What used sneakers actually sell for

Resale advice about sneakers is mostly written about the exceptions: the limited drop, the collaboration, the pair that went for four figures. That is not what is in your closet. What is in your closet is a pair of Dunks worn eleven times, and the honest question is whether they are worth listing at all.

Below are twelve pairs with the median of what they have actually sold for. Each figure is the middle of a set of completed sales, and the number of sales is stated so you can judge how much weight it carries. A median over twenty-five sales is a price. A median over five is a hint.

The twelve, highest to lowest

Christian Dior Dway, $200 across 23 sales. The only pair here that behaves like a luxury good, and the only one where the asking price ($270) sits far enough above the sold price to be worth arguing about.

Nike Zoom Vapor 12 HC, $108.40 across 19 sales, and Nike Vapor 12 Clay at $98.75 across 5. Tennis shoes hold value better than almost anything else on this list, which is not the reputation they have. Note the Clay figure rests on five sales; treat it as directional.

Frye Carmen, $77 across 6 sales. Leather boots are the one category where condition does most of the pricing, and six sales is not enough to see that spread.

Asics GEL-1130, $68 across 25 sales. A genuinely reliable number, and a useful one: this is the shoe that went from unfashionable to everywhere, and the resale market followed.

Nike React Pegasus Trail 4 GORE-TEX, $63.96 across 25 sales. The GORE-TEX variant is the thing being priced here. The non-waterproof Pegasus is a different shoe and a different number.

Nike Vapor Speed 3, $59.99 across 17 sales. Football cleats, which sell in a season and go quiet out of it.

Nike LeBron James Zoom Soldier 6, $40.99 across 6 sales, and Nike Air Force 1 Shadow at $40 across 25.

Adidas Ultraboost 22, $38 across 23 sales, Nike Dunk Low at $35 across 25, and Nike Air Force 1 Mid at $30 across 25. These three are the floor of the mainstream sneaker market, and all three have enough sales behind them to be trusted.

What the asking prices get wrong

Ten of these have an asking median as well as a sold median, and the two disagree in both directions. The Dunk Low asks $49 and sells for $35. The Air Force 1 Mid asks $54 and sells for $30, a gap of eighty percent. But the Zoom Vapor 12 HC asks $86.66 and sells for $108.40, and the Vapor Speed 3 asks $45 and sells for $59.99.

An asking price that sits above the sold price means sellers are hopeful. An asking price below the sold price usually means the few people listing right now are undercutting each other, and it is not the ceiling. Either way, the number that tells you what your pair is worth is the one somebody already paid. See sold price vs asking price for why the distinction matters more than it sounds.

The thing that actually decides your number

None of the medians above describe your pair, because none of them know its condition. Across our data the same model in clean shape and the same model with visible wear are routinely separated by more than the difference between two models on this list. Condition is not a modifier on the price; on used footwear it is frequently the larger term. The condition guide covers what the grades actually mean to a buyer.

The second thing is that a model name is often not one shoe. "Ultraboost" spans a decade of versions. "Air Force 1" covers Low, Mid, Shadow and more, and the three of those we track sell for different numbers. If you are pricing from a search, make sure the sales you are reading are the same shoe you are holding.

So is it worth listing?

At a $30 median, a pair of Air Force 1 Mids clears very little after fees, a mailer and the trip to drop it off. At $68 for the GEL-1130 or $108 for the Vapor 12, the arithmetic changes. The rough line in this data sits somewhere around fifty dollars: below it you are selling for the principle of not throwing shoes away, above it you are selling for money.

Every figure here is a median of completed sales recorded in our own comp data, most of them from August to October 2026. Medians move. If you want the current number for a specific pair rather than the twelve here, the item pages carry the full set of sales behind each one, with dates.