StockX, GOAT and Grailed Photo Requirements for Sneakers and Streetwear

Published 19 October 2026 · by Tekiba

StockX

We read StockX's help articles on the publication date above. For new, sealed pairs on its main marketplace, sellers do not upload listing photos at all. Its Listings marketplace for used and unique items, open to select sellers in the US, is different:

On the Listings Marketplace for used & unique items, sellers are required to upload photos before an item can be listed.

StockX's community guidelines, which its live site turned away and we read in an Internet Archive copy from this month, set the standard for those photos:

Photos and media must accurately show the item for sale. Whenever possible, use photos of the actual item.

They also rule out retailer photos and images you do not have permission to use, and edits, AI-assisted or not, that change how the item looks. We found no size, count or rule on text or watermarks.

GOAT

GOAT asks for photos from sellers of used pairs, pairs with defects, and sellers with a rating below 100. Its help article on rejected photos says:

We require clear photos that follow our photo guidelines. The photos you upload must be of the items in your possession that you intend to sell and ship.

Among its reasons for rejecting a photo are both shoes not fully in the frame, low light, a box or tag photo in which the SKU and size cannot be read, other objects in the shot, and:

Personal information shown in photos.

A shipping label on the box is the obvious case. GOAT does not give a size or format either.

Grailed

Grailed's help centre points to an Official Selling Guide for its photo standards, which loads only in a browser and which we could not read, so we quote nothing from it. Its Code of Conduct says:

Keep your listings honest and accurate. Make sure to highlight any flaws or distinctive details.

And its rules on offsite activity forbid "sharing contact information, social media handles, or referring others to other platforms in messages, listings, usernames, or elsewhere on Grailed", which rules out a watermark that carries your handle.

Vinted, if you list there too

Vinted publishes the plainest rules of the four. Its catalog rules say photos have to be taken by you, and:

They cannot be replaced with stock photos, photos from ads and watermarked images.

It allows up to 20 photos per listing, asks for the whole item in the first photo and close-ups of the label and stitching, and advises keeping your face out of the frame.

What the four have in common

None of the pages we read mentions EXIF, metadata or GPS. A photo taken at home carries its position, the time and the phone model in a block nobody sees until they open the file, and the copy you post to one site is often the one you post to the next.

One set for every site, in the browser

1. Shoot the pair as the strictest site asks. Both shoes fully in frame, good light, nothing else in the shot, the size tag and the box label readable, and every flaw close up. Cover or crop out the shipping label on the box.

2. Open SignetDrop, add the photos and untick the text mark. Vinted refuses watermarked images and Grailed forbids handles in listings, so the same unmarked set works everywhere. At Longest edge 2048 a 4032×3024 photo becomes 2048×1536, the free version's ceiling. SignetDrop never crops, so the tag stays in the frame as you shot it.

3. Download the ZIP. Each copy is drawn on a canvas and saved again from those pixels, which carries none of the original's EXIF across: no GPS position, no time, no phone model. Keeping EXIF is a paid option, works JPEG to JPEG only and is off unless you switch it on. Upload the copies to each site.

What this does not do

It does not edit the picture beyond size, so it cannot blur a label or a face; and it does not authenticate anything or check a photo against any site's rules. Whether a photo is accepted is for StockX, GOAT, Grailed or Vinted to decide, not us. Output above 2048px and larger batches are in the paid version, $29 once, with the full split on the pricing panel, and SignetDrop never writes its own name onto your photos. For Poshmark, Mercari and Depop, see our article on Poshmark, Mercari and Depop photo rules.

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