Removing Sharpie from DVD discs (label side) (1 Viewer)

[Bob Movies]

Hi Everyone,

I recently bought Punch-Drunk Love and One Hour Photo used from Blockbuster. When I got the discs home, I see that they've been marked up with sharpie marker - they have BBV and the disc numbers written on them. In addition to Sharpie, the PDL Disc is marked with some sort of gold pen.

Is there any solution that I can use to remove this writing without damaging the disc? Has anyone experienced this before when buying previously viewed?

Thanks!

Bob

 

[Tony Aguila]

That's happened to me... but I did it myself. I used to mark my DVDs with a Sharpie just to remind friends who borrowed them who they belonged to. But I stopped doing it... marking them, that is, but I still loan them out, to a select few friends.

I hope your disks were only marked on the inner hub, not the silkscreened label. Anyway, go to your pharmacy and get the purest grade isopropyl alcohol (98%, I think), and with Q-Tips, you should be able to carefully rub them off. I didn't think it would work either since those Sharpies are supposed to be permanent. But it works.

Good luck.

 

[Shayne Lebrun]

Also, try Goo Gone or Sticky Stuff Remover; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But this is what I use on my Blockbuster PVs.

 

[Johnny Jr.]

I second Goo Gone. I have used it on the blockbuster black sharpie and even the gold and silver pens that they sometimes used. Worked great!