The Bench

A functional claim needs a bench record. If a unit was run through its checklist, its item page lists what we checked and the date we did it, and every result — including the ones that failed, in red. A failed check is signal, so it stays visible.

Not everything gets a bench pass, and we say which. A sealed box is never opened, so nothing inside it is verified. A figure or a lunch box has no function to test, so we inspect and grade it and leave testing out of it entirely. As-is items in the Junk Corner carry no functional promise at all — that is what makes them cheap.

The checks are a starting point, not a script. Steps get added or dropped per unit — a console with no memory card in the box cannot have its save function checked, and pretending otherwise would be the useful-sounding kind of lie. Where a unit's log is short of the standard list, its bench page says which steps are not recorded rather than quietly leaving them out.