Do Converse hold their value? Resale vs. retail for 192 Chucks
Better than most sneakers. Almost half of Converse on StockX resell above retail, against about a third of Nike and Jordan, and the same Converse shoes sell for 18% more than a year ago. The famous Comme des Garçons Chucks are 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 last 90 days with its retail price. 47% of them sold for more than retail, against about 35% of Nike and Jordan shoes and 32% of adidas and New Balance.
And the same Converse shoes are selling for about 18% more than they did a year ago, while the same Jordans sell for 8.5% less.
Converse sell close to retail. Most sneakers don't
The typical Converse on StockX sold for 0.8% below retail: in other words, about what the store charges. The typical Nike sold 14% below retail, Jordan 13% below, adidas 19% below and New Balance 16% below.
| Brand | Shoes | Resold above retail | Cleared fees (+13.6%) | Typical price vs. retail | Same shoe vs. a year ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Converse | 192 | 46.9% | 34.9% | -0.8% | +17.8% |
| Nike | 6,938 | 35.3% | 25.7% | -14.0% | -0.4% |
| Jordan | 3,103 | 36.3% | 26.7% | -13.2% | -8.5% |
| adidas | 2,248 | 32.1% | 23.4% | -19.2% | -4.3% |
| New Balance | 1,143 | 31.8% | 21.4% | -16.0% | -3.7% |
| Vans | 121 | 59.5% | 47.9% | +7.7% | 0.0% |
The gap is not noise. Converse beat each of the four big brands with q below 0.01, meaning 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: 56% of those Converse resold above retail, against 19% of new Jordans, 26% of Nike, 28% of New Balance and 32% 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 18% 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 last 90 days against the same 90 days of 2025. Of 135 shoes that sold enough in both years and changed price, 96 went up and 39 went down. The typical shoe rose 17.8% (95% interval 11.4% to 21.9%).
The mainline Chuck 70 rose 12.4% (56 shoes). The black and white Chuck 70 Ox went from $80 to $97.50, and the black Chuck 70 Hi from $82 to $99.50.
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 the exception
The collab everyone names when they talk about Converse holding value does the worst on this measure. Only 2 of 29 CDG PLAY Chuck 70s sold above retail (7%, interval 2% to 22%), and the typical one sold 22% below. The black Chuck 70 Hi, the most traded CDG pair with 436 sales, went for $103 against a $125 retail.
They are recovering, though: the same CDG pairs sell for 31% more than a year ago, the fastest rise of any Converse group. The low black CDG Chuck 70 Ox now sells for $154 against $120 retail.
The SHAI 001, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's signature shoe, is split. The main 'Charm Black' colorway sells right at retail ($129 against $130, 879 sales), while the 'Masi Blue' goes for $207.
What it means if you own a pair
Converse won't make you money, but they are one of the few sneakers that usually don't lose it. Only about a third clear the roughly 13.6% a StockX seller needs to get retail back after fees. The typical pair sells for about what 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.
How we measured this
Methodology: StockX sales from June 26 to September 24, 2026, recorded by SneakerPulse via kicks.dev. We kept sneakers with at least five sales in the window and a StockX-listed retail price of $30 or more (192 Converse, 8,345 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 = 0.03, all others q < 0.01). 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 (136 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. 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.