What are the advantages of joining the OMAS Society, if any?

You get a shiny black card, a perfect match for your AmEx Centurion Card.



I guess I have not been a member enough years to get the free cleaning cloth, but I do get the occasional mailing or email announcing a new pen.

Bill

Whether you get the stupid cleaning cloth or not is a willy-nilly thing. I got it a year after signing up together with a little writing pad and some high-gloss brochure. Ever since I haven't heard from the "Omas Society." I guess it's a convenient way to pool data of customers.
Maybe I am a bit pessimistic here, but I'd rather have them offer their pens a bit cheaper and gladly forgo the chintzy cleaning cloth.

I am not a member of the OMAS society so i don't know what the advantages are (not many from what the guys mention) but i do have the OMAS society pen and it is a wonderful pen.

Nikolaos

I tried to become a member and after countless email exchanges, resetting passwords and waiting, I gave up. They must not want me as a member. I did get the nice cloth and notepad though. Otherwise, no dice.

I got the cleaning cloth. Nothing else (not even the card).

Maybe if they offered an old-style Paragon specially made from the Arlecchino celluloid as a reward for membership, I'd see some advantages.

I stand corrected. I just got a very neat, big beach towel, with OMAS emblazoned on the front side. This has more to due with the fact that I bought a new Arco, and less to do with the 'society'.

I live in New Mexico. What am I going to do with a beach towel? It is very nice though.

You could sell it on the marketplace, and give everyone a chance to chime in on the towel's fair market value!

Congrats, but I failed to see the association of a beach towel with a fountain pen; for ink spill perhaps?

I might just do that (sell it on the board).



I hope that it isn't an accessory to handle the 'leakage' problems that some people have reported here from time to time..................

I have been a "member" for two years now.I received the notepad(which i really like)the cleaning cloth(not that great) and the super usefull black membership card (whoopee!). Have not received any ads or mailings in a year.But hey,it's free.That is always a good thing.
And a beach towel sounds fine to me!!!

Jim
Vancouver,Wa

Are you talking about the cloth? Wow, I didn't know that you were a dwarf.... Did you escape from the world Jonathan Swift?

PS: Just saw the the towel reference originates from Doug C.... So I'll rededicate my comment to him.

Hey, watch the comments, I'm sensitive about my height.

Actually, it IS a beach towel. If you on Mottishaw's site, you'll see that it is a special offer through the summer.

Ok, saw it, it's a real towel. I thought it was an ironic way of referring to the polishing cloth.

I may not be the sharpest nib in the Piquadro Omasfan, but I know irony when I hear it, and that ain't irony..........

Jeez, if I should have hurt you in any way, I apologize. It's a pen forum! I accidentally overlooked the beach towel posts and thought that handlebar was referring to the polishing cloth as a beach towel. Hence my comments. No malice aforethought involved here! Let's grow up (pun intended or not, you may choose for yourself!) and talk and enjoy pens.

I was KIDDDDing...................

Didn't you see the smile on my face when I wrote it (I knew you were just joking)?


Sorry if you misunderstood...I should know better than to post things that can be misinterpreted since you can't hear the inflection in the person's voice).

Now, I feel bad.

Doug, sorry, I misread your comment. It's ok. No offense taken! I thought for a moment you were a shorty who had takeen personal umbrage at my post.

Hey, who are you calling a 'shorty'?




(kidding again).

BTW, I'm 5'8" which is probably on the short side of average................................

Hey who are you calling the shorter side of average!! I'm 5'8" !!!

Jim

I bet if one of us stood on the other's shoulders we could take Omasfan.....................hmm?

Then, as Isaac Newton said, you'd each be standing on the shoulders of giants...

Hey, nobody is standing on my shoulders! Yeah, Jim and Doug together would probably be able to reach up to my waist. I am a gargantuan 6 foot fella.

Jim

I thought Robert Burton said that.

What did I say???

Oooh, he's getting brave now, isn't he?

BTW, I just had a conversation with JellyBelly-sad to say that she has been looking for a Piquadro pen case (referencing back to my earlier snide remark), called Joon and they told her that they have discontinued all of their pen cases. What a shame. I guess there just arent enough of us arent out there.

No affiliation, but Fountainpen Hospital seems to have the 1, 2 and 3 pen cases in stock.

Also, I, too, am 5'8".

-Nkk

I don't think I was clear in my statement. She was told by Joon that Piquadro is discontinuing the manufacture of these cases.