Vintage & used goods retail statistics.

What this covers

A useful national snapshot, not an appraisal guide.

The figures on this page use the Census Bureau’s national “Used Merchandise Retailers” classification. It is a helpful broad view of a retail world that includes antiques, secondhand goods, and used merchandise. It does not measure the value of a particular collectible, the sales of every individual online seller, or the whole resale economy outside this category.

That distinction matters. Vintage is wonderfully specific, while the public data is most reliable when it is read at the industry level. For a specific piece, condition, provenance, maker, and current buyer interest still matter more than a national total.