Price Stickers

[phitter]

I am not sure what to do when I get a boxed game with the original price sticker still attached.

 

I used to take them off and gently remove the gummy residue; however, I started to leave them on thinking it was kind of neat to preserve evidence of the original (and often heavily marked-down) retail prices.

 

Is there a consensus on this? (Or does anyone even care? )

 

-phitter

[Foxsolo2000]

I used to attempt to remove them but recently I have left them on as you said, as a momento as to how little they used to go for

[black dog]

I leave them on for the reason you already mentioned. I like to see how the games were marked down and what they sold for back in the day.

[shadow460]

I peel 'em carefully and stick them somewhere inside the box. I want to keep them around, too, but I don't want them hogging up real estate on the front of my boxes.

[Bruce Tomlin]

If it's an original price sticker, as opposed to a thrift store price sticker, I leave them, especially if the price stickers are from the crash era.

 

For modern games, I take all the stickers and the dogbone and store them inside the keepcase.

[Uzumaki]

I've left price tags on merchandises. The oldest one I have with intact price tag is the Sega Rapid Fire Adapter for the SMS, it had a clearance sale tag of $19.99 from Canadian store (which would be about $1.00 US dollar back then)

[Foxsolo2000]

Picked up a sealed Real Sports Boxing the other day with the original price tag of £4.99 still on it.

[PressureCooker2600]

i leave em on....just got two boxed activisions yesterday with their 24.95 price tags on them......and from a place called Caldons, of all places.....anyone heard of that place? if i pick up games from a game store like Game-Xchange I carefully take the labels off cause they always stick em ON the fuckin label.........un-refined bastards

[moycon]

No way would I remove em. Even those big ass orange stickers Lionel Playworld would put on the discounted carts that took up a quarter of the box I'd leave on. It's cool to look back at a defender cart with a $34.99 price tag on it.

[shadow460]

Seems to me that most of the price tags come off easily. If they leave residue behind, that comes off with a damp rag and maybe some dish soap.

The worst price noghtmares I see are the grease mark ones written on the box. I find that in thrift shops all the stinkin' time. I know how to get most of it off, but it is rather difficult.

[homerwannabee]

I definetly leave them on. Who knows maybe these boxes with stickers will become more desirable one day.

[Dino]

I too leave 'em on. They look kinda cool and are usually small so they don't cover much of the box.

[video game addict]

No way would I remove em. Even those big ass orange stickers Lionel Playworld would put on the discounted carts that took up a quarter of the box I'd leave on. It's cool to look back at a defender cart with a $34.99 price tag on it.

 

 

Those definitely come off! But smaller tags are usually okay with me.

[Dragnerok X]

My answer to price sticker difficulties can be summed up in two words:

 

Hair Dryer

 

[Atari Charles]

I have found with stickers and even those nasty waxing gready crayons, Glue Gone works really well.

 

For myself I usualy don't remove original stickers as it isn't a big deal and it is interesting to see how much a game went for. If the sticker is not original when the item was new, then I remove it beause who cares how much the Salvation Army or Goodwill thinks such and such a game is worth.

 

Now for loose carts, I always remove the price sticker and any other gunk as the stickers were put on after the item was bought new somewhere else. Who cares that Vallue Village wants $2 per cart.