Reseller
company or individual that purchases goods or services with the intention of selling them
A reseller is a company or individual (merchant) that purchases goods or services with the intention of selling them for profit rather than consuming or using them. Resale can be seen in everyday life from yard sales to selling used cars.
Reselling creates a circulation of products, which extends the lifespan of products and reduces the amount of waste in landfills; a used clothing purchased over a new one saves an average about 1 kg of waste, 22 kg of CO2, and 3,040 liters of water.
In 2023 the apparel resale market in the US reached approximately $193.7 billion.
Thrift stores
Dating back to the Middle Ages, trading of secondhand clothing continues in the 21st century. Examples of thrifting organizations include The Salvation Army and Goodwill.
Online resellers
The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Hewi, Collector Square, Depop, eBay, StockX, Chrono24, and Dotte are active in the online reselling market.
Software and telecommunications
In telecommunications, companies buy excess amounts of transmission capacity or call time from other carriers and resell it to smaller carriers.
A software reseller is a consultant who sells the software from large companies under a licence, having no legal employment status with the parent company and generally operating on a freelance basis. Software resellers work with small and medium enterprises (SMEs), local businesses and niche operators.
“Reseller” enters the record as company or individual that purchases goods or services with the intention of selling them. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Reseller, company and individual can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Reseller” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Reseller, company and individual provides the most credible route into that argument.
The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15080920. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.
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