Let's skip to the part when someone says "well *i* wouldn't wanna open that up and see battery damage all over the boards! Buyer is taking a HUGE risk!" and then skip straight to the part where I chime in with "who really cares? You can get a new board for $200. Someone who gets a nib black knight really isn't gonna be concerned with that - in the scheme of things it's completely insignificant."

Also I would say "by the way in 15 years in this hobby I've seen a dozen or so of these vintage NIB sales and not once has any of them ever had a battery damage issue."

I think I covered it and you are welcome for saving all of us the posts needed to discuss this issue.

I think most people have figured that out.

The lucky buyer of this game will either buy it because he thinks of it as an investment, or he'll buy it to have the nicest original BK on the planet.

Either way, someone with $7000 or so to blow on this thing really doesn't give a shit, nor should they, and isn't having their world rocked by the suggestion that it may have battery damage (a completely minor inconvinience), or they may lose money upon opening the box (just like a toaster, car, or anything else you can buy). They know all of this stuff.

It's a friggin NIB Black Knight. The game was made a quarter of a century ago. That's pretty cool.

And now to the finer nuances of your point...nobody is losing $6000 by opening the box. You seriously think this game is suddenly worth only $1500 because he's opened it? It's still a mint condition HUO Black Knight, and it will still be worth several times your run of the mill nice Black Knight.