Amazon Black Friday offers on fountain pens, inks and paraphernalia

November 20, 2024

Browsing on Amazon.com.au just now, in addition to the offer on Faber-Castell Neo Slim Aluminium fountain pens in Olive Green, which being recently new in the market, cannot be reasonably benchmarked against previously seen sale pricing, I see:

Teranishi Chemical Industry (‘Guitar’) Taisho Roman Haikara Opera Rose ink, 40ml bottle, for $17.44 — certainly not groundbreaking in terms of low pricing, but I haven't seen it fall to or below that level in the past twelve months or longer
Nakabayashi Yu-sari A5 blank notebook (with brick red softcovers) for $15.94 — the ship has sailed on being able to get these for less than $10 a long while ago now, and only the gridded notebooks (with blue softcovers) have been offered at lower prices than $15 in the past twelve months or so
LAMY AL-star fountain pens in various colours, sold and shipped by Amazon Germany, around the $30 mark — again, not groundbreaking, and in almost every major sales campaign some LAMY AL-stars are offered around or below $35, but if there's a colour you like on offer, they aren't likely to go much lower, either coming from Germany or out of Amazon Australia's local stock, and doing much better than that will have to come down to clearance sales
LAMY Safari Pink Cliff special edition fountain pen, F nib, for $30.40

Prices are in Australian dollars, inclusive of GST and free shipping due either Prime membership (specifically with Amazon.com.au) or reaching the order value threshold of $59 on goods from the Amazon Global Store. (I had a quick look, and it appears that even having $30 on Amazon Germany items and $32 on Amazon Japan items in the same cart qualifies.)

I can't see much else of interest or astounding value to me personally at this point. Not only am I not that interested in the plain (or any, really) Sailor Profit King Of Pen models, I'm sure they have been offered for significantly less not so long ago.