What If Mb Stopped The We And Poa Series

[LargeSofa]

I was thinking about this mainly bc I own most from in each series pre-2000. Was contemplating if they stopped the series would that be good or bad for the prices. I never sell anything, but was just thinking. Would then people try and collect the whole series and buy the old ones instead of always buying the newest or would new people not have these in focus anymore.. I guess pros and cons either way. Anyway, the early ones were amazing, the newer ones, not usually my cup of tea. Actually I really only use Catherine the Great 4810 and Voltaire, other than that mainly always go for some variation of the meisterstuck, lately my 149 or a silver fiber guilliouche 146...

[Opooh]

All depends on availability and demand of the pen in question. One WE and one POA a year, well, these series will surely outlive me.

Edited April 14, 2014 by Opooh

[BrandonA]

Personally I like complete sets of pens, be it a set of classiques, a set of Starwalkers or WE or POAs.

 

I can't afford to buy both a POA and a WE pen each year whilst also collecting all the older POA pens. For this reason I've not bought a POA pen. If they stopped making them though I would collect the POA pens as I could buy two or three a year and know that I'd complete the set in 7 to 10 years (similar timescale to completing my WE collection).

 

I don't think the value of the pens themselves would increase in value though as they dont really tend to increase now as they are readily avaialable via auctions (be it online or at an auction house). Maybe in 30-40 years even if they continued to make these pens the older ones may increase in price as the will get rarer and rarer over time.

[torstar]

would love it, keep driving that Proust price up to the heavens... :D :D

[meiers]

They won't.

[adelaidepen]

This is the first year I've really stopped buying them BECAUSE I had to have the full set. I've realised I get much more enjoyment from a pen such as the Heritage or L'aubrac. History seems to show that the really cool pens go up in value - Medici, Verne, Proust, Octavian and Hemingway - as well as the Imperial Dragon which, although not officially a WE, is driven by the Asian market of course. I'm now selling my WEs and POAs I don't really like nor use. That way I can hopefully raise enough money for my grail pen - the Gaudi Skeleton :-)

[Chrissy]

If they stopped making them, then no-one would be able to buy them from Montblanc any more. They would have to buy existing ones from other sources

[jar]

I doubt that discontinuing a series would have any affect on the prices of particular models in the set. After all, each item in the set has already been discontinued.

[LargeSofa]

I should sell some of my poa and we that I don't use, but I just can't bring myself to do it...