hello this is Jim and hey look what I just picked up at Goodwill it's a nice little sharp LCD TV kind of an older format I'm gonna hook it up to my Nintendo I have a little Nintendo 64 an old VCR so I figured it would work out pretty well for me but there's just one little problem right off the bat and the problem is right here in front I kind of zoom in right here and you kind of see this little mark right here it's uh let's see XXV it's not even a price but your these are very common on Goodwill items sometimes they're like white like this this looks like some kind of wax based pen sometimes you see a Sharpie mark on these things or other kinds of marks well these things can be really difficult to remove and can actually ruin the item you just purchased if you're not careful but I'll show you a quick trick how to remove a lot of these marks so before I show you the way I typically do it I do want to mention googan does work quite well here's a concentrated version here's less concentrated version one thing I don't like about the bukhan it's kind of leaves a residue a lot of times if you have to wash off later also you know just a simple eraser sometimes works you kind of rub it for a while and it disappears sometimes you can get ink based one racers that are designed for ink itself and those can be effective as well but sometimes these don't really work that well and the ink base ones sometimes have an abrasive in them that could scratch your item okay so my go-to product is just simple isopropyl alcohol this is 91% I you could also get just a 99% isopropyl alcohol just get some paper towels and we'll do it this is in a second and just kind of rub it out now this can also sometimes work on like cardboard especially the reflective cardboards let's say packaging it evaporates so quickly sometimes you can rub them out on cardboard and it won't cause any warping or degradation of the cardboard paper itself now more perverted pervious cardboard this may or may not work for you but for a product just like the sharp kind of a plastic case it should work just fine so what I do is just take a little bit of this isopropyl alcohol and apply it on a paper towel just like that that's soaked in and then with the price tag here you can just see it kind of rubs off pretty easy and it's virtually after a couple of rubs it is gone now if it doesn't go away right away sometimes I'd like to apply some i-44 Kalka haul - just some mr. Clean Magic Erasers they're just kind of a spongy product and you can apply some isopropyl alcohol to that and it gives it a little bit more abrasive work now this now if like a mark was on this monitor here rubbing this this could actually cause some scratching and you can get discoloration of the monitor also let's say if you got oh let's say an action figure toy that you got off eBay or something like that and there was a price on it and you're trying to rub it off of a the plastic you could perhaps create a little kind of a shadow effect so be careful with the Magic Erasers but quite often just simply the isopropyl alcohol with paper towel works just fine so I hope this video helped you out and good luck on your thrift purchases and I will see you next time bye bye