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How much do Air Max 97s cost on resale? $136, and rising

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

GOAT and StockX sales, 90 days to September 26, 2026. Air Max 97 median resale price $136 (half of pairs $115 to $192, 3,121 sales, 312 listings). Same-listing price vs a year earlier +16.5% (95% CI +9.6% to +21.7%, 53 rose, 21 fell, BH q = 0.0007 across 26 models). Air Max Plus +14.0%, Air Max 1 +10.1%, Air Max 90 +8.8%, Air Max 95 -9.1%. Triple White $160.50, Black/White-Anthracite $125, Silver Bullet 2022 $249.

Do Converse hold their value? Resale vs. retail for 192 Chucks

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

StockX sales June 26 - September 24, 2026. 46.9% of 192 Converse sneakers had a 90-day median resale price above retail (95% CI 39.9% to 53.9%), against 35.3% of Nike, 36.3% of Jordan, 32.1% of adidas and 31.8% of New Balance (all q < 0.01). Same-shoe resale prices rose 17.8% year over year (CI 11.4% to 21.9%, 136 shoes) while Jordan fell 8.5%. CDG PLAY Chuck 70s: 2 of 29 above retail.

Do StockX and GOAT prices move together? Barely week to week, strongly over a year

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Same-shoe median resale prices on GOAT and StockX, matched by style code, Oct 2024 - Sep 2026. Week-over-week changes barely correlate (r = 0.03 with 3+ sales a week; 0.19 with 20+). Over longer windows the link grows: 4 weeks r = 0.39, 3 months 0.57, 6 months 0.66, 12 months 0.72 (95% CI 0.64 to 0.78, 354 shoes). When both prices moved 5%+ over a year, they moved the same way 89% of the time. Neither site leads the other. Over the last 90 days GOAT's median was 1.1% above StockX's for the typical shoe, but 47% of 4,148 shoes differed by 10% or more.

Do tax refunds fuel sneaker resale? Two filing seasons say no

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Weekly IRS Filing Season Statistics for 2025 and 2026 against GOAT and StockX footwear resale, mid-January to mid-May. Week-over-week changes in refund dollars show no link to resale volume (r = +0.05) or same-shoe sales (r = -0.01), in the same week or the week after (all q > 0.6). Refund-heavy weeks came with slightly lower same-shoe prices (r = -0.62, q = 0.02), about -0.5% per doubling of refunds. By the last week of March, 2026 had refunded $26.5bn (13.6%) more than 2025, yet its Feb-Mar resale lift was 14.1% smaller (95% CI -28.8% to +3.6%, q = 0.32).

Sneaker inventory planning with resale data: when, what sizes and how fast

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Seasonality by category (boots peak in December at 2.3x their average share of resale and bottom out in May at 0.38x; basketball peaks in October at 1.54x; running in June at 1.26x), a men's size curve (size 10 = 11.8% of pairs, sizes 9-11 = 51%), launch sell-through (35% of first-26-week resale in the first 4 weeks, half by week 8) and price erosion after launch (-5.3% by week 4, -8.2% by week 26), from GOAT and StockX sales Oct 2024 - Aug 2026.

Does cold weather sell boots? Two years of US temperatures vs. resale

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

100 weeks of GOAT and StockX footwear resale (Oct 2024 - Sep 2026) against the average temperature of 10 large US metros. Week-to-week changes in temperature and boots' share of resale are clearly linked (r = -0.42, q < 0.001): a 10°F colder week comes with a 13.6% larger boot share (95% CI 4.9% to 21.8%). Colder-than-normal weeks are also linked (r = -0.24, q = 0.04), with an effect of about 8% whose range includes zero. Slides and sandals show a weaker mirror effect that doesn't pass testing (q = 0.11).

Do Google searches predict sneaker sales? We tested 8 popular models

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Two years of weekly US Google Trends data for 8 sneaker models (adidas Samba, Jordan 4, Yeezy Slide, UGG Tasman, New Balance 9060, Asics Gel-1130, Nike Dunk, Air Force 1) against each model's share of GOAT and StockX resale, Oct 2024 - Sep 2026. Pooled, weekly changes in search and sales correlate most in the same week (r = 0.30, 95% range 0.21 to 0.38); searches 2-4 weeks earlier add little (r 0.05 to 0.10, all q > 0.1). Jordan 4, UGG Tasman and Gel-1130 track closely; the other five show no link at any lag.

Do NBA stars' big games sell their sneakers? We tested 15 signature athletes

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

15 NBA signature athletes, ESPN game logs for 2024-25 and 2025-26 against GOAT and StockX resale (Oct 2024 - Sep 2026). Month-over-month changes in points per game, team win rate and games played show no clear link to a line's share of resale or same-shoe prices (12 tests, all q > 0.3). Across players, scoring vs resale volume Spearman -0.27 (p = 0.33).

LeBron vs. Jordan: who wins the GOAT debate on the resale market?

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A five-round data comparison of the Air Jordan and Nike LeBron signature lines on GOAT and StockX (last 90 days to Sep 25, 2026). Air Jordan: 520,349 pairs resold, $183 median, 7,220 shoes traded, same-shoe prices -6.2% vs a year earlier (95% CI -6.8% to -5.5%). LeBron: 5,995 pairs, $119 median, 718 shoes, +1.4% (CI -1.5% to +4.1%).

Do Jordan 11s resell above retail? 14 pairs checked, September 2026

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Median StockX resale price against retail for 14 Air Jordan 11 releases, from 18,029 recorded sales (June 27 - September 24, 2026). Also: 45,473 GOAT and StockX sales on price by size, highs vs lows, and how Gamma Blue and Legend Blue prices moved after release.

StockX's fee-free days: 78% more sales, and the same shoes about 5% cheaper