On the underside of the laptop, they covered over some discolorations left over from old stickers with a laptop-sized sticker cover.  This would have been ok, except whatever brand they are using is constantly giving off a bad volatile-organic-chemical smell.  You can smell it from 10 feet away.  If you gently touch the cover, you can smell it on your hands till you wash them.  No amount of washing the surface of the sticker cover got the smell to go away as it seemed to be continuously seeping out.  Thank god I just now figured out that it was a fake surface in the first place and just pulled the damned thing off and threw it away.  I can't speak much to the refurbishing ethics of using a sticker cover over minor imperfections like this.  But, in any case you've GOT to stop using whatever brand of sticker cover that is.  It smells terrible and might even be downright toxic!