Goyard · Everyday Totes
Goyard Saint Louis PM Resale Value & Cost Per Wear
Boutique retail
$1,950
$2,116 with sales tax
Resale today
$2,350
121% of retail retained
5-yr net
−$561
$112 a year to own
Cost per wear
$0.93
600 wears in 5 years
Baseline: bought new at the boutique with 8.5% sales tax, kept 5 years, consigned at 25% commission, after $390 of insurance and reconditioning. Adjust everything below.
Model your Saint Louis PM
Pre-filled with Goyard Saint Louis PM figures. The two inputs that decide the outcome are the consignment commission and how often you actually carry it.
The bag
Boutique price is what you pay new. Resale is what the market pays today, and the starting point for every projection.
List price before sales tax.
21% above retail. Projection starts here.
Cost of keeping it
Sales tax and the consignment commission are never recovered. Together they decide the result more than the bag does.
$166 on this purchase, and never recovered.
Resale platforms take 15–40%. Selling privately is cheaper and slower.
A scheduled personal-articles rider, roughly 1–1.5% of value.
Cleaning, edge paint, hardware, interior.
Charged only in the years one actually falls due.
Used for the cost-per-wear figure below.
Goyard Saint Louis PM — 5-year net
−$561
cost of owning it, after resale
$112 per year · $0.93 per wear
The bag held its value and you still lost money. Sales tax, the consignment commission, insurance, and reconditioning consumed the whole of it. On handbags the commission alone is usually larger than any appreciation.
$1,950 plus $166 sales tax
133% of boutique retail
Total across the holding period
You recover 92% of what the bag cost you. It does not break even within 5 years at these assumptions — which is the normal outcome, not a failure of the bag.
Value versus what you actually keep
The gap between the two lines is sales tax, commission, insurance, and reconditioning.
- Resale value
- Value after commission & upkeep
Full breakdown
No e-commerce, no advertising, no discounting — and the only tote under $2,000 that resells above retail.
Goyard Saint Louis PM at a glance
- Size and leather
- PM · Goyardine coated canvas
- Material
- Goyardine coated canvas
- Dimensions
- 41 × 34 × 18 cm
- Category
- Everyday Totes
- Typical use
- 120 wears a year
- Boutique access
- Available to buy
Saint Louis PM market position
The premium comes entirely from distribution. Goyard sells through a handful of boutiques, publishes no prices, and never marks down, so the resale market is the only accessible channel for most buyers. Colour and chevron combination move price more than condition does.
Projected resale curve
Modeled from $1,950 boutique retail over five years.
What ownership costs
Five years with the Saint Louis PM costs about $561 net of resale — $112 a year. You recover 92% of what you paid.
- Sales tax at purchase
- $166
- Insurance per year
- $28
- Reconditioning
- $250 / 4 yrs
- Consignment commission
- $648
- Cost per wear over 5 years
- $0.93
Goyard Saint Louis PM — common questions
- How much does a Goyard Saint Louis PM cost?
- Boutique retail is $1,950 before tax. On the resale market an excellent-condition example currently asks around $2,350, a premium of 21% over retail. With sales tax at 8.5%, buying new costs $2,116 out of pocket.
- Does the Goyard Saint Louis PM hold its value?
- Not in cash terms. Held 5 years and consigned at 25% commission, it returns about $1,945 — roughly 92% of the $2,116 all-in purchase cost. After $390 of insurance and reconditioning, owning it costs about $561, or $112 a year. That is normal for a handbag.
- What is the cost per wear of a Goyard Saint Louis PM?
- At a typical 120 wears a year over 5 years — 600 wears in total — and after recovering $1,945 on resale, the Goyard Saint Louis PM works out at about $0.93 per wear. Kept rather than sold, it is $4.18 per wear. Carrying it twice as often halves the figure, which is the only lever that reliably moves it.
- Is the Goyard Saint Louis PM worth buying at retail or pre-owned?
- Retail, decisively — if you can be offered one. The boutique price is $1,950 against $2,350 on the resale market, so an offer at retail is worth about $400 the day you collect it.
- What does it cost to maintain a Goyard Saint Louis PM?
- Budget approximately $250 for a full reconditioning — cleaning, edge paint, hardware, and interior — roughly every 4 years, plus around $28 a year to schedule it on a personal-articles policy. Over 5 years that totals about $390. Goyardine coated canvas is the variable: it decides how often the bag needs attention and how harshly resale grades the wear.
Compare with
Louis Vuitton
Speedy Bandoulière 25
Monogram coated canvas
- Retail
- $2,030
- Resale
- $1,500
- Retained
- 74%
Louis Vuitton
Neverfull MM
Monogram coated canvas
- Retail
- $2,200
- Resale
- $1,680
- Retained
- 76%
Louis Vuitton
Pochette Métis East West
Monogram coated canvas
- Retail
- $2,790
- Resale
- $2,100
- Retained
- 75%
Goyard
Artois PM
Goyardine coated canvas
- Retail
- $3,300
- Resale
- $3,750
- Retained
- 114%
Path to own
How long until you can own this?
Carrying a Goyard Saint Louis PM costs about $8 a month once finance and running costs are combined — implying roughly $850 of net monthly income at 5% of net monthly income, plus $2,550 up front. Enter your own figures to see which of those two is actually your constraint, and when it clears.
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