Customer Reviews
We Love It 
2008-10-05
When my husband got this for my birthday, I was disappointed. However, since I have repaired CDs and DVDs, I am so grateful!! CDs from high school (over 15 years)which I could not listen to are great again, DVDs that skip badly and ready for the trash are watchable again! Sometimes it takes 2-3 passes through the machine, (mine is electric) but it's great. I have even repaired some of the Netflix DVDs I have gotten.
I don't hesitate to recommend the $ be spent for this. I am sure, that until CD/DVD are obsolete, we will need a repair tool like this.
Works with games, but not with DVD for me. 
2008-07-02
I've used this to fix about 6 of my Xbox video games. One was so badly scratched I didn't think it would ever play. I had to run through the procedure about 5 times, but after that the game has played flawlessly. It doesn't remove scratches, but it improves them enough to make it readable. Unfortunately I tried this on a DVD and it made it unplayable. I don't know why. But it has worked great on games for me.
I miss it 2008-06-28
I had this for years, and it saved many, many CD's, CDrom's, and DVD's which had some mild scratching. I'm shocked at the negative reviews- the only thing I can think is that they did not use it properly. It requires a lot of water, and after the wheel has been used for a while it tends not to work well. It is only something you do AFTER your CD isn't working, so there is no way it could really "ruin" it (as the CD is already ruined!).
Try toothpaste & hairspray instead - it's cheaper and quicker. 
2008-05-05
I was psyched to fix the disks that made my stereo want to cry as they played one note over and over like a song at a bad rave.
You have to spend too much time on each disk if you want to fix your whole collection, or even part of it in one sitting. I made it through 10 disks before giving up (and my hands getting sore) the first night.
The product essentially works like this: it comes with a tiny spray bottle, and you crank the handle as the disc turns VERY SLOWLY, and the wheel inside that is lined with a cloth smoothes the spray into the scratches.
Effectiveness: It didn't fix my most-played discs, the ones with deeper scratches, but it did HELP with the rest (not good-as-new quality). I have had just as much luck with toothpaste and hairspray. Seriously.
Overall I would say it isn't worth the money, time or effort, and it made my hands too sore too quickly.
Thanks For The Warning 
2008-03-22
I almost bought this product, but there are too many negatives attached to it.
I went ahead and bought the $8.50 CD Fix It Kit (sold on Amazon)due to one 5 star rating. If it doesn't work, I'll try something else.
I have a movie soundtrack CD that got down on the floor of my car and ended up under the floormat....face down. It got stepped on a lot. I wanted to hear it tonight, so I put a thin coat of Vaseline on it, wiped enough off so that my player could recognize there was a CD inside it. It played very well until the big bass notes, then skipped. So it's not fixed, it just has a bandaid on it. I have heard of people repairing CD's with peanut butter too (not the nutty brand though.) To replace this soundtrack USED through Amazon would be $34 plus shipping, so repairing it is not out of the question. This CD is really, really thrashed. If the Fix-It can make it good again, I'll report on the results.
Does exactly what the name implies 2007-12-23
The SkipDoctor is the proven tool to repair the primary disc-related causes of screen freezing, booting problems, skipping and distortion in music, movie, game and data discs. Its patented radial polishing process does what wiping can't, which means you can often save your discs instead of ditching them. The process is fast, easy and it works... which is why over 3 million have been sold worldwide!
This product will RUIN your discs! 
2007-11-18
I used this product, and, yes, I followed the directions. The first step of sanding down the disc left a thin white residue and a lot of tiny scratches on the disc. The second step has you buffing the tiny scratches out. Most of the scratches seem to disappear when you look at it, but once you put it in your DVD player, the laser won't read it. I tried buffing it VERY smooth, and also cleaning my DVD lens. Still didn't work. I have to send my DVD to skippydisk to repair the damage done by this product.
If you look at the reviews, there is about a 50/50 chance that you will get it to work. Is this any kind of indicator as to what kind of company this is? I think so. Too bad I was in the half that couldn't get it to work...
Not want you expect, read on... 2007-11-17
The following item does not do exactly what you expect it to. Upon purchasing it, most people seem to think that it buffers out scratches and makes the whole disk look clean on the back, that is not the case. How it works, I suppose, can be explained by this example.
If you have a dollar bill that has some damage to it, you may find it hard to get the vending machine to take it. A trick some people know is that if you take a dollar bill, crinkle it up, then straiten it back out on the edge of the machine, sometimes you can get the machine to accept it.
This device works like that, it ends up "streaking" your disk with very obvious lines, but in the end, diminishes the severity of some of the other scratches. Sometimes it works, some times it doesn't. It depends on two things, the severity of the scratches and the quality of your dvd player, all being said, you need a pretty nice dvd player in order for any disk that has this used on it to be read.
I had one of these and used it for years, it saved a few of my cds/dvds, but thats about all I can say with respect to it.
saved many a disc from the trash 2007-10-06
doesn't work flawlessly, but it's saved multiple discs from the trash, but at that point what do you have to lose
This product is JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2007-07-26
This piece of junk should not even be able to be sold!It's a total misrepresentation of a product.I would of rated it a -5 but all you can choose from is + numbers.You might as well use a piece of sandpaper,it would do the same kind of quality of destruction this piece of junk will do!Please don't waste your money on this product unless you just have money to burn.It should be pulled off the shelves and should'nt be sold anywhere,total rip-off!!!!
