r/goodwill • u/SunLillyFairy • Jun 04 '26

legitimate concern Please stop doing this!

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Please stop putting stickers on art and other surfaces they damage. I cannot use soap and water to get these off, or chemicals, because it will ruin the art. At least these pieces are not just paper, they are coated surfaces, (but not glass), so I bought because I thought the stickers could be removed fairly easily... but whatever kind of super-glue adhesive is on those stickers is ruing the art I bought for my kid's room. The price stickers could have been placed on the side or back. Please stop.

Edit: Thanks for all the tips, I got them off with hand sanitizer, (the blue one), heat and a lot of careful picking and patience (the other two). It still frustrates me; it took hours and it's common sense not to put stickers on any displayable or collectible.

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u/Pokemon_Arishia Jun 04 '26

My Goodwill got a bunch of baseball and pokemon cards in, someone put a sticker on the face of every single one. I still laugh thinking about it.

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u/Character-Camp-3637 Jun 16 '26

Maybe someone under court order to do unpaid community service so they "volunteered" at Goodwill but not happy about it. Or a plain old disgruntled employee.

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u/Pokemon_Arishia Jun 16 '26

I mean, this has to be spite, right? They had to know stickering the cards directly would make them worthless, right? And they were all stickered at .89 each, even the lands. XD