Vinted Condition Guide: What Each Label Really Means

Vinted has five condition labels for clothes: New, Like new, Very good, Good and Satisfactory. New and Like new are for unused items only, so anything worn starts at Very good. Choose Very good if flaws are minor and don’t change how it looks, Good if it shows regular wear, and Satisfactory if the wear is clear. If you’re unsure between two, Vinted tells you to pick the lower one (checked November 2, 2026).

This guide is for someone with an item on the bed and the condition menu open. It uses Vinted UK’s wording, because Vinted’s help pages are the only official definition. Other sites are shown for comparison.

At a glance: the labels side by side

No site publishes a conversion table, so this one is our own reading of each site’s definitions. The grade column is our own rough scale, using the same A to D letters as the Vintage Snap app.

What you’re holding	Our grade	Vinted	eBay	Vestiaire Collective
Unused, tags or packaging on	Unworn	New	New with tags	Not covered in its visual guide
Unused, tags or packaging gone	Unworn	Like new	New without tags	Not covered in its visual guide
Worn, no real signs of it	A	Very good	Pre-owned - Excellent	Very Good Condition
Worn, small flaws you have to look for	B	Very good	Pre-owned - Good	Very Good Condition
Regularly worn, wear is visible	C	Good	Pre-owned - Good	Good Condition
Heavy wear or obvious flaws, still wearable	D	Satisfactory	Pre-owned - Fair	Fair Condition

Two traps sit in that table. A worn jacket can be “Excellent” on eBay, but it can’t be “Like new” on Vinted, because eBay’s top pre-owned label covers worn items and Vinted’s Like new does not. And Vestiaire Collective shows photo examples instead of written definitions, so treat its column as a loose match.

What Vinted’s labels mean

This is our summary of Vinted’s help page on item condition. Check that page for the exact wording.

• New: unused and unopened, with all the original packaging and accessories.
• Like new: also unused, but opened or without the original packaging.
• Very good: gently used, with small flaws that don’t change how it looks or works.
• Good: used regularly and showing it, but it still does its job well.
• Satisfactory: well used, with clear wear and flaws, but it still works.

There’s a sixth label, Needs repair, but Vinted limits it to electronic devices. So a coat with a broken zip can’t use it. List it as Satisfactory, show the zip and say it’s broken.

Judge your item in five minutes

Do this by a window, in daylight. Indoor light hides stains and fading.

1. Turn it inside out. Check the seams, the lining and the hem. Thin patches and loose stitching show up here first.
2. Go to the wear points. Look at collar, cuffs, underarms, the seat, the knees and any button or zip. Vinted’s own list of flaws to mention covers scuffs, stains, holes, missing parts, broken zips, odours, alterations, stretching and fading.
3. Hold it up to the light. Small moth holes and worn fabric show as bright points.
4. Smell it. Smoke, perfume and damp all count. They don’t appear in photos, so buyers only find out when the parcel arrives.
5. Check it works. Do up every zip and button, and check that any belt or hood that came with it is still there.

Then ask one question: would the buyer be surprised? If yes, go one label lower or show the flaw more clearly. Vinted asks for a clear photo of each flaw and a description of it. Doing both also protects you, because the buyer has seen what they’re paying for. A description template for Vinted makes it hard to forget one.

Very good or Good: how to decide

This is the choice most people get stuck on. It helps to compare with wear you can see, not with how much you liked the item.

• Very good: you need to look for the flaw. One tiny pulled thread inside a sleeve, or slight softening at the cuffs.
• Good: you can see it’s been worn from arm’s length. Pilling across the front, faded knees, a worn collar.
• Satisfactory: you’d mention it to a friend before lending it. A visible stain, a repaired hole, a missing button or a stretched neck.

Label honesty also changes the money. Vinted’s pricing advice gives a lower share of retail as you move down from Like new to Very good to Good, with Good and Satisfactory sharing the lowest band, so the label sets your starting range. The Vinted pricing guide has the percentages and worked sums. An inflated label costs more than it earns: if an item is significantly worse than listed, the buyer can report it, and the seller doesn’t get paid while that’s open.

What happens if the label is wrong

Vinted’s rules are short. If the item is significantly worse than listed, the buyer may cancel the order or return the item, and Vinted says it may hide listings with the wrong condition.

Its returns page gives the timing. The buyer has 2 days to report an issue from when Vinted says the item should have been delivered. If the seller asks for the item back, the buyer has 5 business days to send it, and usually pays the postage unless the seller agrees to cover it.

eBay works on the same idea, but with more detail on photos: its condition page says signs of wear on a pre-owned item should be shown and described in the listing. If you sell on several sites, write the flaws once and copy them across. Our selling fees comparison and the where to sell guide help you decide which sites are worth it.

Old pieces: wear isn’t always damage

Condition labels were written for modern clothes, and vintage doesn’t always fit them. Fading on a 1980s denim jacket can be what a buyer wants, while the same fading on a recent high-street top is just wear. Vinted still lists fading as a flaw to mention, so disclose it either way. Then choose the label for the physical state, and use the description for the story.

Date the piece before you describe it. The guide to dating Levi’s shows how labels and tags help, and the football shirt checks matter if a shirt looks almost too clean for its age. The same goes for a Polo shirt: check that a Ralph Lauren is real before you call it vintage. Fur has its own rules, and Vinted doesn’t accept real fur at all, so see the fur coat guide.

Repairs and alterations need a mention too. A neat repair on an old piece may do little harm, but a buyer should learn about it from you and not from the seam.

What “grade A” means when you’re buying

Waxed jackets need one extra check: dry, cracked wax and a musty smell count as wear. See how to date a Barbour jacket for what else moves its price.

If you’ve seen “grade A” on a bale, a wholesale lot or a shop’s rail, that’s a different system from Vinted’s. It’s a sorting term, and there’s no official standard behind it. Indetexx, a used-clothing exporter, says no global body defines the term and that what passes as grade A changes by market. As a rule, A means the best sorted tier, B means wearable with some flaws, and C means heavily worn, often for recycling. The exact limits belong to each seller.

Before you pay, ask for the grading policy in writing, ask what share of the lot is guaranteed at that grade, and ask what’s been removed. If a bale doesn’t resell well as single pieces, the kilo route is the fallback, once you’ve pulled out the better items. More on pricing and dating is in the guides hub.