Dude, come on. At least pretend that you did more than skim my post. I said “I know you’re specifically miffed by advertising stickers, but I don’t care about those either. The way I see it, stickers make no difference either way unless they’re distracting. If a sticker is annoyingly bright or covers the product in an intrusive fashion, that is, one that hinders usage, I’ll take it off. Otherwise, I just honestly don’t care. Fortunately for you and your delicate sensibilities, I seldom come across stickers on the actual item itself as opposed to the packaging.”
So I get what you’re saying. And I’m just saying some people don’t give a crap about stickers, marketing or otherwise.
For those that aren’t just lazy or don’t care, I think they are trying to hold on to the ‘brand new’ feeling. There is often some amount of buyer’s remorse with a purchase, but the sticker reminds you that it goes up to 11 so your purchase decision was correct. When you remove the sticker or film, you have fully committed.
I vandalize cars to remove dealer badges. The .com vinyl lettering on rear windows offers some anagram opportunities, but often the letters smush or don’t reattach well. I got caught once and the owner was rightfully upset at first, but after a moment they realized that I was correct and accepted my offer to remove the license plate frame as well (I also removed the “ate a Ma.mom” I was constructing). I only hit newer cars as some older dealer badges use holes drilled through the body (assholes) and older glue can leave remnants.
Most of my items get stickers removed except computers–I do put/leave the stickers because it lets me know what is inside. Plus it intimidates people knowing there’s Ripjaws or Patriots inside there.
I often try to see how long the protective films will last, but once they start peeling they go.
C’mon, where’s your competitive nature? You should look at them as a challenge.
You know how whenever someone gets in a car wreck or gets hit by lightning or something and it quite literally knocks their shoes off? I think I’d like to try fucking someone so good that when we got through their sneakers had flown off and were lying on the other side of the room. Bonus points I guess if you also knocked the sticker off their TV.
To me, leaving the stickers on gives me the impression that the owner does things half-assedly. Taking the marketing stickers and protective films is part of setting the appliance/TV/what have you correctly; do you also leave the window sticker on your car when you buy one?
In my mind, they’re the same people who don’t read the manual, and who call up customer service lines to bitch about some problem that the manual explicitly explains and warns against.
Not really. In most cases, I would consider a bright, red sticker that takes up 30% of the product’s surface annoying, but my credit card stays in my wallet all day long, and I probably only see it for a grand total of 30 seconds per week. I don’t care enough to remove it, and the sticker doesn’t affect its ability to buy me drinks.
I go too far the other way: I cut the labels out of the collars of my shirts.
(I think it looks so damn dorky when people leave them in…and they flip up and are visible!) I use a razor and cut the embroidered logos off of things like shopping bags. And sometimes, if I can’t get rid of a label, I’ll make up a fake one and glue it over the real one! I make up fake company names and “brand” my chattels with them.
(My computer is from “The Saltarello Electronics Corporation,” for instance, and my Kindle is a “Looking Glass Book Reader.”)
My sense of ironic humor doesn’t work well online. Oops.
I really don’t like labels on things myself, and I take them off religiously when I buy a new product. I already paid their advert bill once, no sense in giving more away for free, right?
It just doesn’t bother me much to see other people not doing that though…
Well, my 2012 Sonata is a pretty regular daily driver type, that’s for sure. Not a show car or anything like that. Other than de-badging it, there’s really nothing aftermarket about it. I just hate logos, I guess.
My brother-in-law’s shop did a pretty good job, which is why I took it there. I was afraid of exactly what you describe, and decided not to do it myself for that reason. In all honesty, I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the work. I have yet to find a lighting situation where you can see the patch around where the logo and words “Hyundai” & “Sonata” used to be. He says their roughly ovaloid and cover an area extending about two inches out from the work. But seriously, I have to take his work for it. Considering the paint has a somewhat pearlecsant finish, I have to say they did a good job…
As for Dealer Stickers, lol, I have even less patience for those!
Me too!
What an awesome Idea! I may shamelessly copy this sometime!
So why aren’t you sharing your talents with the world? I know computer geeks that would pay good money (I guess as opposed to some other kind) for say, a sticker like the ‘Intel inside’ one but with a picture of a hamster instead of the word ‘Intel.’
