News From Peyton Street Pens

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Recent visitors to our web site will have noticed some changes. Here are some brief highlights of what we've been up to.

 

The blog has landed

As a way of capturing and preserving some of the research we do, as well as giving us a forum for our crack-pot ideas, we have created a blog. The latest posts are highlighted on the main web site's home page, but if you just want to read without being assaulted by our crass commercial interests, you'll find the blog here. You can follow the blog by subscribing to the RSS feed .... both the posts and the comments are feed-able (edible?). Recent posts include some observations on flexible nibs, a how-to on our blow-filler conversion of Ranga eyedropper pens, and information/conjecture about the Eversharp Symphony pen line.

 

New pens added RSS Feed

Many customers tell us they haunt our home page watching for "just added" pens. Experience tells us half the pens in the "just added" home page section sell before they have time to scroll off of the home page. While the home page is set to automatically present the absolute latest additions to the web site, there's a way to keep up with the new additions and that is by subscribing to the RSS feed. Log in (or register and log in) and visit this page to view the feed. There are various smart phone and tablet apps that will allow you to subscribe to the feed and get notices when a new pen is added, and most email clients such as Outlook have a function for getting them as well.

 

Future Improvements

High on our list of priorities right now is to implement a way to allow pen lovers to view our sold listings. Because the web site is meant to show pens that are available to purchase, listings disappear once they are no longer available due to no inventory. What's lost to view is the hours of research and photography that went into creating the listing; sometimes the pen is only viewable for a few minutes before it's sold. We don't want to mix available pens with sold pens, as other vintage and pre-owned pen sellers do, so we are thinking of creating an "archived" area where information on the pens that have been sold can be accessed. It's a big undertaking, but we think it would be a great resource for the pen community.

 

Closed for vacation - we will be closed from May 1 to May 8, and we'll resume shipping on May 10. You can browse and buy while we are closed, but nothing will ship until May 10.

 

Thanks for your support!

 

TERI and the crew at Peyton Street Pens