What this is

Two mugs that look the same can be $26 and $54, and neither seller is doing anything wrong. Handmade pricing has no list price to check against — just whatever everyone else happens to be asking this month. worthit writes that down for you, in a sentence, and then rewrites it every day.

It answers a different question from a price alert

A price alert waits for a number to fall. This waits for a number to stop being unreasonable, which is not the same event and often is not the same day. A $54 mug can go from above the usual range to inside it while the seller is asleep — four more potters listed similar mugs, or the cheap ones sold, and the middle of the market moved. Nothing about that listing changed. Everything about the answer did.

Why it is written out rather than charted

Because the honest answer usually needs a qualifier. Forty listings is a finding; nine is a hint. "Cheap" is a fact about the price, not a recommendation about the object — a low price on handmade work is sometimes a warning. A dashboard tile showing $47 in large type cannot say any of that. A sentence can, so the figures are set inside sentences.

What it will not do

It will not tell you whether the thing is any good, whether the maker is fairly paid, or whether you should buy it. It compares prices attached to listings that a keyword search brought back, and that is the whole of its competence. If you asked it about mug it will confidently compare a hand-thrown one against a printed one and be entirely wrong in a plausible tone of voice.

Where the data comes from

The public listing search of the Etsy Open API v3, with an application keystring. No OAuth, no access to anyone's private data, and you are never asked to connect an Etsy account. Every link goes to etsy.com; buying happens there.

Who pays for it

Nobody. It is free, carries no advertising, and has no affiliate links — the links here are plain links. If that changes this page will say so before it does. It is built and run by one independent developer and is not affiliated with Etsy, Inc.