What Wenrong ?

[Mookli]

Well I couldn’t pass for a buck! What could go wrong with a WENRONG ?

 

 

Here is the description…..

 

WENRONG senior scrub technology nib pen WR- 988B

Appearance: metal rods, colored scrub craft. Rod about 5.5 cm long, long under the rod about 7.9, total length 13.3 cm, length of the upper and lower pole connector about 4.7 cm, the maximum diameter of about 1 cm， spring by pinching the ink cartridges is about 6.2 mm long, large nib, suitable for students and accounting special. NOTE: We sell new pen, not filled with ink, because it is easy dirty mail. Go to a local stationery store, buy writing ink, refillable cartridge can work, thank you!

 

Well I’m a sucker for colored Scrub craft, love the stuff!

And what a rod, I can’t wait to see how the upper and lower pole connect!

Very excited to spring , by pinching the ink cartridge, that will be a new one for me.

So until the easy dirty mail shows up, I will have to be patient and hope nothing wenrong!

 

Who says a pen needs to be expensive to be fun!

 

Oh, and free postage too !!!

 

http://www.maryhatay.com/Mark/Fountain-Pens/Mixed-Pens/i-pGjrRxN/0/M/wenrong-M.jpg

[Icywolfe]

What is scrub craft?

[jdllizard]

That pen youlove long time. It bring happy happy fun time writings days of many.

[Cordovian]

Confucius say: Don't put cheap pen in expensive shirt pocket.

[nigelg]

Talk about lost in translation!

Maybe Zuckerberg should have done the translating - apparently he is "nearly" fluent in mandarin.

Hope nothing gorong with the wenrong and it rite-rite .

[Mookli]

OK, my best guess is, scrub craft = brushed metal

[Abner C. Kemp]

hahahaha. Cool looking pen -- quite an interesting shape to the nib.

[OcalaFlGuy]

LMAO at a few of these posts.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[estie1948]

That is what I call an interesting description. Please let us know about this Wenrong. I may want to buy several before the price goes up.

 

-David.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

I think I understand most of what was intended by that description.

 

I wonder how the seller makes any money on this. Even if his stock fell off the back of a truck and he got it for nothing, surely it must cost him 99¢ just to ship it to the U.S.

[senzen]

Hehe, be careful though it also works (or rather doesn't) in reverse... There was an OS called WebOS that made everyone who speaks Spanish laugh... The current tyrant in Russia also has an unfortunate name.

[chas0039]

I have only had 1 disappointing pen out of China. This could just be the pen to make it 2. But why not?

[Moshe ben David]

Hehe, be careful though it also works (or rather doesn't) in reverse... There was an OS called WebOS that made everyone who speaks Spanish laugh... The current tyrant in Russia also has an unfortunate name.

 

Actually I figured his name was prophetic...

[Cordovian]

I think I understand most of what was intended by that description.

 

I wonder how the seller makes any money on this. Even if his stock fell off the back of a truck and he got it for nothing, surely it must cost him 99¢ just to ship it to the U.S.

Look up E-packets and how they work. With bulk mailing it probably cost the seller about $.50 - $.75 to ship it to the US. E-packets really give sellers in China an unfair advantage and it's costing the USPS millions every year.

[estie1948]

Look up E-packets and how they work. With bulk mailing it probably cost the seller about $.50 - $.75 to ship it to the US. E-packets really give sellers in China an unfair advantage and it's costing the USPS millions every year.

Sorry to be taking this thread on a sideways drift, but this E-packets statement is true. There are several USPS pricing policies (many of them put in place when USPS was more a part of the government -that is- politically pleasing policies) that are costing the USPS and private U.S. citizens millions of dollars every year. One study found that only first class postage - the smallest amount of business handled by the USPS (percentage of total volume) - is the only class of postage that is paying its own way. In fact, first class pays for itself and for a large percentage of the huge volume of "junk" mail.

 

Sorry for the rant.

 

-David.

[jdllizard]

OK, my best guess is, scrub craft = brushed metal

I was thinking that means it's an old style fountain pen? "Senior scrub craft", equals obsolete style of writing instrument?

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Look up E-packets and how they work. With bulk mailing it probably cost the seller about $.50 - $.75 to ship it to the US. E-packets really give sellers in China an unfair advantage and it's costing the USPS millions every year.

 

Yes, I see, thanks. Probably still not much of a profit for this seller on a 99¢ sale, but perhaps a nickel or dime and enough business makes it worthwhile for him.

Edited October 27, 2014 by ISW_Kaputnik

[chas0039]

I'm high bidder. We'll see what it looks like.

[Mookli]

Just got a notification that it shipped,

I don't know how long the shipping will take, I think there are two options,

1, they put it in an addressed bottle and throw it in the East China sea,

2, Tie it to a helium balloon. (air mail, cost extra)

 

I opted for the first option, since I live right across the pond.

Bon voyage my little scrub craft, bon voyage !

[SeeksAdvice]

Sorry, I couldn't help laughing. It's been a long week (yes, I know it's only Tuesday night). The comments may not be politically correct, but they are funny.

I wonder what the lead content of that thing is. Perhaps the nib is 100% pure "other metal coated" lead? Or, maybe the trim on it?

Wouldn't you be surprised if the "money" on the sale is made by packaging something "extra" in the pen body to be removed upon receipt in the US and prior to being sent to the end user. Or, that the pen(s) are used as cover items to ship quantities of narcotics... Sorry, I'm cynical and a drug prosecutor, so you can see where this is going. Unless the thing is complete and utter garbage, and even then, cannot see how anyone would make money on that without "companion" shipping so to speak. There's always "China White."