I built a antiques pricing database (WorthPoint-style) — is it worth anything?

[George Bain]

Hello everyone,​

A while back, I started building a WorthPoint-style website focused on antiques — with the idea of helping collectors, resellers, and enthusiasts look up historical prices, descriptions, etc.

I ended up creating a large database with hundreds of thousands of pages, but never fully launched the site due to time constraints and SEO challenges. A lot of time and effort went into the backend, data structuring, and page generation — but it’s just sitting there unused.

I'm wondering:

• Is this something that could be sold?
• Has anyone sold something like this before (unfinished, but with solid groundwork)?

I’ve looked at places like Flippa and Acquire, but wasn’t sure if it was worth paying to list — especially since it’s pre-revenue and never had active users.

any help appreciated, thanks!

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

It will depend how unfinished it is!

I could use something like this next to some of my businesses (complementary, not really a revenue generator), however, I would not want to invest much, especially if it needs a lot of work.

 

[George Bain]

It will depend how unfinished it is!

I could use something like this next to some of my businesses (complementary, not really a revenue generator), however, I would not want to invest much, especially if it needs a lot of work.

Thanks for your interest! There’s already a lot of data in the site, but honestly, it would need millions of records like WorthPoint to really get big. I stopped adding more data because SEO was really hard and I couldn’t get the site to grow. The base is there though, and someone with good SEO skills could take it much further. I will send you a message

 

[fisicx]

The base is there though, and someone with good SEO skills could take it much further. I will send you a message

SEO is going to be very hard. I built a similar site for someone years ago and they just couldn’t get it to rank. The problem was everything was in the database and Google can’t see the data. We needed to build thousands of pages - one for each item to give Google something to index.

Spend money on marketing however and you can get decent traction.

Worthpoint scrapes their data - totally different model to yours.