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Post Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 9:58 pm 
 

Title says it all. On modules and magazines, should an attempt be made to remove them, or should they be left alone? If removing, what technique works best while protecting the item in question?

  

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Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 2:31 pm 
 

querion wrote in What to do with price stickers:Title says it all. On modules and magazines, should an attempt be made to remove them, or should they be left alone? If removing, what technique works best while protecting the item in question?


I am in the minority...

The price sticker adds to the provenance of the item, and should be left right where it is.


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Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 4:57 pm 
 

Unless you're reallllly good at removing them, leave hem where they are. Let the new owner handle it.


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Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 7:27 pm 
 

stratochamp wrote in What to do with price stickers:Unless you're reallllly good at removing them, leave hem where they are. Let the new owner handle it.


Sensible advice for any issue that I plan on reselling. For those that are being inserted into my collection, my dilemma remains. If I wanted to remove them, what would be the best method to go about this?

  

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Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 9:34 pm 
 

This really depends on the age, type, and location of the sticker.  Generally speaking, I won't even attempt at removing a sticker that's more than 10 years old.  For newer stickers, the secret is patience and small, evenly distributed picks and pulls.

  

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Post Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 11:25 pm 
 

Keep in mind, even if you remove it pristinely, you could have a discoloration underneath that will hurt the value. So maybe the better question is what affects the value more (negatively)?  A price sticker or a blemish/tear from where a price sticker once was?  It is almost certainly the blemish, so leave those stickers be.

  

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Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 1:18 am 
 

Like Skull stated - it depends on the age and type of sticker. Some stickers are almost impossible to remove with out taking off some of what it is stuck to.
Also depends on what the material is. If it's stuck to something Glossy or not.

Example of something I own, I have a Players Handbook that someone put a sticker on the cover and no matter how careful I tried, there was no way to remove the sticker without taking off some of the cover ink. If I tried it again, maybe if I would have put some alcohol on the sticker to loosen it up first, that might have worked - but I don't know.

If you take a sticker off and it still has some residue of the adhesive on the cover or box. You can use rubbing alcohol to carefully clean it off, but you take a chance of removing some of the ink also or at least dulling it.

Post some pictures of what you are trying to work on, it'll be easier to advise you on what to do.

  


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Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 7:58 am 
 

stratochamp wrote in What to do with price stickers:Unless you're reallllly good at removing them, leave hem where they are. Let the new owner handle it.


This. I would leave them be.

  


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Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 8:04 am 
 

Thank you all for the opinions / advice.

Mister Yuk wrote in What to do with price stickers:Post some pictures of what you are trying to work on, it'll be easier to advise you on what to do.


I will certainly do this, once we get settled into the new place (moving in a week).

  


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Post Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 11:21 pm 
 

I use lighter fluid. Works like a charm. There are other threads you can dig up on the various different approaches.

  

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Post Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 11:19 pm 
 

Goo Gone works like a charm, have used it on all sorts of books and modules.

A couple modules, I have left them alone as the stickers are old and I like the way they look.

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Post Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 12:26 pm 
 

I ruined a $30 book by removing a price tag on the cover with goo  gone. Tag came off but the texture/imprint from where the tag was remained and it looks worse. Now I will never try to remove a price tag. And since then I only buy items with tags that are new in shrink, with the tag on the plastic wrap. I wont buy with the tag on the actual book, even play copies.

  
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