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I bid on a couple of pens from ebay, as a single lot. When the package arrived, imagine my surprise to find a third pen included! Nice little red SJ, even has original sticker on it. Was missing the nib. Seller included a note that said "Thought you might like this one as well".

 

I've also been picking up Esterbrook pencils to make sets with the pens I have. One of the older pencils really likes the thicker lead. Once again, I turned to ebay. I ordered a "lot" of vintage leads. Once again, a pleasant surprise when I open the package and find a nice note inside "Some extras for you". Was expecting five vintage containers of pencil lead, got a total of eight!

 

Time to go buy a lotto ticket!

 

 

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Sounds like some good experiences! We hear a lot of not so good experiences but my experience has been the opposite. Over the years, I have had more pleasant surprises than bad.

 

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I've also been picking up Esterbrook pencils to make sets with the pens I have. One of the older pencils really likes the thicker lead. Once again, I turned to ebay. I ordered a "lot" of vintage leads. Once again, a pleasant surprise when I open the package and find a nice note inside "Some extras for you". Was expecting five vintage containers of pencil lead, got a total of eight!

 

 

 

Experiences like this do happen. I got an Esterbrook pencil on eBay which the seller said used .9 mm leads. They did make some like that, but turned out to be definitely the larger 1.1+ mm size. No problem, since I actually have a good sized stock of the correct leads, so I left positive feedback anyway, but sent the seller a polite message that he'd made a mistake. Told him that there was no problem, and I was happy with the pencil. He apologized, and a few days later I got a second package with three tubes of the right size leads, including some red ones, which I didn't have.

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A month or so ago, I got a black desk pen in the mail from an EBay seller. He included five extra Renew Points with a note saying that he didn't know if they went with the pen, but if I could use them, I was welcome to them.

 

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