Is Value My Stuff Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Value My Stuff on AmazonFull story →Patrick van der Vorst pitched an online service that lets people get antiques and fine art professionally appraised without visiting an auction house in person.
The business is still running today, though it changed hands more than once to get there.
The Terms
Van der Vorst wanted £100,000 for 40 percent of the company, and Deborah Meaden and Theo Paphitis supplied the full amount between them.
Paphitis's consumer retail instincts paired with Meaden's focus on process fit a business that lives or dies on whether customers trust a valuation they cannot see performed in person.
A Genuinely Rocky Ownership History
German auction technology company Auctionata bought the business in 2015 and then collapsed into insolvency itself in 2017, with the valuation service's assets carved out and kept trading rather than shut down with the rest of the parent.
Van der Vorst himself stepped in to buy the service back that year, then sold it again in October 2018 to Swedish art and antiques group Barneby's, which still owns it today.
Where It Stands
The platform runs today under the ValueMyStuff banner, offering paid appraisals from vetted experts through its own site rather than a third party marketplace.
Making it through a parent company's collapse and two further ownership changes without ever formally shutting down says something real about ongoing demand for the service itself.