlanta Inno’s 50 On Fire!

WorthPoint® Among Atlanta Inno’s 50 On Fire!

WorthPoint recently won a coveted spot among Atlanta’s “50 On Fire” tech companies for 2020.
In their early summer announcement of honorees, Atlanta Inno – the city’s leading tech business news site – named WorthPoint as a company that’s “crushing i…

Survey Says: WorthPoint Appreciates Member Responses

Survey Says: WorthPoint Appreciates Member Responses

Thank you to those who responded to our poll earlier this year about the Worthopedia Search function. We received feedback from more than 1,000 members, which gave us good guidance on how to improve and refine that part of the site.
We’re going to c…

Dealing with Dealers (Part Two)

Dealing with Dealers (Part Two)

DISCLAIMER: This image is in belated recognition of Sherlock Holmes Day, which was May 22 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday). It is Sidney Paget’s depiction of the death struggle between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls…

Want to Buy an Antique/Resale Store?

Want to Buy an Antique/Resale Store?

Long time Insider contributor and friend of WorthPoint, “Auction Wally,” Walt Kolenda has made the difficult choice to sell his brick and mortar antique store, “Curiosities of Cape Ann,” in historical Gloucester, Maine. After spending the last five …

The Ten Commandments of Pricing

The Ten Commandments of Pricing

Wayne Jordan explains why antiques dealers should always be adapting their pricing tactics to get the best profits.A perilous mindset has trickled into the antiques business in the past few years: it’s that the business has fallen on tough times and pr…