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Sale X-Ray — is this estate sale worth going to?

Every week there are more estate sales, garage sales and online auctions than anyone can visit. Sale X-Ray looks at all the photos of a sale for you: add screenshots of its gallery, and FlipTip finds every item worth money, prices the best ones from real sold listings, tells you the most to pay — at an auction the max bid — and gives the sale a score, so Saturday morning starts at the right address.

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Example X-Ray

78Score

Worth a visit

Miller estate sale · Estate sale · Sat

≈ $2,140 resale value in the photos · 23 finds in 64 photos

Go straight for

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#1Seiko 6139-6002 chronographSure

14 real sales$385Pay at most$240

Pogue — check the crown and that the chrono resets

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#2Pyrex Butterprint mixing bowl set (4)Sure

31 real sales$72Pay at most$45

Tag $20 → buy at the tag

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#3Canon AE-1 Program + 50mm f/1.8Likely

40 real sales$185Pay at most$115

Listen for shutter squeal before you pay

How it works

Collect the photosOpen the sale online — EstateSales.NET, ShopGoodwill, HiBid, a Facebook or Craigslist post — and take screenshots while you scroll. Many small photos on one screenshot are fine; zoomed-in photos let FlipTip read labels and maker's marks.

Add them to Sale X-RayUp to 200 photos per sale. Tell FlipTip what kind of sale it is; for an auction, the buyer's premium, tax and shipping.

FlipTip looks at every photoEvery item worth money is spotted and named as exactly as the photo proves, with a used price range and its place in the photo. Price tags in the photos are read too.

The best finds get real pricesThe strongest finds are checked against real completed sales (in eBay countries) and you get the list to go straight for: value, the most to pay, the max bid, and a score for the whole sale.

What you get

A score for the sale, 0–100 — the resale value in the photos, weighed by how sure the identification is and whether real sales back the price. Go first, worth a visit, only if it is on your way, or skip.
Go straight for — the finds in order of value, each cut out of its photo, with the value, the most to pay (expected sale ÷ 1.6 — room for fees, shipping and a solid margin) and how sure the identification is.
Auctions: the max bid — after the buyer's premium, sales tax and shipping per item, so the hammer price leaves your margin.
Price tags read from the photos — when a tag or sticker is readable: buy at the tag, haggle, or too high.
My list for the sale day — star what you want, tick what you got and what was gone. Got it with the price you paid puts the item in your profit dashboard.
Compare sales — tick the sales you could go to and FlipTip puts them in order, best first.
Real sold prices for the top 15 finds — from real completed sales in eBay countries; elsewhere, estimates for your local marketplaces.
Up to 20 sales a week, up to 200 photos each.
From your browser too — on a computer, paste or drop screenshots straight in.

Estate sales and auctions post their photos days before they open, and that is where most of a reseller's week goes: scrolling galleries of hundreds of photos to decide which sale deserves the early morning. Sale X-Ray does that scroll for you and answers the two questions that matter — is this sale worth going to, and what do I go straight for.

It is honest about what a photo can and cannot tell: names are only as exact as the photo proves, every find shows how sure the identification is, and condition, completeness and authenticity still need checking at the sale — the 📷 button on every find opens the scanner for exactly that.

Sale X-Ray is part of the Dealer plan — for resellers who source at estate sales and auctions every week. Every new account tries it free: the first 5 days of the free trial are on the Dealer plan.

Questions

Is this estate sale worth going to?

Add screenshots of its photo gallery to Sale X-Ray. FlipTip finds every item worth money, prices the best ones, and gives the sale a score from 0 to 100 — with the list of what to go straight for and the most to pay for each.

Which sites does it work with?

Any: Sale X-Ray reads the photos you add, so screenshots from EstateSales.NET, ShopGoodwill, HiBid, LiveAuctioneers, MaxSold, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist or an auction house's own site all work. Nothing is taken from those sites by FlipTip itself.

How do I work out my max bid with a buyer's premium?

Start from what the item really sells for, keep room for fees, shipping and your margin (FlipTip uses the expected sale ÷ 1.6), then take off the shipping and divide by the buyer's premium and tax: with a 15% premium and $10 shipping, an item that sells for $160 leaves a max bid of about $78. Sale X-Ray does this for every find; the free auction max bid calculator does it for one item.

Is the score a profit promise?

No. It measures how much resale value the photos show and how sure FlipTip is about it. What you make depends on the prices at the sale and the condition of the items — check them there, the scanner is one tap away.

Which plan has Sale X-Ray?

The Dealer plan: up to 20 sales a week, 200 photos each. Every new account tries it free — the free trial starts with 5 days of Dealer.

How many photos can I add?

Up to 200 per X-Ray. One screenshot can show many photos of the gallery at once.

What happens to the photos?

They are used to find the items. Only the photos that show a find are kept with your X-Ray so you can see them on the sale day, and an X-Ray is deleted after 60 days (or whenever you delete it). Nobody else can see them.

Related features

📸Quick, Multi & Batch scanFREE / FLIPPER+Quick Scan for one item, Multi Scan with up to five photos for the exact model, Batch Scan for a whole table at once. 📡Treasure RadarFLIPPER+Walk the market with the camera on — green arrows point at the items worth a closer look, with a rough price. ✅Real sold pricesHUSTLER+See what the item really sold for — the median, the range and the individual sales you can check yourself.

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