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Worst case scenario is you'll just make your money back if or when you decide to sell it and declare the blemish. I highly doubt you're going to lose money on it as long as you maintain it well.
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Bit of trading feedback here.
1. see if Gibson will send you a duplicate certificate
2. If the sellers a nice guy and is willing to refund you, why not have a friendly chat and see if he'd be prepared to give a modest reduction say £100-200 or 5% or something. That way you'll feel a bit happier & he won't have the hassle of dealing with a return & relisting it and should Gibson charge you for a certificate (hopefully they won't) you've got any cost covered.
The COA issue probably would affect resale value. It might be worth printing off the communications with Gibson just to mitigate that a bit. That would probably stop it being a deal breaker for most buyers, but absence of the COA would no doubt affect the value a bit and gives them a bit of bargaining power. If you didn't buy it to make money though, try and let the negative emotion go and enjoy basking in all the positives of having your paws on that wonderful thing.
If so, keep it
As @gatheredinsong suggests above - If you have any positive info via messages with Gibson Customer Service then print this off and use it accordingly
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And, if you did sell it with a similar reduction, then I'm sure someone, like yourself, will snap it up.
Keep the receipt!
My Gibson Dove has a brown stain right across the logo where the previous owner left a capo clamped on it. However, it’s the best Dove - maybe the best acoustic guitar - I’ve ever played, and it was cheap. I’ve never once considered selling it. I also… er… sometimes put my capo on the headstock .
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I would try some T-cut on it as the stains from contact start at the surface and it may not have migrated all the way through yet. Sometimes they come off with a light buff, sometimes they don't.
It's the nature of nitro guitars and inappropriate stands. I wouldn't question it on a vintage one.
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Three options imo:
It wouldn't even really bother me personally.
My own guitar is in very much used (abused) condition.
Not thinking about actually selling it, just a concern if I did would it get hit which no one wants do they.
I just pulled the trigger on a good looking bargain then got a couple of surprises post purchase that left me with mixed emotions so sought the wise advice from the brain trust on here. On the plus side it’s an, ahem, absolute banger in person/in the hands.
This one is all I’ve been after in a LP for a couple of decades since I first saw pearly gates so don’t intend to sell whatsoever. If I ever did need to sell it’ll be worth what someone's happy to pay won’t it. If I sort the blemish and print all the details then I expect most would be happy with a couple of hundred knocked off for lack of CoA but proof it’s genuine. I know how I feel about it so if someone really would walk away because of a CoA theyd be bonkers