Conflicting Estimates Put Global Used Jewelry Resale Market Between $2.7B and $22B

BusinessResearchInsights projects the global used jewelry resale service market will be worth USD 2.7 billion in 2026, listing Report ID 113568 and a last updated date of 02 February 2026, a base year of 2025, and historical data for 2022–2024. That estimate sits alongside a much larger claim from Orbit Precision, which values the Used Jewelry Resale Service Market at USD 11.07 billion in 2025 and projects growth to USD 22 billion by 2033 at a CAGR of 8.96 percent for 2026–2033.

The two vendors also use different forecast windows and disclosure practices. BRI’s sample page advertises included materials such as Market Segmentation, Key Findings, Research Scope, Table of Content, Report Structure, and Report Methodology, and lists a 91 page PDF; Orbit Precision’s extract shows dual publication timestamps—Published Feb 3, 2026 and Publication Date Jan 2026—and supplies a named contact, Mr. Edwyne Fernandes, plus regional phone numbers for APAC, EU and US inquiries. Orbit Precision adds a qualitative driver in its copy: "This expansion is fueled by rising demand across industrial, commercial, and technology-driven applications, alongside continuous innovation, broadening use cases, and increasing investments across major end-use sectors."

The two firms also differ in how they segment the niche. BRI explicitly breaks the used-resale service market down by Type into Men’s Jewelry and Women’s Jewelry and by Application into Online Resale Service and Offline Resale Service. Orbit Precision’s excerpt instead emphasizes regional dynamics, stating that developed regions such as North America and Europe hold significant market shares while "Asia-Pacific is projected to experience the fastest growth due to rapid industrialization and urbanization."

Placing those niche estimates against the broader jewelry industry highlights scale and definitional risk. Fortune Business Insights values the global jewelry market at USD 242.79 billion in 2025 and projects it to USD 387.36 billion by 2034, with Asia Pacific holding a 39.23 percent share in 2025. Icecartel presents multiple global totals for 2026—USD 377 billion to USD 390 billion—and reports sustainability metrics such as "Demand for ethically sourced gold and diamonds has risen by 54 percent" and "Approximately 62 percent of global consumers now prefer ethically sourced and certified gold." Nextmsc offers yet another frame, valuing the global jewelry market at USD 409.27 billion in 2025 and projecting USD 713.10 billion by 2035.

Key reconciliation points remain unresolved in the supplied excerpts. Neither Orbit Precision nor BRI published full methodological tables in the material provided here; BRI’s sample asserts that Report Methodology and regional breakdowns are included in the full report, while Orbit’s page furnishes contact details for follow-up. The central open questions are explicit: do the headline numbers measure gross transaction value, reseller revenue and fees, retail-equivalent transaction value, or some hybrid; do they include consignment platforms, pawn shops, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and cross-border flows; and which countries are counted in APAC, North America and Europe.

Until those methodological definitions and historical data tables are produced by the vendors, the used-resale segment will continue to sit between BRI’s modest USD 2.7 billion estimate and Orbit Precision’s USD 11.07 billion valuation and USD 22 billion projection, even as overall jewelry totals run into the hundreds of billions and sustainability shifts such as recycled-gold initiatives reshape market composition.