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Quoted from houseofpin:

Not bad because it includes the shipping. However, my "gut feeling" just based on what you can see is this is either a routed or heavily played HUO. I always worry when I see the rails around the flippers (mostly put there to hide the wear especially by retailers). The observation about the starter button wear also is telling. Most likely it is not nearly as nice as most HUO's but again they are technically pricing it at about $4,300 or so (when you back out shipping and EBAY fees that they are paying and possibly paypal fees). Being a smart retailer they probably bought it for mid to low $3's and put a little work into it. So most likely it is not a "pristine example".....you are most likely getting what you are paying for and if it was a local pinsider they would probably sell this game in the low $4's is my guess (but you would have to pick it up). My guess is the LOTR that EABUNDY sold was nicer (not HUO either) and I believe he was in the mid $4's if my memory serves me correctly (might have been low $4's). He is the BEST SELLER in my opinion and everyone always seems happy with his pins.
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR INPUT. VERY MUCH APPRECIATED as I had not seen an HUO LOTR come up all that often and never locally. Definitely one I plan to keep for a very long time !!! Will probably never leave my collection as it truly took me forever to find one.