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When I worked for Gamestop I shared my own method on sticker removing with customers. Of course, in classic Gamestop fashion, I would get in trouble for this.
do tell!
I wonder if it works on the stickers stuck onto the manuals? I have a couple of preowned games that I've managed to free of cover stickers, but the ones on the front of the manual will tear the paper if I try to slowly pull it off. :\
It should work. The heat basically loosens the glue so it theoretically, blast it or heat it long enough and it should just fall off on its own accord
Usually I'm pretty good at getting them off the case without any problems, but every once in a while I lose a corner and half the sticker goes with it. I'll remember to file this one away.
I wish I knew this a year ago...a few of the gamecube titles I picked up for cheap have res all over them. I usually try to avoid buying used, especially from Gamestop, but this is definitely useful for some occasion in the future.
Ewww who buys from GameStop?
@Cadtalfryn: Using a pencil eraser helps remove sticker residue from the cases. Just don't go too crazy or you'll wind up with eraser smudges instead. Wash it off with a little bit of water and you should be fine.
I'll be sure to remember the hairdryer method.
Or just use adhesive solvent.
Or use fire.
Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to even watch the video.
...And also I don't a hair dryer.
When I buy used games, I usually leave the stickers on anyway.
*don't own a hair dryer, that is.
I don't know how I always miss these things in comments.
De-solve-it is the best thing for removing labels.
This is handy, as I don't want to leave them on the case, making the cover art look stupid with all the stickers, which in turn makes me look like a fool. A fool like Milis.
Lighter fluid is without a doubt the easiest to find substance to wash away the adhesive. I believe it acts as a solvent to wash it away, but that means you can leave streaks if you wipe it haphazardly.
I recommend squirting a bit of lighter fluid onto the case/paper insert, then wiping it toward the nearest edge with a lighter-fluid-damp cloth, using a different side of the cloth for each wipe. Repeat the process two or three times and everything should be cleaned away.
The lighter fluid has a very high evaporation rate, causing it to completely disappear within seconds, and leaves no residue of its own on the materials. This might not be as easy as blow drying a sticker on a case, but if you've already unsuccessfully peeled stickers, it works wonders on cases, paper manuals/inserts, or essentially any material you'd like to clean.
@Diverse:
Anyone with little or none other option, like myself. It ain't perfect, but suffice.
This is what I need. My covers look like a million germs had a party and repeatedly threw up on it. It's small but ugly.
Wow. I guess I can put the Goo Gone away. That stuff is messy and greasy.
I just use duct tape.
However you do not want to use it to get a sticker off a manual.
That's largely useless. When stickers are newish they're piss easy to take off. When they get a year or 2 they're fuckign impossible without massive work, so bitching will continue :P
@Dao2-SKP - I'd still recommend lighter fluid for old stains as well! It works wonders as a solvent for adhesives!
Yeah was gonna say was DAO2 said, this works wonders on newer games since the stickers are fairly fresh, hell half the time you don't even need the blow dryer. But if you buy some 5 year old ps2 game be prepared for several hours of work and solvent trying to get the stickers off. The old square gamestop stickers are by far the hardest fucking ones to remove. Oh and one other thing, your lucky as your gamestop aren't full of assholes as your spine sticker was just slipped into the case, where as at most of gamestops in my area that decide it's much more awesome to actually stick the sticker onto the cover art's spine which will potentially damage the paper sleeve if your not super careful in removing it.
...wut?
I bitch about the stickers...but I just peel them off slowly. If people stopped trying to be in a rush to pull them off, they'd come off right clean 8/10 times.
either way. All this could be said for ANY used store business. Gamestop is just special because kids wahhwahhwahh on the internet about it.
Holy shit, commenting again to thank Arttemis for the lighter fluid suggestion, that just worked fucking wonders on my copy of Panzer Dragoon Orta which looked like shit thanks to a bazillion really old stickers not coming off, for anyone with old cases with tons of sticker residue do was Arttemis says, I'm about to go through my whole collection now and find all those cases I failed miserably at removing stickers from!
I hate those fucking stickers.
PROTIP:
Those circle clear stickers they use to "seal" used games? Ask the clerk for one, and take off the regular yellow sticker, and use the clear sticker to take off the remaining residue.
Or go to blankmedia.com (.ca?) for some pristine cases, $30 for 100!
Good job! The hairdryer thing... so obvious it hurts that I didn't think of it sooner! My only complaint however is the fact that most people love to put those damn stickers RIGHT over the summary of the game/book/whatever. That drives me absolutely nuts when I'm trying to figure out what a game is about and I keep running into price stickers and such!
I slowly peel off the sticker and then use the sticker itself to bring up the rest of the residue. What I can't pick up with the sticker I use window cleaner and a tooth brush to remove.
What Brlito and ThunderheartXI said.
Keep heated air well away from the dvd cover.
Yeah, every time I've tried this it gets the plastic under the sticker so hot that when I pull the sticker off it warps the case itself.
And yeah, the worst thing is when they pull the paper cover art out and put the sticker directly on that. My copy of Ico is like this, it always makes me cringe.
@arttemis unforunately gamestop (or at least the 2 in the mall near me) have gotten to putting stickers UNDER the plastic cover and right ontop of the paper insert, and I fear that it'll rub off/stain it :(
I'll give it a go on some crappy game ;p Btw if it's because of the fast evaporation I might all try some 98% isopropyl.
There's always using a wet wash cloth and soaking the stickers with water before removal but that doesn't guaranteed that no residue will remain behind.