To Sticker Or Unsticker?

[Shannon]

I just got a Pilot e95s and it has a sticker on the body of the pen indicating nib size, etc. Remove it? Or no? If I remove it, does it leave a residue? Or do they tend to come off easily?

 

[Olya]

They normally come off easily and leave no residue. I find Japanese stickers much better than Western stickers in that regard, they seem to use much better glue which is not a menace.

I always take off stickers off anything. I don't get why anyone leaves stickers on anything. They in many cases "burn" (for a lack of a better word) themselves into whatever and cannot be taken off or with much more hassle than at the beginning. And when you do take them off after a long while the body is of a different colour (b/c the rest darkened whilst you'll then have a lighter part where the sticker once was). Friends of mine leave stickers on their crockery!! FFS. And on glasses.. smh.

Anyway I take stickers off as soon as I can, sometimes as soon as I purchase things, right in front of the shop (books for instance).

In case I wasn't clear enough: take them off! Nib size etc is engaved on the nib anyway, it's not like vital info is on the sticker either. It's just for the seller to quickly identify the right pen, not for the buyer to keep as embellishment. It's not only harder to remove after a while, but defacing imo.

 

ETA: I see some leave stickers on b/c it's a brand (post below). My friends are just plain lazy, some of the stuff is just from Ikea. They sometimes don't remove tags from clothes, it's just H&M. Also washing clothes after buying is too much for some.... Being a brand obsessed snob is one thing, but being *that* lazy is a whole other.. Sorry for the little off-topic rant!

Edited July 16, 2016 by Olya

[FOUR X FOUR]

Oh yeah, take it off for daddy

[Ursus]

Always remove stickers from everything. I have once been given a drinking glass at a party with a sticker on it. I believe that's what Monty Python called social suicide. But perhaps the price goes to the girl who did not take off the Guccy sticker on her spectacles. Some people put flowers wrapped in plastic, perhaps with a florist's name on it on a sticker, into vases without removing the plastic (and for that reason I always tell florists to wrap flowers in paper in stead). A sticker says far less about the item that it does about the person.

[PAKMAN]

The only time I leave a sticker on is when I buy a new old stock pen that I intend to resale in that condition.

[Shannon]

Visions of Minnie Pearl!

 

Thanks, all. I'm currently stickerless....

[dasXFnib]

Visions of Minnie Pearl!

 

Thanks, all. I'm currently stickerless....

Minnie's "trademark" wasn't a gum label, though.....(Remember what the price was???!!!)

Paper tags on strings are MUCH easier to remove.....

Unless you're like Minnie....and wish to "wear it proudly"!!

 

Always try to get the dibs.....on fountain pens with EF nibs!!

[estie1948]

I have a friend with whom I smoke an occasional cigar. He always leaves the name band on his cigar and is aghast that I take mine off before I light up. It is simple snobbery to leave the band on the cigar. I smoke the cigar for my personal enjoyment and that enjoyment is not heightened it someone passing by should happen to notice what brand of cigar I am smoking.

 

It is the same with a fountain pen. If you don't plan on using the pen, but have, as Pakman has stated, secured an NOS fountain pen that you plan to sell, it is okay to leave on the sticker. Otherwise, do not leave the sticker on the pen.

 

Just my opinion and that makes it the opinion of an old man, whatever that is worth.

 

-David (Estie).

Edited July 17, 2016 by estie1948

[Ursus]

 

The only time I leave a sticker on is when I buy a new old stock pen that I intend to resale in that condition.

- I must admit that I agree on that one: If I bought a pen I did not want, I would leave the sticker on as well.