Quoted from Khabbi:To be fair here, the question should be if you had 2 available POTC's and one had chipping/pooling and one did not and everything else was the same, would one be worth more than the other?
damage usually effects value!
Seriously, why even go inspect a used game in person if condition doesn't matter? Why show photos? Why are restorers like Kruzman and HEP overbooked? So those restored games should be worth the same as a routed beater with dings all over the cabinet and chunks of playfield art missing? Personally, I have yet to sell a game where the potential buyer doesn't look at the playfield. We live in a world where people pay thousands of dollars for a few additional color LEDs on a playfield, or an inert plastic topper on the backbox, but defects and chipping on the same machine don't matter? Yeah, right. Nobody is going to look at two of the same machine for sale at the same price and take the one with a trashed playfield over the one with a nice playfield.
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