Our Grading
How does your grading work?
Grading varies from wholesaler to wholesaler so we think it's important to explain how we categorise our stock so our customers know what to expect when ordering from us. Please make sure you read and understand our grading methods before purchasing.
We have 2 wholesale grades available for purchase at Vintage Depot LTD
These are called Premium Grade and Rework Grade.
Premium Grade
Our Premium Grade is clothing deemed high quality vintage and second-hand clothing that can be sold on for profit after laundering and sometimes some minor restorative work.
Vintage and second-hand clothing by nature may show signs of wear and ageing depending on how it has been worn and washed over the years including shrinkage, bobbling,
Due to this, items included in a Premium Grade order may require spot stain treatment and minor repairs including: de-bobbling, missing buttons, fallen hems, minor seam repairs. Items may also be included that have missing components but are deemed not to affect the wearability of the garment e.g. missing dress belts, hoodie strings.
Our team only includes items that are deemed wearable and functional. We sometimes may include older, rarer and collectable items that need a bit more TLC as they are deemed to be of a high sellable valuable.
Whilst every effort is made to categorise our stock into our 2 grades up to a 10% allowance is recognised to allow for human error and garment age as we process hundreds of tonnes per year.
Rework Grade
This grade is perfect for designers, repairers & re-workers!
Our Rework Grade consists of vintage and second-hand clothing that need major, time-consuming repairs or are no longer functional and wearable in their current state and will need to be reworked/ used for fabric. This includes broken zips, missing fastenings, large tears to the fabric, severe bobbling, damaged fabric, peeling/ damaged graphics, damaged linings, Paint, Oil and Stubborn Stains.
Our rework grade is anything we wouldn't list online, sell at handpick or sell at events.
For this grade we weigh out the product without handpicking and ship it out to you quickly.