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[goodcow]

From the low-budget Disc Doctor products to the higher end professional re-buffing machines at stores, are there any downsides to using them to get rid of heavily scratched discs?

I ask, because I just got a disc from an Amazon seller with a fair amount of scratches and a sticker on the front. Now he says he'll take it back and re-buff it at a local store for $3 which he does with everything he sells, but somehow missed this disc, and remove the sticker. Or I can get a refund. Since this is fairly rare, I might be better off just having him send it back when he removes the sticker/scratches as opposed to a refund, but I wonder if there are any downsides to it.

EDIT: He's paying the $3 to re-buff it, not me.

 

[koam]

Well, you're not gonna have the sticker anymore.. and a few scratches will be missing.. your loss.

 

[NotMSRP]

I don't know about other people but I can easily tell if a disc has been rebuffed or not regardless if the rebuffing is low-end or high-end.

Who is the seller so I know to stay away from him/her?

 

[tedtropy]

Occasionally I'll get a DVD from Netflix that has blatantly been buffered. I can only imagine that the more it's done, the less and less readable the surface becomes. While it may get out scratches, the surface is obviously nowhere near as pristine as it was originally.

 

[MomoPufflet]

Not that I know of, unless you're really anal about discs being in their original condition. When you resurface a disc the bottom outside edge becomes slightly rounded-- you can tell it was resurfaced, but it completely gets rid of the scratches.

 

[Pimpwerx]

Speaking of which, do they still sell those kits? I know they were way too expensive a few years back, like $30 for the kit. Lame. PEACE.

 

[BuddyC]

Some places back home actually charged money for them to use a Disc Doctor. Others had a really nice rebuffering machine.

It's been my experience that DC games won't work if they've been rebuffered via Disc Doctor. That's the only flaw I've found, though.