Do you have any valuables lying around your house? In today's economy people are looking for ways to get ahead although most often forget or simply don't know that they could have valuable items long forgotten in their attic, cellar or storage places. Many items we thought as toys or 'knick-knacks' years ago could actually be worth something today. What any of it is worth depends on the demand and frankly, who's collecting it. A website has been collecting and displaying items trying to figure out the worth of these forgotten gems. Whatitsworthnow.com was started because a father and son team decided that some items they had collected over the years needed to go, although they thought they could be worth something to right person. Auggie Falzarano, knowing a little bit about building websites thought it would be a good idea to post these items online and get opinions of other enthusiasts. What him and his father Bart found was that other were trying to figure out the same thing.
"We started getting comments on items that people were looking for the value just as we were." Auggie explained. That's when they decided to start researching the items to figure out what they could on their own. Many items are still a mystery as to their worth although they have found some values for plenty of others. Bart told us about a collector in France, " We got an email asking us to remove the foil from our Millennium Korbel Champagne just to see the metal 'cap' that covered the cork. This French Champagne 'cap' collector even sent us $200 just for us to pull the foil off and see if it was the cap he was searching for. I turned out it wasn't. He told us to keep the money for our trouble and our now unsellable bottle of Korbel Champagne."
The website grows almost daily with new posts and new visitors sending in their items asking Auggie and Bart to find out what they are worth. "When we get an email with pictures and descriptions of items, we post them to the website. Right now we do it all for free. I think eventually we will need to charge to post other people's items simply because we are starting to get a lot of people sending in stuff." You send your items in to get posted and hopefully valued at post@whatitsworthnow.com.