Someone recently posted an interesting question about why one would buy an expensive fountain pen when some of the cheap pens work very well, which precipitated an array of answers and discussion. This made me wonder the reverse. For those of us who have (what we consider) expensive fountain pens...why are we drawn to buy cheap fountain pens, especially after the need to have a few pens to take to work or leave in bags without being overly distressed if they are lost or suffer a few scratches is satisfied? I'm not talking about buying some fantastic vintage gold overlay wet noodle for $12 but getting inexpensive Chinese pens, or perhaps the 4th Kaweco sport, or second Safari....