Hey, I know there are a bunch of pen&ink merchants that love Noodler's -- why haven't they gotten their own Noodler's exclusive ink yet?

Let's face it -- even if it's bubblegum pink color, it'll still probably sell out, especially with the word-of-mouth on the Inky Thoughts forum... and people paying for shipping for the ink will likely toss other items into their shopping cart, too!

I'm posting here, instead of Inky Thoughts, because I bet it would get the ink merchants' attention... I'm hoping perhaps you (merchants) will decide to approach Nathan about getting one of these for your business. Just think, a Noodler's exclusive would probably put your business on the map, if it wasn't already!!

While I love the exclusives and think they give merchants something special to offer, I'm not sure they are really for everyone. I don't think it's a requirement. In fact, I'd encourage companies that don't have Noodler's exclusives to get a little creative and think about getting exclusives of other types. I know there are some inks available elsewhere that aren't readily available here. I also know that Phil at Diamine seems to be an easy to get along with guy and that the PR folks also do good work. Exclusive inks don't have to start and stop with Noodler's.

Of course there should be other inkmakers doing exclusive inks.. but they just haven't been doing it. Nathan's business model is very different from that of a typical company.

And the best part of the exclusive inks is that they make an even larger # of ink varieties available.

I brought (but didn't really show off) Emerald City from Worldlux.
I have some of the Art Brown and FPH and Swisher exclusives. Swisher has a ton of exclusives, though.