What ink(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[AmandaW]

Two Van Dieman inks: Pepperberry and Hailstorm. I have had a sample of Pepperberry so it was on my wishlist, the Hailstorm is a guess...

 

The order is really about stocking up on some hard-to-find pencil leads, the inks added to spend enough to get free shipping. Besides, leads are useful but kinda dull, ink is fun. 💙💚

[Penguincollector]

I just added a bottle of Monteverde Iced  Cookie. I’m chasing a memory, the teal Berol Fontaine ink. @Sailor Kenshin recommended GvFC Deep Sea Green, but every time I look for it, no one has it in stock. This one looked comparable.

[Sailor Kenshin]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

I just added a bottle of Monteverde Iced  Cookie. I’m chasing a memory, the teal Berol Fontaine ink. @Sailor Kenshin recommended GvFC Deep Sea Green, but every time I look for it, no one has it in stock. This one looked comparable.

Did I recommend that?  I'm trying to remember what the ink looked like in the Berol, but for some reason I'm thinking it was a dark blue-black.  I loved it.

 

That was from an era where there were many art supply stores within a short drive.  And they all had those Berol Fontaines.

[Penguincollector]

There was a  pinkish red, a teal, a black, and a blue black- I think.  I had those colors, at least.

[Sailor Kenshin]

24 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

There was a  pinkish red, a teal, a black, and a blue black- I think.  I had those colors, at least.

 

Ohhhh....maybe I had the blue black?  I still have a pink and a brown.

[Penguincollector]

2 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

Ohhhh....maybe I had the blue black?  I still have a pink and a brown.

I don’t remember the brown, that’s cool!

[A Smug Dill]

 

Why do I get the feeling that the AliExpress seller suddenly realised he/she does not want to be selling these inks so cheaply? The free shipping offer has been discontinued (only for this item; other items such as Jinhao pens are still free) shortly after I placed the order, and the seller has also raised the price (higher than when these first caught my eye many weeks ago, but I was holding off for the low point, and my ‘patience’ paid off).

 

The same order today would cost me 73.5% more.

[XYZZY]

6 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Why do I get the feeling that the AliExpress seller suddenly realised he/she does not want to be selling these inks so cheaply? The free shipping offer has been discontinued (only for this item; other items such as Jinhao pens are still free) shortly after I placed the order, and the seller has also raised the price (higher than when these first caught my eye many weeks ago, but I was holding off for the low point, and my ‘patience’ paid off).

 

The same order today would cost me 73.5% more.

What gets my attention about the bottles it’s not how much space there is in each, but that they appear to be filled with different amounts of ink. Did you sample some before taking the bottom picture?  Did they?

[A Smug Dill]

47 minutes ago, XYZZY said:

Did you sample some before taking the bottom picture?  Did they?

 

I haven't opened the bottles.

[fireant]

4 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

I haven't opened the bottles.

 

Yikes.

[A Smug Dill]

6 hours ago, XYZZY said:

… they appear to be filled with different amounts of ink.

 

I'm not going to bother checking each bottle, but nagged by the feeling that I'd been shortchanged — never mind that the inks are cheap — I emptied (as best I could) the contents of the bottle of Sunny Orange into a beaker that was sitting atop digital scales. I got 29.00g; and the meniscus of the ink level was close enough to the 30ml mark on the beaker's wall.

 

(Beforehand, I checked whether the 30ml mark corresponded to 30.00g of filtered water in the beaker. Close enough.)

 

So, I have no real cause for raising a dispute with AliExpress, even though visually it's very… dissonant with one's expectations of a “new” bottle of ink as an off-the-shelf retail product.

 

I also note that, while the form of the Jinhao bottle closely resembles that of the Montblanc 30ml bottle (of Lucky Orange, that's what I have here), the former is physically larger, and more of a “35ml bottle” that can probably hold 40ml of liquid if filled to the brim.

[essayfaire]

On 5/9/2023 at 12:10 PM, A Smug Dill said:

 

Why do I get the feeling that the AliExpress seller suddenly realised he/she does not want to be selling these inks so cheaply? The free shipping offer has been discontinued (only for this item; other items such as Jinhao pens are still free) shortly after I placed the order, and the seller has also raised the price (higher than when these first caught my eye many weeks ago, but I was holding off for the low point, and my ‘patience’ paid off).

 

The same order today would cost me 73.5% more.

This looks very strange, indeed.  I would not be pleased.

[Misfit]

Because of the Cult Pens birthday coupons, and very reasonable prices on Diamine inks, I ordered quite a few 30ml bottles. Those include Lavendar, Mediterranean Blue, Eau de Nil, Celadon Cat, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza, Colosseum, The Great Wall of China and Petra. 

[dd99]

I also took advantage of Cult Pens current discounts and am waiting for some Diamine Inkvent "Solar Storm" and Diamine InkVent "All the Best".

[gmax]

I am waiting fro KWZ Maroon (my second bottle), and KWZ Old Gold, a new-to-me colour 🙂

[Stompie]

I got my Diamine Writers blood this morning to try in my new Pro-Flex nib from Tom's Studio.

I have no idea what he has done when manufacturing this nib and feed unit but it can cope well with the ink demand of the Zebra G nib!

 

 

[AmandaW]

Sailor Doyou and Taccia Nakamurasaki have been ordered to get free shipping (on a Sailor mechanical pencil). The Doyou will be a spare, but the Taccia is new for me. 💜

[Penguincollector]

I just got my mail, these Geha cartridges from missing-pen.  I’m excited to try and reconstitute the dried ink once the giant Lamy cartridge runs dry. If it’s a fail, then they will get rinsed out and refilled with something pretty.

[midnightblues]

I finally caved and bought some ESSRI, and a few empty Herbin bottles for decanting. I'll keep it in my sideboard so nice and dark in there. I want to try the ESSRI in my Yookers fineliner as I'm still trying to find the perfect, permanent, smudge-resistant ink. PCB clogged it solid, to the point where I had to chuck the nib unit. It's currently contemplating some Heart of Darkness, which seems to be a bit hard starting. I'm looking forward to bunging it into a nice wet Benu M as well, I think it might be noteworthy in there. 

 

Next job is to try and use up a bottle of something. I've had to buy another ink box. I recently had a run on some Diamines as well, and Rikyucha which I am liking immensely. 

[AmandaW]

Just now, a couple of Teranishi inks - Antique Black and Traveling Sepia. I do have a sample of the black and really like it. The sepia will be a surprise.

 

And Montblanc's Vincent ink. I was surprised and delighted to be asked if I would like it as a birthday gift.