I like the dinged corner. It distracts from other possible issues.
Who could possibly look at the condition of that manual and believe that it's never been opened?
If you’ve never purchased a CD before you might not be able to tell and many of the noobs fueling this bullshit market are in that catagory. OGs who have opened litterally thousands of CDs over 30+ years know what real is, what process print looks like, what CD-Rs look like. Any weird gloss or print artifact throws us off by reflex. When it comes to something like PCE games which were all pressed in a short span of time by a small number of shops you can easily SMELL if it’s real or not. It doesn’t even take effort.
Noobs don’t know though. All they know are buzz words and dollar figures.
When it comes to vinyl records the manufacturing technique varies almost with every release or even a reprint of the same thing. I guess I can imagine someone thinking maybe CDs are made like that, sloppy and variable (but they aren’t).
