CD Scratch Repair Kits


I buy a lot of used CDs on the internet and was wondering if
anyone has found a good system to remove CD surface scratches without doing excessive damage to entire CD surface? I would only use this if CD surface had many scratches or heaven forbid actually had a skip. Anyone tried the Skip Doctor?
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I have used the CD doctor or skip doctor or Data doctor or whatever you want to call it. Its a cheap piece of plastic #$%^, and arrived partially broken, but it actually works!!! It buffs out scratches, some so severe that the disk would skip or stick at various points. Its a pain to use and rather laborious, but it has paid back its price in salvaged CDs and CD-ROMs rather quickly (I have a 12 y.o. son).
Obviously, it will depend on how badly they are scratched. In one case, the aluminzed layer was gouged out and no amount of polishing could fix that. But otherwise, it has fixed every CD or CD-ROM I've tried it on.