What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Arcadian]

Well, I'll be impulsively bying my next pen in about 1,5 hours from now..... 

 

I walked in to a high-end watch store across the street from my new office just now, and they have a bordeaux 146 that's been gathering dust in the back of one of their cabinets, still listed at the original price! Since they wanted to get rid of it, they even offered me a discount! So I'll be picking it up for the tender price of about 456 USD! Didn't have my wallet with me, otherwise I would have bought it on the spot. Now I just have to patiently wait for the clock to run out on the official office hours..... 

 

 - P. 

 

 

[Arcadian]

1 hour ago, Arcadian said:

Well, I'll be impulsively bying my next pen in about 1,5 hours from now..... 

 

I walked in to a high-end watch store across the street from my new office just now, and they have a bordeaux 146 that's been gathering dust in the back of one of their cabinets, still listed at the original price! Since they wanted to get rid of it, they even offered me a discount! So I'll be picking it up for the tender price of about 456 USD! Didn't have my wallet with me, otherwise I would have bought it on the spot. Now I just have to patiently wait for the clock to run out on the official office hours..... 

 

 - P. 

 

 

 

YEEE!  I HAVE IT! IT NOW IS MIIIIINE! 🤩

 

 - P. 

[OldTravelingShoe]

2 hours ago, Arcadian said:

YEEE!  I HAVE IT! IT NOW IS MIIIIINE! 🤩

 

 - P. 

Well done, @Arcadian! Thanks for sharing. 

[bongo47]

19 hours ago, Misfit said:

I buy Retro 51 rollerball pens also. I had made a rule only to buy fountain pens, so lost out on the rollerball Liftoff. Eventually I lifted that rule, so the Space Race rollerball pens make up for not getting the Liftoff pen. The Retro 51 Roadmaster collaboration with the USPS screamed at me “Buy Me Now!” and I did. 

Yeah, I wouldn't call it a rule, per se, but haven't bought anything but fountain pens in years except another Retro 51 dog rescue for my daughter.  They are nice pens all around, and even though my kids go thru bouts of messing with fountain pens, they drift away quickly from them.  So for something like this, where I thought it would be fun if used by them, seemed like a time to branch out again. Now we just need to find the time to get back to our quest now that break is over.

[essayfaire]

47 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Well done, @Arcadian! Thanks for sharing. 

Having to go back to the store means you had to consider your impulsivity.  Congrats on getting such a good deal!

[Misfit]

Hurray!  My Sailor Pro Gear Slim Red Supernova with music nib has shipped. In an email conversation, Fahrney’s indicated the pen was in stock, and apologized for the confusion. They had great customer service, and confirmed it was the version with music nib. Joy! 

[Arcadian]

12 hours ago, essayfaire said:

Having to go back to the store means you had to consider your impulsivity.  Congrats on getting such a good deal!

Thanks! Bit of a bummer, though… It doesn’t write. At all. The nib separates from the feed too far when it touches paper, so the ink can’t flow to the tip. Back to the store, and then Hamburg, it goes. I DON’T WANNA WAIT 😭

 

 - P. 

[essayfaire]

11 hours ago, Arcadian said:

Thanks! Bit of a bummer, though… It doesn’t write. At all. The nib separates from the feed too far when it touches paper, so the ink can’t flow to the tip. Back to the store, and then Hamburg, it goes. I DON’T WANNA WAIT 😭

 

 - P. 

Do you know about all the studies showing that anticipation of things is often where we get our satisfaction/enjoyment.  E.g. preparation for a big trip to a foreign land is exciting and gives us happiness in a way that surpasses the experience of a last minute excursion.

 

So imagine how much you will enjoy writing with it when it gets back.  You still got a fab deal!

[OldTravelingShoe]

1 hour ago, essayfaire said:

Do you know about all the studies showing that anticipation of things is often where we get our satisfaction/enjoyment.

Not only I like this statement, @essayfaire, but also the complement in your signature, festina lente. 😎

[Mercian]

I ‘impulsively’ bought a Parker 75 off the ‘Bay (yarrr!).

It’s a French one, in the ‘Grain d’Orge’ gold-plated finish.

It is scheduled to get to me tomorrow.

 

I bought it even though I have a strong dislike of the colour of yellow gold, and even though I don’t like narrow/thin pens. And it was not ‘cheap’ either.

So, why the Vorsprung durch Technik have I bought it?

 

Because it matches (even down to its date code) the ballpoint pen that my dad bought for me for my 18th birthday.

He had wanted to buy me the FP, but at the time I said that I would prefer the ballpoint (), so he bought that for me instead.

I largely preferred the ballpoint because I thought that the 75 fp’s shaped grip-section and silver-coloured graduated ring next to its nib while most of the pen was very shiny yellow gold, made it look weird.
And because at that point the only experience that I had had with fps was with a cheap Platignum school pen that I had been forced to use when I was nine years old.
 

I will see how I get on with the pen, but I intend to keep it even if I don’t particularly enjoy using it.

Because I have bought it ‘in honour of’ my dad, and to remind me of the Folly of Youth 😁

 

[Gloucesterman]

10 minutes ago, Mercian said:

I ‘impulsively’ bought a Parker 75 off the ‘Bay (yarrr!).

It’s a French one, in the ‘Grain d’Orge’ gold-plated finish.

It is scheduled to get to me tomorrow.

 

I bought it even though I have a strong dislike of the colour of yellow gold, and even though I don’t like narrow/thin pens. And it was not ‘cheap’ either.

So, why the Vorsprung durch Technik have I bought it?

 

Because it matches (even down to its date code) the ballpoint pen that my dad bought for me for my 18th birthday.

He had wanted to buy me the FP, but at the time I said that I would prefer the ballpoint (), so he bought that for me instead.

I largely preferred the ballpoint because I thought that the 75 fp’s shaped grip-section and silver-coloured graduated ring next to its nib while most of the pen was very shiny yellow gold, made it look weird.
And because at that point the only experience that I had had with fps was with a cheap Platignum school pen that I had been forced to use when I was nine years old.
 

I will see how I get on with the pen, but I intend to keep it even if I don’t particularly enjoy using it.

Because I have bought it ‘in honour of’ my dad, and to remind me of the Folly of Youth 😁

 

Great story. Wishing that you thoroughly enjoy the pen and it brings back good memories of you and your father.

[mizgeorge]

28 minutes ago, Mercian said:

I ‘impulsively’ bought a Parker 75 off the ‘Bay (yarrr!).

It’s a French one, in the ‘Grain d’Orge’ gold-plated finish.

It is scheduled to get to me tomorrow.

 

I bought it even though I have a strong dislike of the colour of yellow gold, and even though I don’t like narrow/thin pens. And it was not ‘cheap’ either.

So, why the Vorsprung durch Technik have I bought it?

 

Because it matches (even down to its date code) the ballpoint pen that my dad bought for me for my 18th birthday.

He had wanted to buy me the FP, but at the time I said that I would prefer the ballpoint (), so he bought that for me instead.

I largely preferred the ballpoint because I thought that the 75 fp’s shaped grip-section and silver-coloured graduated ring next to its nib while most of the pen was very shiny yellow gold, made it look weird.
And because at that point the only experience that I had had with fps was with a cheap Platignum school pen that I had been forced to use when I was nine years old.
 

I will see how I get on with the pen, but I intend to keep it even if I don’t particularly enjoy using it.

Because I have bought it ‘in honour of’ my dad, and to remind me of the Folly of Youth 😁

 

Fab. I think you'll love it even if you hate it. 

[essayfaire]

3 hours ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Not only I like this statement, @essayfaire, but also the complement in your signature, festina lente. 😎

Aw, shucks. 😊 Hadn't even thought about that!

[mizgeorge]

I've been weak this week. A nice Pelikan M20 Silvexa arrived this morning, which I'm delighted with. Also in today's post was a Good Blue R615 in the new black/steel version. I've wanted to try one of these for a while, but they've always had a brass section, and I can't bear the smell on my fingers, so hopefully the steel one will be OK. It's definitely a heavy pen, but I don't expect to be using it for long periods of writing, it's more for playing with (so I got both the tipped and untipped version of the nibs. I'm very curious to see how the new polymer feed copes.

[A Smug Dill]

An F-nibbed Pilot Kaküno.

[AmandaW]

Is it OK, to put a 'pen-related' impulsive acquisition here? It was impulsive. (And the pen too is a recent arrival.) The old 'Diamond Point' (I think?) pen stand arrived a few days ago with a wobbly tulip/trumpet. The threads in the plastic needed repair, but that has been done and it's now better than new because it screws into metal rather than brittle plastic. The fix is invisible and nicely done: very sturdy and safe to change the angle etc without risk of further damage. And so pretty it was worth every effort to make it good for a new long life.

 

It interviewed my desk pens and found this NOS Platinum Y600 fits just right. (Does anyone know the model number? I call it a Y600, but I'm guessing that was the price?)

 

[A Smug Dill]

7 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

(Does anyone know the model number? I call it a Y600, but I'm guessing that was the price?)

 

I think the text on the round sticker reads,

プラチナ

万年筆

極細￥600

税抜き

The katakana at the top reads “Platinum”; the kanji between the horizontal lines means “fountain pen”.

極細 on the third line is ”Extra Fine”.

The rest means ”600 yen excluding tax”

[OldTravelingShoe]

5 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Does anyone know the model number? I call it a Y600, but I'm guessing that was the price?

@A Smug Dill has already identified the text. I can just add for now that the nib has the new Platinum logo, introduced sometimes in 1968. So, my guess is that it's an early 1970s desk pen. 

[A Smug Dill]

33 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

So, my guess is that it's an early 1970s desk pen.

 

Even as recently as 2019 (and perhaps later, as the product remained in the Platinum Catalogue for 2019-2020), Platinum was selling (DP-1000AN) desk pens with that type of steel nib for ¥1,000 ex tax. Would the pricing have roughly followed a trajectory of:

1970s: ¥600

1980s: ¥700

1990s: ¥800

2000s: ¥900

2010s: ¥1,000

or could the pen be more recent than that?

[DvdRiet]

On 2/13/2022 at 4:31 PM, DvdRiet said:

Welp........ my latest impulsive pen acquisition was - gee, what a coincidence - the blue MadC Esteem, the purple MadC Esteem (because at 60% off, why not get both?), and an Excellence A in Marrakesh brown (CT)...

 

After much (!) consideration yesterday, I ended up cancelling the "Excellence A" that I realized must be an A2 instead of the older A I was hoping it was, despite the fantastic price it was being offered at. Then I turned and in less than two seconds went on to very impulsively buy a nice white Excellence B that was still in stock from a pen retailer at more than twice the price of the Zalando Lounge deal (i.e., full retail)! 

 

Still getting the MadC Esteems though, so I guess it all still averages out to be a little less painful on the bank account.