Fountain Pens From Aliexpress?

[zaded]

Hi, everyone,

I am a new fountain pen collector and i am collecting pens from around the world. I have come across aliexpress which have a lot of chinese fountain pens and international too, including parkers. But the prices are really low and infact too good to be true which makes me doubt their originality. Therefore, i need your opinion about whether they are original or cheap chinese remakes.

What do you all think about it? Has anyone bought pens from aliexpress, especially the Parkers?

[amarjit]

i have bought lot of boer fron aliexpress. Most of them turned up too be good. Buying expensive pen from aliexpress i think should be avoided.

[deepak23]

Hi, everyone,

I am a new fountain pen collector and i am collecting pens from around the world. I have come across aliexpress which have a lot of chinese fountain pens and international too, including parkers. But the prices are really low and infact too good to be true which makes me doubt their originality. Therefore, i need your opinion about whether they are original or cheap chinese remakes.

What do you all think about it? Has anyone bought pens from aliexpress, especially the Parkers?

If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is...

 

Sonnet and Urban are the most commonly duplicated pens (after of course the ubiquitous 'mont style' pens)...

[ppdiaporama]

I have been "promoting" the use of fountain pens in the office for a little while. A few weeks ago, some of my employees, curious, or just looking for a long lunch, asked me to take them to the pen store.

 

One of them is an avid AliExpress shopper. After the sales clerk had shown him a few pens based on his preferences, he settled on a Lamy Al-Star. But before bying, he said to me that he could find it cheaper on AliExpress and walked away. I was sad. A few mins later he came back ... and once we sifted through all the fakes, the real ones were only 1$ cheaper!

 

The fountain pen industry is small ... why not encourage your local (or national) retailers?

Edited April 4, 2016 by ppdiaporama

[zaded]

Actually i love buying pens offline if possible. I need to feel the pen before i buy it but these days, fountain pens are not kept by these stores as almost nobody uses them. This is articularly true in my locality. All that you may find are the cello disneys, reynold grippys, basically the cheapest plastic roller pen like ones, that doesnt even feel like a fountain pen. May be one day i will open my own pen store.