Bunbougu's End of Financial Year Sale

[A Smug Dill]

When I checked my Junk Mail folder just now, I saw Bunbougu.com.au is having an End of Financial Year sale. Funny what Outlook decides to toss aside as junk mail, when I'm a repeat customer of Bunbougu (who only hit it when good discounts are on offer).

 

(You don't need me to give you the applicable discount codes, when they're posted on the site's home page.)

 

I had a quick note, and while there aren't really good offers for ink and fountain pen friendly paper products that I could spot at a glance, these caught my eye:

• the discontinued Pilot Petit1 fountain pens — even though the discounted price is still significantly higher than the product's retail price in the Japanese domestic market, back when it was easily available, for now it's lower than any price you'd see on AliExpress for such, once shipping from China (and tax, if applicable) is taken into account
  • I think there are 17 units left in stock, across three colours, in total

 

Spoiler

• Platinum Plaisir 10th Anniversary limited edition Night Grey is now available at about half its (Japanese domestic market) retail price upon release; I think it's the best Plaisir variant on account of the matt finish on its body, and at the discounted-by-75% price it's significantly cheaper than what one would pay for a run-of-the-mill Plaisir in a shop in Australia such as Dymocks  Note: Bunbougu has since changed the price
  • I think there are 7 units with M nibs and 7 units with F nibs left in stock, after I ordered 3 (in spite of my already having an unused one)

• Sailor Shikiori Amaoto, or ‘Sound of Rain’, in the darker of two greens is discounted to half-price, making it competitive with the (fluctuating, and sometimes here-today-gone-tomorrow) lowest discounted price for it I've seen on Amazon.com.au
• Platinum #3776 Celluloid ‘Koi’ is half-priced, making the offer competitive with the lowest offer for it I've seen on Amazon.com.au in the past three years
  • two units with F nibs remain — although it's the only #3776 Celluloid variant I don't yet have, and the discounted price is much cheaper now than its current retail price in the Japanese domestic market, I didn't pick one up
• the Pilot Capless in matt blue, with a choice of F or M nib, is decently priced after the discount on offer, and rather less than what I paid for mine some years ago
• the Lamy 2000 in brushed steel is I supposed decently or competitively priced, after applying the 30% discount, given the pricing adjustments over the past 12 to 18 months; but I haven't been (and still aren't) interested enough to have paid closer attention to know for sure

 

 

Edited June 19 by A Smug Dill
updated (again)

[A Smug Dill]

I imagine Bunbougu must've realised, in the past twenty minutes or so, that it hadn't intended to allow a half-price markdown in the Platinum Plaisir ‘Night Grey’ pens' item listings to be stacked with the 50%-off discount code, thus bringing the effective price down to just a quarter of the list price. Quite possibly it was packing my order from yesterday just now, and that alerted them to the mistake, which they've since corrected.