I just don't get it. I've used a lot of pens and don't get the price of these. I've used 5-10 dollar pens that write just as nice
I went with a friend to a jewelry store when he was looking at engagement rings. One of the salesmen could tell I was bored and let me try one of their expensive pens. I was actually really impressed by how nice it felt and how smooth it glided across the paper as I wrote. He asked me to guess how much that pen cost and my jaw hit the floor when he revealed it cost $600. I carefully handed it back to him and explained that despite how impressed I was, I think I'd have to stick with my 0.99 cent Bic pens. These maybe out of my budget, but I could definitely tell the difference between a pen like this and the $5 pens at Staples.
I went with a friend to a jewelry store when he was looking at engagement rings. One of the salesmen could tell I was bored and let me try one of their expensive pens. I was actually really impressed by how nice it felt and how smooth it glided across the paper as I wrote. He asked me to guess how much that pen cost and my jaw hit the floor when he revealed it cost $600. I carefully handed it back to him and explained that despite how impressed I was, I think I'd have to stick with my 0.99 cent Bic pens. These maybe out of my budget, but I could definitely tell the difference between a pen like this and the $5 pens at Staples.
Have you ever tried a Fisher Space Pen?
There's a certain luxury in using a pen that just works when you pick it up at any angle, when left in a car, and apparently even in Space.
You can see some models made at the factory on YouTube. I have this pen and a couple other Mont Blanc models. Are they worth it? Yes, but only because I appreciate that they weren't just rolled off an assembly line. Not 100% handmade, but definitely people-centric. I look at this this way - if I made them I'd want them priced over $10 and as much as the buying market would bear. For it to be on SD at all is a surprise.
Great pen, if I didn't have it I would have jumped on it Immediately
Agreed; awesome price. I have the Starwalker fineliner and love it. Was a gift many years ago, was $400+ at the time (think it still is). This is a bargain for someone who wants one of these.
I just don't get it. I've used a lot of pens and don't get the price of these. I've used 5-10 dollar pens that write just as nice
It's just a status symbol. I'll tell you a funny story. I arrived at the office of my internship but I forgot to bring a pen so the secretary directed me to a cup full of crap pens that were collected over the years there was one pen looked like a Mont Blanc it never entered my mind that it would be real especially because it was stamped by a company called "pix" on the back of the clip. So I did some research about the "pix" stamp and confirmed later with a dealer that I was in possession of the real deal.
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I went with a friend to a jewelry store when he was looking at engagement rings. One of the salesmen could tell I was bored and let me try one of their expensive pens. I was actually really impressed by how nice it felt and how smooth it glided across the paper as I wrote. He asked me to guess how much that pen cost and my jaw hit the floor when he revealed it cost $600. I carefully handed it back to him and explained that despite how impressed I was, I think I'd have to stick with my 0.99 cent Bic pens. These maybe out of my budget, but I could definitely tell the difference between a pen like this and the $5 pens at Staples.
There's a certain luxury in using a pen that just works when you pick it up at any angle, when left in a car, and apparently even in Space.
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"This Timex can read time just as good as that Rolex"
"I can wear these Sketchers on my feet the same as those Air Jordans"
If you do not understand the appeal of luxury goods, you are not the target of the product.
Translation: I seek to impress others with expensive baubles.
There's a certain luxury in using a pen that just works when you pick it up at any angle, when left in a car, and apparently even in Space.