How Much To Stockpile Of Your Favorites?

[Fekete]

10 hours ago, TSherbs said:

It's wisdom, not mandate.

 

Wisdom happens when one finds somebody else agreeing to his views.
Mandate happens when one brands his views as wisdom, implying inherent supremacy.

[MuddyWaters]

Seems like a lot of people are either missing tsherb's point here or arguing for no reason... 

[sirgilbert357]

4 hours ago, MuddyWaters said:

Seems like a lot of people are either missing tsherb's point here or arguing for no reason... 

 

Sorry, I enjoy philosophical discussion and probing the "why" behind the way people think the way they do. It's also interesting to ask someone how they justify a given view if I don't find said view consistent for some reason. I'm also a very detail-oriented person and words and phrasing matter to me. His view doesn't "offend" me, but I don't see an intellectually consistent way to ground his argument for it. That could be because it's tied to his spiritual views and the discussion hasn't gone there (and I'd assume it to be unprofitable for it to do so). It's definitely off topic though, and I'm done with that rabbit hole now. That's "discussion" though, I don't see the spirit of it as "arguing". The way I "argue" would look MUCH different, LOL.

[sirgilbert357]

4 hours ago, Fekete said:

 

Wisdom happens when one finds somebody else agreeing to his views.
Mandate happens when one brands his views as wisdom, implying inherent supremacy.

 

Thoughts worth considering. 👍

[TSherbs]

13 hours ago, Fekete said:

 

Wisdom happens when one finds somebody else agreeing to his views.
Mandate happens when one brands his views as wisdom, implying inherent supremacy.

 

<rollseyes>

[TSherbs]

13 hours ago, MuddyWaters said:

Seems like a lot of people are either missing tsherb's point here or arguing for no reason... 

 

sometimes it's tough to swim against the consumerist tide here

 

I've tried it before: about the same result.

 

<shrug>

 

 

 

[samasry]

Hoarding  ink  is fun, till you run out of space and such.

[sirgilbert357]

11 hours ago, TSherbs said:

 

sometimes it's tough to swim against the consumerist tide here

 

I've tried it before: about the same result.

 

<shrug>

 

 

 

 

I had the same results on the old watch forum I used to frequent. We had a dedicated annual thread titled "WPAC: Watch Purchasing Abstinence Club" -- the idea was to post up a watch you were considering buying (even though you knew full well you had enough already) and have others "bash" it, or tell you all of it's faults and try to convince you not to buy it. We had a large group of core posters; I was a regular poster and frequently helped bash others' choices/encouraged them not to buy. It worked well enough for those committed to the idea of downsizing / not buying something (but who just got tempted once in awhile). It worked so well for me that I actually downsized my collection massively and ended up never even signing on to the forum anymore. It kind of killed off my entire desire for the "hobby". I still have one more watch I almost never wear that I need to sell...just lazy and haven't done it yet.

 

Anyway, I'm usually very practical and typically only buy what I intend to thoroughly use. I let the watches get out of control, but fixed that. My pen collection is growing, but I use them all and plan to give them to my kids when they are older. I don't have much else to hand down to them. I don't wear jewelry (besides my watch). My pens / writing are my one "hobby" besides fitness and weight lifting. And despite my recent pen purchases, with the ones I plan to give away to unsuspecting noobs at the upcoming Dallas Pen Show, I'm actually "one in/one out" as a whole. I only have 15 colors of ink, with duplicate bottles for two of those colors because of scarcity. Some of those colors were given to me (2 of them) and a handful of them won't be replaced if and when I ever use them up (just didn't like them, but trying to force myself to use them in the work pens, etc).

 

If that's avarice, I guess I'm guilty. We can agree to disagree. LOL.

[tde44x]

I have way more ink than I will ever use in my writing - to many purchases from CultPens (I'm talking about you, Diamine) - and I love variety.

 

Only ink I have more than one bottle of was due to my mistake in ordering it twice (on the same order) by accident.

[samasry]

3 hours ago, tde44x said:

I have way more ink than I will ever use in my writing - to many purchases from CultPens (I'm talking about you, Diamine) - and I love variety.

 

Only ink I have more than one bottle of was due to my mistake in ordering it twice (on the same order) by accident.

 

Each time I want to buy a $7  Diamine bottle of ink  from CultPens, I have to buy a $500 pen with it  to avoid the shipping charges.

 

Alternatively, I have to buy another 15 bottles of ink as another way to avoid the shipping charges.

 

As Chris Rock used to say,   That Ain't Right   

 

 

 

[TSherbs]

11 hours ago, sirgilbert357 said:

 

If that's avarice, I guess I'm guilty. We can agree to disagree. LOL.

We're not disagreeing at all. Have a great day! 

[I-am-not-really-here]

6 hours ago, salmasry said:

Each time I want to buy a $7  Diamine bottle of ink  from CultPens, I have to buy a $500 pen with it  to avoid the shipping charges.

 

Alternatively, I have to buy another 15 bottles of ink as another way to avoid the shipping charges.

What is the base shipping charge, $15?  You spend another (15 times $7) $105 to save $15?  
 

please tell me you don't work in finance. Your "free shipping" cost $90.

[samasry]

18 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

What is the base shipping charge, $15?  You spend another (15 times $7) $105 to save $15?  
 

please tell me you don't work in finance. Your "free shipping" cost $90.

 

I  was of  the impression  that  this  guy -->   was   a  good enough clue.

 

I really do hope that you  do realize that for these $105, I am getting 15  bottles of the lovely Diamine ink  @ 80mL per bottle, which is half the US price for even the cheapest alternative.

 

Following  your idea, I'd spend  $15 and get zilch, nada, Zero.

 

Zero is an  important concept in mathematics.  Even peasants like me, not qualified to work in finance, do understand what is  a Zero 

 

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for caring.

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

7 hours ago, salmasry said:

 

Each time I want to buy a $7  Diamine bottle of ink  from CultPens, I have to buy a $500 pen with it  to avoid the shipping charges.

Ain't that the truth.  Only at least in my case it was only a $155 pen (the Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos), and some ink to hit the free shipping threshold.  But that was also a couple of years ago before shipping charges from everywhere across the pond went through the roof....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[samasry]

29 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Ain't that the truth.  Only at least in my case it was only a $155 pen (the Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos), and some ink to hit the free shipping threshold.  But that was also a couple of years ago before shipping charges from everywhere across the pond went through the roof....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

The shipping charges avoidance threshold  for CultPens is usually  around  £70 or 75, which  is around $105 US.

 

I just noticed the currency  conversion ratio is now 1.41 !! Oh  Lord, it used to be under 1.3 and sometimes it was 1.2x

 

I was having fun with Hyperbole (it is what I do).  The  truth of the matter is:  I went to CultPens to buy a bottle of ink and ended up with  6 pens and 40  ink bottles and counting. Not all in one visit of course.

 

The CultPens'  Pen-purchase party is coming to an end for me though;  most of the pens I bought from them are like 20-30% more expensive now.  I'd only be hauling   Diamine ink from them going forward.

 

 

[I-am-not-really-here]

45 minutes ago, salmasry said:

 

I  was of  the impression  that  this  guy -->   was   a  good enough clue.

 

I really do hope that you  do realize that for these $105, I am getting 15  bottles of the lovely Diamine ink  @ 80mL per bottle, which is half the US price for even the cheapest alternative.

 

Following  your idea, I'd spend  $15 and get zilch, nada, Zero.

 

Zero is an  important concept in mathematics.  Even peasants like me, not qualified to work in finance, do understand what is  a Zero 

 

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for caring.

 

 

Your laughing guy was placed at the end, indicating to me that you were laughing with or at Chris Rock.
 

 No, you would not get nothing for $15.  You'd get shipping.  So, you'd pay $22 Net shipping for one 80ml bottle of Diamine.  Now, if you argue that makes no sense, I would agree.  
 

 

 

 

[samasry]

1 hour ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Your laughing guy was placed at the end, indicating to me that you were laughing with or at Chris Rock.
 

 No, you would not get nothing for $15.  You'd get shipping.  So, you'd pay $22 Net shipping for one 80ml bottle of Diamine.  Now, if you argue that makes no sense, I would agree.  
 

 

 

 

 

I think we  have similar thought process, however I did not convey my thought process well in the initial post.

 

My initial post,  was trying to clarify the process through which some people,  like yours truly,  tend to hoard.

 

It requires a few character traits,  one of them is being  penny wise and pound foolish.

So,  you are correct in your observation, that it is not really very smart,  to buy 15 items to save on one item's shipping charges.

 

My comment about the fact that this behavior is not right  + my laughing man,  demonstrates that I am very well aware of my  character fault.  Please do keep in mind that CultPens is not forcing me to make any of these decisions.

 

As for mathematics, I have actually got my PhD in mathematical   graph theory, a branch of computer science,  27 years ago, so you can consider that  I have:

 

Doctored in mathematics
I could have been a don        

 

Or  at least,   I know how to add and subtract   .    Thank you for caring nonetheless.

 

(The song link is  ONLY  to clarify where that  reference came from, there are no other hidden messages to be gleaned from the song)

 

 

Have a great  weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

[TSherbs]

11 hours ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

What is the base shipping charge, $15?  You spend another (15 times $7) $105 to save $15?  
 

please tell me you don't work in finance. Your "free shipping" cost $90.

 

Dude, you missed the ironic self-deprecation.

[Ueno808]

The only times I stockpile are when my favorites are deeply discounted. I'm still working my way through a stash of MB Royale Blue purchased from the clearance rack for $1 each when OfficeMax was shedding their inventory of MB and Pelikan back in early 2000s.  My MB Royale Blue has aged to a wonderful blue-black that is similar to Pelikan 4001 BB. 

[A Smug Dill]

Here's a part, not all, of my stockpile of new/unopened bottles of ink, as of December 2021 (and I trust no more is coming in the remainder of the year):