So picked up a frommer stop.. after a solid clean and oil she ran OK.. But a second shooter and she tanked. Do i fix a gun or just own a unique turd?

Im like 80% getting her refinished and worked over.

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I vote own unique turd. Boil and card conservation mark novak style. Replace weak spring if you can find them.  Then try shooting again.  How much do you really plan on shooting it?

or FDE cerakote with stippled grips and maybe some ports on the barrel through the slide(shroud?)to help with the recoil.  Could also dremel some flutes in the barrel to reduce weight and mill for an RMR. Saweet!

Refinish it, get it working, make it a shooter.  

Guns were made to be used.  I never understood why anyone would want a fancy paperweight.

Don't forget to post a range report and some post-gunsmithing pics!

ive had a few things done by them and its always tits....

Of course

I'd get it running but wouldn't mess it up with a "refinish".
https://jackfirstinc.com/frommer-stop-32-380-pistol

I would repair rather than refinish. Just get it in working order.

oil it, put it in a display case and take the Glock to the range.

That pistol is far from refinishing needed. Fix and run it.

This gets my vote.

My vote also.
My perspective on refinishing:
Take a $200 gun
Spend $200
Result
$200 gun
Don’t result in more value costs money and is pointless.
Keep them in working order but skip the refinish.

To answer the question of value, you'd have to know the market for that particular model. (I do not.)

Is your pistol (as it sits now) something a collector/buyer would be very interested in, or is it more bottom-of-the-barrel (as far as what's generally available)? If the former, refinishing would harm its value significantly. If the latter, refinishing probably wouldn't affect its value (and in some cases could increase it).

But refinishing is almost always a net value loss proposition, because if you take a shooter-grade example, currently worth $600 (random number) and refinish it where someone would gladly pay $750, but the refinish work cost you $200 then you're actually down $50 (assuming you sell it soon). Obviously the longer you wait, the more the dollar value would increase.

Of course none of this matters if you never plan on selling it, so do what is best for you.

I bought a refinished TT-30 at what I thought was a good price. I paid less than poor condition originals go for, and tremendously less than a nice condition original would've cost. I wanted to shoot it, so there was no reason for me to pay $400 more for an original with all the bluing worn off. It's not going to spend its time with me in a display case, so I'd rather shoot a nice looking gun that appears the way it would've looked if you went back in time and grabbed one. That's just me. Maybe the guy I bought it from lost money, but I doubt it. He didn't seem to know anything about it being refinished, and whoever performed the work did an excellent job.

I would get some Head and Shoulders dandruff shampoo for that keyboard issue.

Hang the gun on the wall, as-is.