Simple Ratings Explained:
We rate our items quite harshly, our VERY GOOD is often someone else's EXCELLENT.
SPARES \ REPAIRS - Broken bits, missing arms from ball joints, for customs, salvage, apparent heavy wear for repairing other figures using parts, customs, and kit-bashing only.
POOR - Main body complete, may have heavy sticker \ play-wear, heavy yellowing \ discolouration \ chips \ rusting \ marks, very loose limbs or joints. We don't tend to sell these separately and often put in SPARES \ REPAIRS job-lots.
GOOD - Main body complete, may include some moderate to heavy-sticker wear, moderate play-wear which may include some chips, marks and scratches, light to moderate yellowing or discolouration, light to moderate oxidation \ rust on screws. May have loose limbs but acceptable and transforms without issue.
VERY GOOD - Main body complete, may include light play-wear, light to moderate sticker-wear, some small chips and \ or scratches, very light \ mild yellowing \ discolouration, maybe some rub marks or rust \ oxidation on screws. May have minor looseness to joints \ limbs but will likely be tight.
EXCELLENT - We are very careful about using this term, anything shy of 'Near Mint', will have very good stickers that are well placed, some may have very minor lifting or tiny marks, maybe some minuscule scratches and marks \ paint chips, minimal oxidation \ rust to screws if at all, no discolouration or yellowing. Solid \ tight joints. We use this term rarely so if we cannot make our minds up between VERY GOOD and EXCELLENT I will say it is between these conditions however please assume VERY GOOD condition to avoid disappointment.
NEAR MINT - We doubt if we will see one of these unless we pull it out of a sealed box ourselves, loose, not in a box, but either recently came out of one or went straight into storage, maybe displayed briefly by an adult collector before going back into protected storage. Manufacturing faults only.
MINT - Unopened in sealed box (MISB), unopened on card backing and bubble (MOSC).