That definitely makes sense.
Does the same sort of degradation in value happen if, for instance, a well meaning spouse polished a bass on a weekly basis? This is something I recently ran into; an old German bass that looked half its age and shiny due to the regular "maintenance" of the finish over the past 50 years.
My suspicion was that years of polish, or whatever product that was used, is probably built up in every crack, cranny and seam making any future repair even more of a challenge.
And as for buying being easy... Oh yes. All too familiar lol. I'm already 4 deep. Luckily I only have to worry about selling one of them which I bought to resell anyways.
