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P.S.: Bad news... I just received today a letter from the french customs saying that they intercepted my order from Richard Binder (a VP with a cursive italic and a stub) and that I have to communicate them the details of the transaction so that I'll pay taxes on it :(

Do any of you know if I'll have to pay a lot? Thx...

 

You'll have to pay something like 20-25% of the declared value (TVA 19.6% + customs taxes).

 

They expect a copy of the invoice Richard Bender sent to you. Maybe you can ask him to send you a "fake" invoice with a lower (but credible, customs guys are not this stupid !) in order to avoid expensive taxes... ;)

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Hi everyone,

First of all, as I'm new here, I don't know if it is the right place to ask my question... so excuse me if I'm in the wrong section...

 

I'd like to buy a pen for my birthday, you see, a nice pen I could keep for a long time. In my research, I came across the Sailor pens, and their nibs. I have try to find informations on them, and have read the reviews on this site in order to get an idea of what they were like, but the point is that I'm a bit lost in all of this...

 

First, I intended to buy a 1911 with a Cross Emperor nib, but I then discovered there were other nibs... and I'm rather thinking of buying a Cross Concord Emperor now... but the problem is that I don't think I can have the possibility of trying the nib before buying it, since I live in Paris, and there aren't many sailors pens dealers there. I'm looking for a very smooth nib, wich would allow me to vary the thickness of the line. Its main use would be to write letters and to be used everyday (I mean, I'm not looking for just a signature pen). I have also looked in the direction of the King of pen and its Eagle King, but I'm afraid it doesn't fit the use I want to make of it...

 

Thank you in advance for your answers and advices!

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Shinichiro.

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You'll have to pay something like 20-25% of the declared value (TVA 19.6% + customs taxes).

 

They expect a copy of the invoice Richard Bender sent to you. Maybe you can ask him to send you a "fake" invoice with a lower (but credible, customs guys are not this stupid !) in order to avoid expensive taxes... wink.gif

 

I contacted Richard, and he told me to print the PayPal receipt to use a the invoice. Because apart from that, I don't have any invoice Richard sent to me. Hope it will be ok. Thanks for the information anyway!

 

By the way, are you a Tolkien's fan? Should I call you Aragorn, or Strider? :D

 

Have a nice day :)

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@Pinmin:

Thanks for the information, but I have already ordered and received my Cross Concord Emperor, of which I am very happy :)

regards,

Shinichiro.

Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over...

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I went from grumbling at my Sailor pen with its Zoom nib, to wanting MORE Sailor pens!

 

Where's the best place to look online---and at the lower end of the price scale?

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I went from grumbling at my Sailor pen with its Zoom nib, to wanting MORE Sailor pens!

 

Where's the best place to look online---and at the lower end of the price scale?

Hehe ^^ I did about the same as you. I have a Sapporo with a Zoom nib, and although it is a good nib, I find it "a bit boring". The more I think about it, the more I tell myself I should have taken a music nib and not a zoom. That aside, that pen introduced me to Sailor, and the Cross Concord Emperor I received is one of the best nib I have ever writtten with, not to say the best. Since Sailor is famous for the quality of its nib, I wanted to try one and I have to admit they are quite amazing.

 

The only "problem" is that it is quite hard to try a nib before buying it, at least in Paris where I live. I don't know where's the "best place" to look online. Personnaly, I bought my Cross Concord Emperor at PenGallery, while the dollar was weak, so that I got it almost half the price in France.

 

Sore ja!

Shinichiro.

Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over...

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I contacted Richard, and he told me to print the PayPal receipt to use a the invoice. Because apart from that, I don't have any invoice Richard sent to me. Hope it will be ok. Thanks for the information anyway!

 

By the way, are you a Tolkien's fan? Should I call you Aragorn, or Strider? :D

 

Have a nice day :)

Shinichiro.

 

 

I think Paypal receipt will be fine. Plus, I'm sure it's not the first time Richard has to deal with it, so it will be ok ;)

 

About tolkien, I really liked it before and even if I don't read him this much, it became a kind of habit to use this alias.

 

 

I went from grumbling at my Sailor pen with its Zoom nib, to wanting MORE Sailor pens!

 

Where's the best place to look online---and at the lower end of the price scale?

 

www.melpens.com has very good prices (no affiliation, just a very good purchaising experience). I looooooooove my Sapporo :happyberet:

 

 

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Hello everyone:

I have a question. I am new to fountain pens as my childhood memories were messy leaky fountain pens. Now, I am suddenly interested in it and would like to ask this question:

 

Is Sailor Nagahara good for writing Chinese characters? I mean I simply want to hold the fountain pen normally or western style instead of holding it vertically. If I hold it normally at an angle, should I try Sailor Nagahara? I have never try one and I have to order one. I will keep searching this web site to see if others have posted similar questions. Or is there a different brand I should consider? I am not very good at writing Chinese characters using the traditional brushes. However, if there is a fountain pen that I can hold at an angle, I may consider it. I have two sailor pens with fine nibs and I love them. Thank you everyone.

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If you're going to hold the pen the way you would hold it for writing western-style, I don't think there would be an advantage to the fude or concord nibs. Also, they tend to write fairly broad strokes, which is not ideal for everyday writing. I had my concord nib modified to write finer strokes. Even then, I have to hold it at a fairly steep angle, like a brush.

 

For you, I'd recommend staying with fine nibs. But you might want to check out the cheap Sailor fude nibs. They come in two kinds. Maybe the one with a shallower angle would be suitable for you.

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