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Estimate a fair second-hand price for a smartphone, laptop, home appliance or furniture from age, condition and original price.
Pick the item, enter what you paid, its age and condition, and see a fair asking price range. This page brings together 4 separate resale value estimator pages (Appliance, Furniture, Laptop, Smartphone) so you can compare them without hunting for the right one.
Open Resale Value Estimator on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Choose your item at the top: Appliance, Furniture, Laptop, Smartphone. On a phone it is a drop-down list.
Fill in the resale value estimator for that item; each of the 4 options keeps its own rules, data and defaults.
Read the result, then switch item to compare. The page link keeps your item (?v=appliance), so you can bookmark or share it.
Appliance, Furniture, Laptop and the rest sit behind one picker, so switching item takes a tap instead of a new search.
Every item keeps its own rules, numbers and defaults rather than one generic template.
The link remembers the item you picked, so a bookmark or a shared link opens straight on it.
4: Appliance, Furniture, Laptop, Smartphone. Pick one at the top of the tool; the page link updates (for example ?v=appliance) so you can bookmark or share that exact view.
A refrigerator is generally rated for around 10-12 years of service and a room air conditioner for about 10, with washing machines nearer 8-10. Resale value drops steeply in the last few years of that window because a compressor or motor failure becomes the buyer's likely next expense.
It depends almost entirely on the material. Solid hardwood typically loses around 30% in the first year and only about 4-6% a year after that, while particle board flat-pack furniture can lose 60% in year one and roughly a quarter of the remainder each year, because it cannot be dismantled and reassembled reliably.
Typically 35-40% of its purchase price. Depreciation is steepest immediately after purchase because the model is still on sale new, and it flattens to roughly 20-25% a year after the first twelve months.
Roughly 40-50% of its launch price in the first year — the default model here assumes 45%. This age-based curve is the same regardless of brand or resale demand; after the first year the fall flattens to about 30% of what is left per year, which is why a two-year-old phone typically fetches around a third of what it cost new. Resale demand instead moves the estimate through a separate demand factor applied on top of the age curve, not by changing how fast it depreciates.