Do Converse hold their value? Resale vs. retail for 223 Chucks (updated October 2026)
Better than most sneakers, and better than we first reported. 56% of Converse on StockX resell above retail, against 38% of Nike and 37% of Jordan, and the same Converse shoes sell for 14% more than a year ago. The Comme des Garçons Chucks are still the exception.
Converse have a reputation as the sneaker you buy to wear, not to flip. They cost $55 to $100, they restock forever, and nobody camps outside a store for a pair of black Chuck 70s. So do they hold their value at all?
Better than most of the sneaker market, it turns out. We compared every Converse sneaker that sold at least five times on StockX over the latest 90 days whose sales are complete in our record (July 28 to October 25, 2026) with its retail price. 56% of them sold for more than retail, against about 37% of Nike and Jordan shoes and 32% to 34% of adidas and New Balance.
And the same Converse shoes are selling for about 14% more than they did a year ago, while the same Jordans sell for almost 10% less.
Updated October 30, 2026. The September 26 version of this post said 47% of 192 Converse resold above retail and that the typical pair sold 0.8% below retail. It read retail prices from a StockX catalog snapshot taken on September 24, and a later check found that snapshot had missed about a thousand recently added listings. Re-running the same June 26 - September 24 window on today's catalog (48,842 listings, against 47,997) finds 34 Converse the old catalog did not hold, 28 of them released in 2025 or 2026 and 27 of them reselling above retail, among them the summer's most-traded Converse (the Chuck Taylor Throwback Low Black Vintage White, 1,429 sales at $93 against an $80 retail), the Dragon Ball Z Chuck 70 and three SHAI 001 colorways.
With them, and with the sales that have loaded since, the September figure should have read 54% of 244 Converse above retail (interval 47% to 60%), the typical pair 4.6% above retail, and 41% clearing fees rather than 35%. The four big brands moved by at most 1.3 points (Nike 36.2%, Jordan 36.3%, adidas 33.4%, New Balance 33.1%) and Vans rose from 60% to 68% of 171 shoes.
The year-over-year finding stands (+18.3% on 146 shoes, was +17.8% on 136), and the Comme des Garçons finding stands (3 of 29 above retail, was 2 of 29). The rest of this post is re-run on the latest complete window; the September figures are kept in the methodology.
Converse sell a little above retail. Most sneakers sell well below it
The typical Converse on StockX sold for 7% above retail. The typical Nike sold 12% below retail, Jordan 13.5% below, adidas 17% below and New Balance 15% below.
| Brand | Shoes | Resold above retail | Cleared fees (+13.6%) | Typical price vs. retail | Same shoe vs. a year ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Converse | 223 | 55.6% | 45.3% | +7.3% | +13.8% |
| Nike | 7,206 | 37.6% | 27.8% | -12.2% | -2.0% |
| Jordan | 3,302 | 36.5% | 26.6% | -13.5% | -9.6% |
| adidas | 2,354 | 33.9% | 24.2% | -17.1% | -4.4% |
| New Balance | 1,223 | 32.1% | 21.3% | -15.2% | -5.7% |
| Vans | 165 | 67.9% | 60.0% | +24.5% | +3.1% |
The gap is not noise. Converse beat each of the four big brands, and the difference survives testing all five comparisons at once. Vans, the other cheap canvas classic, did better still.
The pattern holds when we look only at shoes released since 2024, whose listed retail prices are current: 69% of those 97 Converse resold above retail, against 23% of new Jordans, 30% of Nike, 28% of New Balance and 35% of adidas.
The cheaper and more ordinary the shoe, the less room it has to fall below what the store charges.
That is probably most of the story. A $100 Chuck 70 has little hype priced in, so there is little to lose. A $230 Jordan retro that sits on shelves has a long way down.
The same Chucks cost 14% more than last year
To rule out a change in which shoes are selling, we compared each Converse with itself: its median price over the latest 90 days against the same 90 days of 2025. Of 130 shoes that sold enough in both years, 88 went up, 41 went down and one was unchanged. The typical shoe rose 13.8%.
The mainline Chuck 70 rose 10% (29 shoes). The black Chuck 70 Hi went from $80 to $97 against an $85 retail, and the black and white Chuck 70 Ox from $83 to $98 against $80.
We can't tell from sales alone whether that is demand or higher store prices pulling resale up. Either way, it is the opposite of the Jordan market over the same year.
Comme des Garçons Chucks are still the exception
The collab everyone names when they talk about Converse holding value does the worst on this measure. Only 5 of 26 CDG PLAY Chuck 70s sold above retail, and the typical one sold 21% below. The black Chuck 70 Hi, the most traded CDG pair with 399 sales in the window, went for $105 against a $125 retail.
They are recovering, though: the same CDG pairs sell for 43% more than a year ago (24 shoes), the fastest rise of any Converse group. The black CDG Chuck 70 Ox now sells for $151 against $120 retail, up from $95 a year ago.
The SHAI 001, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's signature shoe, is split: 7 of its 16 colorways sold above retail. The main 'Charm Black' colorway sells just under retail ($126 against $130, 1,024 sales, the second most-traded Converse of the window), the 'Echo' goes for $158, and the $150 'Premium Steel' for $90.
| Converse group | Shoes | Resold above retail | Typical price vs. retail | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Taylor All Star (classic) | 55 | 64% | +18% | 4,439 |
| SHAI 001 | 16 | 44% | -4% | 3,673 |
| Chuck 70 (mainline) | 51 | 59% | +14% | 1,884 |
| Comme des Garçons PLAY | 26 | 19% | -21% | 1,684 |
| Other collabs | 51 | 65% | +12% | 831 |
| Other Converse | 24 | 58% | +14% | 590 |
What it means if you own a pair
Converse won't make you much money, but they are one of the few sneakers that usually don't lose it. Fewer than half clear the roughly 13.6% a StockX seller needs to get retail back after fees. The typical pair sells for a little more than you paid.
You can look up any pair on our price checker, see the Chuck 70 page for its median and size range, or compare with whether sneakers in general resell above retail.
The tests behind these numbers
The paragraphs and tables above, in full, with their intervals and tests.
The gap is not noise. Converse beat each of the four big brands, and the difference survives testing all five comparisons at once (each q below 0.001). Vans, the other cheap canvas classic, did better still (Vans vs. Converse q = 0.014).
To rule out a change in which shoes are selling, we compared each Converse with itself: its median price over the latest 90 days against the same 90 days of 2025. Of 130 shoes that sold enough in both years, 88 went up, 41 went down and one was unchanged. The typical shoe rose 13.8% (95% interval 8.9% to 23.5%).
The collab everyone names when they talk about Converse holding value does the worst on this measure. Only 5 of 26 CDG PLAY Chuck 70s sold above retail (19%, interval 9% to 38%), and the typical one sold 21% below. The black Chuck 70 Hi, the most traded CDG pair with 399 sales in the window, went for $105 against a $125 retail.
How we measured this
Methodology: StockX sales from July 28 to October 25, 2026, recorded by SneakerPulse via kicks.dev (October 25 was the last day complete on both platforms when this was re-run on October 30). We kept sneakers with at least five sales in the window and a StockX-listed retail price of $30 or more from the StockX retail catalog refreshed on October 30, 2026 (223 Converse, 13,101 sales). "Resold above retail" means the shoe's median sale price in the window was above its retail price; intervals are Wilson 95% intervals over shoes. Brand comparisons use two-proportion z-tests with Benjamini-Hochberg correction across the five comparisons (Converse vs. Vans q = 0.014, all others q < 0.001). The fee line of 13.6% is the markup a StockX Level 1 seller needs to recover retail after the 9% transaction fee and 3% payment processing, before shipping. Year-over-year change compares each shoe's median in the same window of 2025 (130 Converse shoes with 5+ sales in both); the interval is a 2,000-draw bootstrap of the median, and the up/down split is an exact binomial test (p < 0.0001). StockX lists retail at release, so long-running shoes may be compared with an older, lower price; the since-2024 check addresses that. From September 2026 our record holds about a quarter fewer Converse listings with weekly sales than in the summer (source-feed coverage, tracked on our free data page), so the counts are of the shoes we hold and no sales-volume trend is drawn from them. StockX lists fewer Converse than Nike, and the ones that reach five sales are the ones people bother to resell, so the Converse figures describe that set, not every Converse sold in stores. September 26 version, June 26 - September 24, 2026, on the September 24 catalog: 192 Converse, 46.9% above retail (CI 39.9% to 53.9%), 34.9% cleared fees, typical -0.8%; Nike 35.3%, Jordan 36.3%, adidas 32.1%, New Balance 31.8%, Vans 59.5%; same-shoe +17.8% (136 shoes); CDG 2 of 29. The same window on the October 30 catalog and today's record: 244 Converse, 53.7% (CI 47.4% to 59.8%), 41.4% cleared fees, typical +4.6%; Nike 36.2%, Jordan 36.3%, adidas 33.4%, New Balance 33.1%, Vans 68.4%; same-shoe +18.3% (146 shoes); CDG 3 of 29. Script: tools/blog_charts/2026-09-26-converse-recheck.py.
Wording updated November 12, 2026: where this post said a day had finished loading, it now says "complete". Complete days can still gain a few % of sales later. No number changed.
The shoes in this post
The 3 shoes named above, each with its own page: recorded sales by size and marketplace, updated daily. Photos GOAT and StockX.