Fair is one of the five condition grades a seller can put on a WishThrift listing, and it sits at roughly 45% of what the same item makes at the top grade. What it means in practice depends entirely on what the thing is, so the 24 category guides below each say where the line falls for that kind of item.
Fair by category
| Category | Where the line falls at this grade |
|---|---|
| Fair Art & Collectables | A named fault: foxing spots, a tear, water staining, a trimmed margin, or a repair somebody has already made to it. |
| Fair Baby & Kids | A named fault or an expired date: a stiff harness, a cracked tray, a missing rain cover, or a seat past its stated lifespan. |
| Fair Bags & Handbags | One structural fault: a torn strap, a zip that has parted from its tape, a hole in a corner, a lining coming away from the seam. |
| Fair Bicycles & Cycling | A named fault: a buckled wheel, seized bearings, worn-through rim braking surfaces, or gears that will not index across the block. |
| Fair Books | A named fault: a split spine, loose or missing pages, water staining, or heavy highlighting through the text. |
| Fair Cameras & Photography | One named fault: a slow shutter at low speeds, perished light seals, haze or fungus in the glass, an unreliable meter. |
| Fair Clothing | One named fault: a hole, a broken zip, a stain that did not come out, a button missing. Fair is honest about a specific thing, not vaguely worn. |
| Fair Electronics | It powers on and does its main job, but something named has failed: a cracked screen, a dead port, a battery that only runs on mains. |
| Fair Furniture | One structural fault: a loose joint, a drawer runner gone, lifted veneer, a torn cover, or a frame that needs a screw it no longer holds. |
| Fair Gaming | A specific fault: stick drift, a drive that struggles with some discs, a dead HDMI port, or a case missing its manual and insert. |
| Fair Home & Garden | A named defect: a chip on the rim, a hairline crack, a fixed stain, or a set that is short a piece. |
| Fair Jewellery & Watches | A named fault: a broken clasp, a missing stone, plating worn through to the base metal, a watch that no longer keeps time. |
| Fair Kids’ Clothing | A named fault: a knee gone through, a stain that stayed, a broken popper, or elastic that no longer holds a waistband up. |
| Fair Kitchen & Appliances | A named fault: a coating worn through, a perished door seal, a cracked jug, or a missing blade or basket from the set. |
| Fair Men’s Clothing | A named fault: a split lining, a moth hole, a broken zip, or trousers already shortened past the point of letting down again. |
| Fair Music & Instruments | A named fault: a lifting bridge, a warped neck, a dead pickup or a crack in the finish that has gone through to the timber. |
| Fair Pet Supplies | A named fault: chewed edges, a broken clip or buckle, a bent bar on a cage, or staining that did not wash out. |
| Fair Shoes & Footwear | A specific failure: the sole separating at the toe, a hole worn through the tread, a broken eyelet, a collapsed heel counter. |
| Fair Sports & Outdoors | A named fault, or a safety item now out of date: a cracked shell, a broken buckle, torn webbing, a seized moving part. |
| Fair Tools & DIY | A named fault: worn brushes, an intermittent switch, a chuck that slips, dead cells, or a guard that is missing entirely. |
| Fair Toys & Games | Incomplete or damaged: pieces missing from a set, a broken joint, a figure short an accessory, batteries corroded in the compartment. |
| Fair Vehicles | A named fault or a paperwork gap: an advisory outstanding, a warning light on, corrosion starting, or documents missing. |
| Fair Vinyl & CDs | A named fault: a skip, a stick on one track, a deep scratch, a split seam or a sleeve that has come apart. |
| Fair Women’s Clothing | A named fault: a stretched neckline that will not recover, a snagged weave, a broken fastening, or a stain that stayed in. |
The grade either side
Fair sits next to Good and For Parts. All five grades and how they are priced are set out on the condition grades page, and you can see every listing currently at the Fair grade.
Grades are declared by the seller. WishThrift does not inspect, verify or grade items, so the grade is the seller’s summary and the photographs are the evidence behind it. Listing is free and there are no selling fees.