Mark Knibbs of Pilot took time to reply to my questions about pricing before I published my article and it’s a shame it was filtered out as spam. I apologise once again to Mark and to everyone who drew the wrong conclusions about Pilot as a consequence. I appreciate him taking the time to reply […]
Below is the reply I received from Pilot. Unfortunately, and embarrassingly, the reply was sent before the original article but went straight to my Spam folder so I didn’t see it. I’m responsible for this, and I apologise to Pilot and to those of you who drew conclusions about Pilot as a consequence. I haven’t […]
We’ve long grumbled in the UK about the prices of Pilot pens, casting covetous glances across the Atlantic whenever anyone speaks of the great value of Pilot’s fountain pens, or feverishly calculating shipping, customs charges and waiting times of Japanese imports. Things have come to a head recently with the sudden disappearance of some of […]
The Fool With a Pen wrote about his pen exile (and exile from purchasing) this week. As is always the case with Mr Fool’s writing it was a great read with many wise points. You should go and take a look if you haven’t already. For me, the whole point of pens is that they […]
A little while ago Dr Deans wrote an (as always) interesting article called Buying Local which was mostly about buying products manufactured in your own country. I wanted to look at a different aspect to buying locally, that of buying from a local online retailer. I spoke to Ross of Pure Pens, a gentleman who […]