1- "New or Mint", meaning the LP should be absolutely perfect. Even brand new sealed items can be flawed and not qualify as mint.
2- "Near Mint", meaning almost perfect, you may see very tiny flaws or very slight wear, including very light scuff marks.
3- "Excellent or Very Good +", meaning a minimum of visual or audible imperfections, some visual wear, surface noise is evident.
4- "Very Good", meaning a little more signs of wear, labels may be marred with some writing or tape or stickers, same with the sleeves, light scratches will be able to be felt with fingernail.
5- "Good", meaning the item is not bad, but will show definite signs of wear & tear, probably evidence that no real care was given to the item, but should play without skipping, more surface noise evident.
6- "Poor or Fair", meaning the item will show definite signs of neglect & most definitely will skip, heavily marred with writing, stickers or tape.
7- "Really Trashed", meaning buy at your own risk.