If it ain’t a hardtop or a vetted repro playfield, I’m not really interested. With a high caliber game like AFM though, it deserves a proper playfield swap, IMO.

I can completely sympathize with you though. I bought a whirlwind that had a playfield that looked like it was drug out of a lake, and I missed the boat on the first run of CPR playfields, and I wasn’t willing to accept the flaws of the second run. I ended up buying a decent secondhand playfield and sent it out to Captain Neo for restoration, and swapped that in. I was underwater on the game financially, and I’ll likely never see a return on it if I ever sell it, BUT I have a nicer-than-new original clearcoated playfield in my whirlwind, and there’s something to be said about that. You definitely get what you pay for in the end.