Second-hand shop

The format of selling second hand goods in a shop, is not ubiquitous: the cost of operating a physical location alongside the need to handle large inventory, sometimes means that resellers opt for temporary venues like Flea market, garage sales or temporary pop-up type sales.

Some goods have always had a vibrant second hand market that allow for the creation of permanent venues, such as antiques and books.

[1] It is generally done during auctions, shipping, goods transfer, or putting something up for sale in a consignment store.

[3][4] A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

While many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewelry, musical instruments, home audio equipment, computers, video game systems, coins, gold, silver, televisions, cameras, power tools, firearms, and other relatively valuable items as collateral.

The quality of these items may vary from very low to extremely high and expensive, depending on the nature and location of the shop.

People will sell used goods right in front of their home in what is called a "garage sale".

Sketches by reporter-artist Marguerite Martyn of people in a St. Louis, Missouri, second-hand shop in 1920
Second-hand Encyclopaedia Britannica books in a second-hand bookstore in Bugis , Singapore
The Salvation Army Thrift Store in Santa Monica, California
Inside a free shop in Freiburg , Germany
360° panorama of free shop in Bochum , Germany
( view as a 360° interactive panorama )
A junk shop in Caravanserai of Nishapur , Iran .
A junk shop of Ueno Park , in Tokyo ( Japan ).
A pawnshop business in Munich , Germany in 2014
A London shop displays the traditional pawnbroker's sign
Shelves in a thrift store in Indianapolis , Indiana
A charity shop in Sheringham, UK
An antique shop at Daan District, Taipei .
A vintage travel gear seller at Marché Dauphine, Saint-Ouen , Paris
Interior of an antique shop in Kochi, India .
Antique shop "Vaarin varasto" in Tammela , Tampere , Finland.
A store of used books in Madrid
A second-hand book store in the United States.