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Wouldn't surprise me, back when I owned a Hasselblad 500C/M (6x6 medium format camera that has a pretty recognized body), you could get the 120 or 220 film backs online (mostly from keh.com) for around 30-80 dollars, but if you were to buy them brand new from Hasselblad it would run you close to 600-800, same backs and all, but brand new.

 

Some brands accessories are just bloody stupid expensive.

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fpSuperstar Near Mint

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Wow and I bet it doesn't function any better then a Jinhao converter!

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Wow and I bet it doesn't function any better then a Jinhao converter!

 

:P Oh I'm sure it does, probably about as good as the ones that are $5 more than the Jinhao ones :P

 

 

Funny how they modeled their web site on the montblanc one.

 

I noticed that too somewhat, but I hate sites that are heavily dependant on flash. It would not surprise me however that it's a commercial theme that you can buy (probably no more than 80-120 for the license, and however much they paid a developer to install it), since you can get themes like that over at places like themeforest and such, if you have a little know-how on configuring it.

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The website says it is made of ABS and Palladium. Looks like it is then gold plated. That would account for the cost differential. Or at least a large share of it.

Brad

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"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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I think it's time to order a dozen of these........................for use with that (almost gold plated) Iroshizuku ink.

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84 grams! A Jinhao 159 is only 50 grams!!

 

And it ugly to boot.

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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"Jesus, you payed how much for that pen and converter? Are you insane?!"
"Ah, but this isn't just any pen... It's a Louis Vuitton!"
And lo, the other conversant was silenced, in shame and awe of his friend's elevated social status and impeccable taste in fineries.

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"Jesus, you payed how much for that pen and converter? Are you insane?!"

"Ah, but this isn't just any pen... It's a Louis Vuitton!"

And lo, the other conversant was silenced, in shame and awe of his friend's elevated social status and impeccable taste in fineries.

 

A little worse if this is a dialog between two guys.

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Now, don't we all feel silly debating the price of Iroshizuku? B)

"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original." - Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 - 1809
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That converter is what you need when your yacht is only 298 feet long instead of the standard 300. It's a Louy VuTon.

 

Right. There is a belt maker in Scotland that makes a belt of the best harness built, 220-250 pounds, that is the difference between making the best and buying pure status.

The belt's worth it....something your grand children could give to theirs.

 

That pen indeed looks like the ugliest pen of this generation, and the last, that is not one of those so called 'art' pens. What does that say about the Louis Vuitton style?

You don't need any if you have the name.

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In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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I'm wondering who makes their ink.

 

And trying to recover my eyeballs from the corners of the room they rolled into after leaping from their sockets in shock.

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Funny how they modeled their web site on the montblanc one.

LVMH (Louis Vuitton) and Richemont (Montblanc) are the two largest luxury goods branding companies and the Louis Vuitton pens are obviously LVMH's stab at grabbing a piece of Montblanc's market share in pens. Since they are targeting the same customers it's not surprising that they are playing copycat in the look of their website. The respective companies have some quite similar looking websites for their watch brands too.

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No one will buy these, at any price.

 

I think it was ethernautrix who told the story of the idiot who bought a Montblanc fountain pen and just threw it in the bin when the ink ran out.

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I think that was the ugliest pen I've come across. The converter is pretty (though I have no idea why a converter need be pretty), but why hide it in such a monstrosity?

 

On the plus side, now I can call every expensive pen I want a bargain.

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