It very well could be a clearance item in just this one store, but it's worth a look at your nearest book big box!
I haven't used the Xonex ru before, but a quick search of FPN shows people think it's a reasonable product for the money. A quick line with some Herbin Cafe des Iles in a pen with a wet writing F shows just a touch of hairline feathering along the paper fibres and a little bleedthrough - exactly what I experience from this combo in a moleskine. Not fantastic, but for $2.67 a notebook, it'll do.
Ryan.
* The three pack actually came with one blank, one lined, and one squared notebook. The blank and lined look good, but the squared is odd - a 3mm grid with heavy gray lines.