Settle for a flawed pony or save for a mint one?

[nessa16]

I usually settle for a non-mint pony because A-cheaper which allows for more ponies and B-I don't mind ponies with some flaws.  I do not restore ponies, however.  I am too anxious to take their heads off even to clean them out even though I know I should.  I would be devastated if some of my more expensive ones were ruined because I could not behead them properly. 

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Settle. I bought a tail-less Applejack, a Hollywood with a chewed leg and a haircut, a Baby Sundance who turned out to be missing an iris... So many with flaws, all in the name of the purchase being cheaper at the time. If not for the 35th Anniversary reissues, I wouldn't have any mint G1s.