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by Nevermark 291 days ago
As long as, and some suppliers seem to find this onerous, the sticker can be peeled off cleanly.

(I once bought a grass rake with 2 or 3 dozen metal tines, and it arrived with a huge sticker across all the tines. Which when I attempted to peel off, left a scattered layers of paper hard glued to all the tines. Not happy.

Same with a rolling hot dog cooker. Glued “temporary” sales sticker covering half the transparent hinged top. Not happy.)

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Fender did this with my bass guitar. Trying to get the sticker off without scratching it was impossible, and even after using alcohol there's still some residue D-:
Goo Gone is your friend.

My usual flow chart: Nothing, water, alcohol, goo gone.

I’ve never ended up with a marred surface.

Tried that on the transparent cooker cover and it took off just enough of the cover surface with the sticker to look horrible.

Otherwise, yes!

+hair dryer heat, between nothing and water, can make a difference in a difficult peel.