What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[A Smug Dill]

Two packages containing both pens and inks, one sent via DHL and the other via FedEx, are both being delayed in Singapore this week, with no more visibility given than, “a local issue”.

 

One of those contains a Pelikan M215 Rings (alas, I missed the boat on the versions with the far more interesting straight lines) I impulsively bought last week. The other, some impulsive buys from several months back; one item was ordered over six months ago and, no, it isn't a bespoke or one-of-a-kind pen that is only produced or finished some time after the customer placed an order with detailed custom requirements.

[VersoFolio]

Montblanc No.24

$5 NZ  ($3.50 US) at local 2nd hand store.

vf

[DrDebG]

12 minutes ago, Versofolio said:

Montblanc No.24

$5 NZ  ($3.50 US) at local 2nd hand store.

vf

Wow!  What an incredible find!  Let's hope that it is fully functional. 

[essayfaire]

18 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

Here for vintage pens:  Vintage Fountain Pens and Pencils (writetime.c

I think I probably shouldn't have known this if I am trying to avoid impulsive pen buying.

[DrDebG]

Several years ago, I purchased a Pineider Keys of Heaven.  Beautiful pen, but It turned out to be have some major issues and I returned it and received a full refund from the retailer.  

 

Well, yesterday, I decided spontaneously to give Pineider a try again.  I purchased a new Pineider La Grande Bellezza with a broad quill nib.  I got it for a significantly reduced price, yet if it doesn't work out, I know I can return it.   Here's hoping that it works out this time.  

[essayfaire]

37 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

one item was ordered over six months ago

I thought my postal problems were bad - I'm surprised the seller didn't reship the item!

[A Smug Dill]

22 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

I thought my postal problems were bad - I'm surprised the seller didn't reship the item!

 

It was never shipped in the first place, supposedly due to supply chain issues (not as in a blanket excuse, but more specifically that the pen was only backordered from the Taiwanese manufacturer after I placed the order, then months later when the first shipment received months later from the manufacturer turned up it didn't contain the pen I ordered, and the second shipment has yet to arrive, etc. in spite of repeated assurances that it was “en route”). Even now, after I pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed, the retailer allegedly secured me a unit of the pen from another retailer in the area, instead of waiting the second shipment from the manufacturer to turn up. Assuming that said shipment does not just contain my order, I'd hate to see how other orders (with that retailer) for the brand in question are being fulfilled.

[essayfaire]

24 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

the retailer allegedly secured me a unit of the pen from another retailer in the area, instead of waiting the second shipment from the manufacturer to turn up.

Was it supposedly in stock when you initially ordered it? I've had some supply chain issues creep up, but they were all for items that were originally pre-ordered a few months before they were due to arrive at stores.  Waiting so long seems to take the impulse out of impulsivity -- you might have second thoughts in the interim!  

[A Smug Dill]

38 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

Was it supposedly in stock when you initially ordered it?

 

Yes and no. The retailer had the pen I wanted in stock, but not fitted with the nib I wanted. It's a model for which, as I understood it, production has ceased, although quite a few retailers still had stock to sell, and I assume the manufacturer still had stock if it was still taking (back-)orders from retailers. Given that the pen's threaded, removable nib unit, which is also used in other still-in-production models, I thought the retailer would just order a replacement nib unit in the width grade I wanted, if the manufacturer don't have stock of the pen to ship factory-fitted with such a nib.

 

42 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

Waiting so long seems to take the impulse out of impulsivity -- you might have second thoughts in the interim!  

 

It's the colourway (out of four) for that model that I wanted most, and I already have the other three. Now that the model has been discontinued, I just wanted to ‘complete’ the collection (although I'd quite happily part with the one with the magenta-coloured body, even though it's a perfect match for some of my magenta inks).

[VersoFolio]

6 hours ago, DrDebG said:

Wow!  What an incredible find!  Let's hope that it is fully functional. 

Hi DrDebG. I've been using it continuously since 'the great soak' took place on Tuesday evening (South Pacific Time)! I dis-assembled it completely and that was fun! The cap is 'doing the job' but is very shabby and will need a replacement. (I see a few about). Piston is now active and I inked up with Montblanc 'Royal Blue', the 14k (F) butterfly nib performing very well.

This is my first look at MB models in this style and I am very happy to have the experience. It reminds me of the 'Monte Rosa'.

At $3.50 US I couldn't be disappointed no matter what.

I really appreciate my FPN friends to be able to share my news with you. Thank you (around here no one gets how excited I was)!😀

Cheers, vf

[ParramattaPaul]

7 hours ago, essayfaire said:

I think I probably shouldn't have known this if I am trying to avoid impulsive pen buying.

I might suggest my strategy for avoiding impulse purchases which is thinking Christmas first, and then a 'good boy' or 'celebrate surviving another year' Conway Stewart reward in the new year.  In all honesty I have to confess that Cult Pens got a low budget order from me last week.

[AmandaW]

I'm back on the horse for a pink Faber Castell Hexo EF.

 

This time from an Australian seller, not even on sale, but feeling hopeful that I will actually get it is worth a lot right now. Call it impulsive determination.

 

So now I really have to keep looking-trying-acquiring pink inks, since I will have yet another pink pen to feed.

 

Pretty.

[N1003U]

6 hours ago, AmandaW said:

I'm back on the horse for a pink Faber Castell Hexo EF.

 

This time from an Australian seller, not even on sale, but feeling hopeful that I will actually get it is worth a lot right now. Call it impulsive determination.

 

So now I really have to keep looking-trying-acquiring pink inks, since I will have yet another pink pen to feed.

 

Pretty.

 

If you haven't yet tried Pelikan 4001 Pink (now available in bottles!  ), I find it a pleasant enough color--to my eye it goes on a lovely medium pink, and dries a bit on the blue side, resulting in a somewhat magenta color.

[Calabria]

On 11/16/2021 at 6:56 PM, ParramattaPaul said:

Here for currently produced pens:  (1) Conway Stewart | Handmade British Pens | est. 1905

 

Here for vintage pens:  Vintage Fountain Pens and Pencils (writetime.co.uk)

Thank you. I thought they had gone out of business. These pens look lovely. I clearly have some catching up to do. 😃

[ParramattaPaul]

5 minutes ago, Calabria said:

Thank you. I thought they had gone out of business. These pens look lovely. I clearly have some catching up to do. 😃

They had gone our of business, but like so many other good things, they were brought back into existence (can't use the word 'resurrected' without risk getting banned).

 

Enjoy!

[inkstainedruth]

As if the five pens I bought last weekend at the Ohio Pen Show weren't enough, I went to order converters for the two P22s today, and ended up ordering a 100 ml bottle of Eclat de Saphir and (in order to qualify for free shipping) a Noodler's Konrad in the "Forbidden City" acrylic color pattern.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sharad Pratap]

Recently bought a Waterman Expert . It wasn't avalable in fine so I got it in a medium point. I paid ₹7000\- for it . I am a student and this was my most expensive pen yet. I was thoroughly disappointed. Medium nib wrote like a true thick broad. It also had a very pronounced baby bottom issue. The feedback I recieved from the nib while writing was very weird. And lastly it didn't work at all with my dry inks ( I only use dry inks for writing on cheaper paper - pelikan 4001 blue-black and bril blue). Couldn't return it back because I bought it while I was traveling. Decided to sell it or just give it away to any of my cousin or something. But after a few days I just got so mad at its poor performance that I just just destroyed it very thoroughly - took out the nib and feed and destroyed them one by one,then destroyed the converter,then destroyed the cap,barrel and the plastic section with the help of a plas. Then I put it back in the box and threw it away in the nearby garbage pond. Though I lost ₹7000\- I am not that sad ( I actually enjoyed the satisfaction I received while destroying it) and I learned a good lesson too....Don't buy things on impulse. 

Maybe I should start a new thread - ' What pen made you so mad that you just straight away destroyed it to kingdom come ?'😅

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, Sharad Pratap said:

Maybe I should start a new thread - ' What pen made you so mad that you just straight away destroyed it to kingdom come ?'😅

 

Not the whole pen, but my first Pilot Custom Heritage 912's 14K gold FA nib. I pulled it out and snapped the metal with my fingers, after a whole lot of frustration. That left a pen with everything but the nib for more than a couple of years, until I recently got a Pilot CH912 with a 14K gold PO nib, and just transplanted the nib-feed-section assembly onto the old scratched-up CH912 body.

 

1 hour ago, Sharad Pratap said:

Don't buy things on impulse. 

 

Don't buy things on impulse if the impulse came solely from hearing from other users (who cannot be assumed to be like-minded with oneself) that a certain pen or nib is great.

[brokenclay]

On 11/11/2021 at 4:22 PM, mizgeorge said:

I've just been looking at those - that looks like a gorgeous new colourway

 

It was waiting for me when I got back from a business trip today. It is darker/more purple than I expected, but really lovely. The 1.5 mm Jowo nib is a little balky and has more feedback than I like, but I've barely written with it yet.

 

[sharonspens]

1 hour ago, brokenclay said:

 

It was waiting for me when I got back from a business trip today. It is darker/more purple than I expected, but really lovely. The 1.5 mm Jowo nib is a little balky and has more feedback than I like, but I've barely written with it yet.

 

Very nice! I have two; technically both implies buysI suppose. I really appreciate their writing ability. 

 

Sharon in Indiana