Clean an ipad smart cover

Hi
This is petty and my own fault but it's making me crazy. This Christmas I treated myself to a new ipad air2 with a red smart cover. That makes this not even 3 months old. I had the slightest thumbprint on my cover and with a black microfiber magic cloth and just a dampening of alcohol I tried to remove it and another mark on the cover. What happened was the color from the micro cloth seems to have to have stained my smart cover. I have tried every trick I found on the internet and nothing is removing the stains. It's just making me crazy that a tiny bit of rubbing of the cover could do this much damage. I've tried carpet cleaning, foam, light detergent, detergent spread on the stain and left to soak, oxi-clean paste to soak, erasers with no effective result.
The cover is plastic(polyurethene) how can you stain plastic and not be able to clean it up. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate hearing them.
Thanks
RL

It's a little late now but for future reference, you should only use some water and possibly some highly diluted mild detergent (like dish soap) for cleaning. Never use alcohol...it's unpredictable with what it does to different surfaces. Some surfaces are fine while others can react in a negative way.
As far as getting out that stain, I would try to go over the entire surface of the cover with the dish soap, not just the spot. You want to try to blend, not concentrate on the spot. If that doesn't help, I'm afraid you'll have to live with it or get another Smart Cover, with a lesson being learned.

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