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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ketjak" data-source="post: 2288623" data-attributes="member: 1083">Hi folks!Months ago I bought a Crystal Caste battle mat. I liked their dice if I don't use the funky ones, and it was the only really large mat in the FLGS. Well, I used it Saturday and it's terrible for holding wet erase (overhead projector) marker ink. Terrible. (I'm not complaining about the stray threads hanging from each end of the roll, but I might as well mention it.) Had I known they didn't hold markers well ahead of time, I'd've spent the $35 on a Chessex mat (special ordered, even) or, better yet, spent a little more on Tac-Tiles.Worse, some black wet erase marker ink (it "beaded" when I applied it, but I thought that was just the marker) has actually left a residual image on the map, and only a little fainter than when it's fully applied. I can't get that off, either - I'm used to red staining, and I've never seen black stain before.Does anyone have any advice? Is there some treatment I can apply to the surface to make it take the markers well? (Without resulting in permanent ghost-stains, either.) I feel like I've been taken advantage of, as it's not the quality for which I thought I was paying.- Ketjak</blockquote>