The laser is there, but I have no idea if it works. There are some screws missing on this thing. The main boards look good, no blown caps. The shell looks good but I suspect the post that held the cd drive in place were repaired at one time, as a couple of them have epoxy around them. There is no damage on the outside area of the shell, so I can not gauge what the epoxy was laid out for on those post, if it was minor cracks, etc, or if the prior owner was worried they were not sturdy enough to hold the laser or what. They feel stiff to me.
I couldn't begin to place any real value on this thing, and I think it should only be looked at as for parts, to either help repair another system, or to gut and use to make a CMVS. I'm not going to piece it out. Whoever wants it needs to take the entire thing. I'm not positive, but I am thinking this came to me as a junk item from Hit-Japan. It has been probably 5 years since I screwed around with the thing.
I had like 5 Neo Cd decks at one point and I recall two of them being bought as junk items for parts, at around 40 bucks each. I just don't know if this is the one that came from Hit-Japan or not, but I suspect not because I don't think they would have sent it missing screws and shit. Anyway, I wouldn't say for me it would be worth more then a couple games or whatever, and even at that point just as motivation to make me pack it up and pay to ship it out, since I would be responsible for shipping cost also.