I’ve seen a lot of discussion – here and elsewhere! – about if we’re in a recession or whether the “economy is slow.” We all know that secondhand sales are a little different to normal retail (no tariffs 🤪!), but you don’t often see talking heads on CNN discussing how the news of the day will affect sales of vintage glassware.

That ends today! We dug through the sales data we have from the 1000-ish stores that use Quail to ring up sales across the country to see if we could spot any trends. Did sales of antiques crash after the election? Did ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs cause a big spike in folks buying secondhand?

And it turns out: not…really? April 2025 is coming in pretty much spot-on similar to the last three years. If anything stores are seeing more sales in 2025 than in the past three years! The chart above is US-wide, but I spot-checked a handful of states and didn’t see any different trends. Obviously this data is averaged across the country and doesn’t reflect if times are specifically hard in, say, Ohio, but it’s still worth looking at.

So far, at least, my read is that nationwide things are pretty much holding steady in secondhand, antique, and consignment sales. And whatever your politics, that’s got to be great news. 🎉