Where do you buy your pens?

[chad234]

I buy a lot of my pens off the forums (FPN, PT) and my new pens primarily from Pam Braun (only a few minutes from me ) or Dennis at Parkville.

[L:E:A]

I get my pens at

 

-Antique/Yard/Flea

-Ebay

-B&M stores in Boston & Cambridge (however, some pens I have tested there and then my budget pushed me Online )

-My first pen show this weekend, will buy me at least one nice pen .

 

L

Edited April 19, 2006 by L:E:A

[amin]

About 40% from B&M - my local one is Bertram's Inkwell. Sometimes costs more than online, but the service is fantastic and I wan't them to continue to exist so I can go there!

 

30% Green Board and FPN marketplace

 

15% Online dealers

 

15% Ebay

Edited April 19, 2006 by amin

[Wolverine1]

C and G . I either have bought from Pam Braun - for me she is brick-n-mortar since I live about 30 minutes away. Others I have gotten by trading with friends I have made on FPN or Pentrace.

[Bill]

C  and G . I either have bought from Pam Braun - for me she is brick-n-mortar since I live about 30 minutes away.

Are her in-store prices the same as the online prices?

 

Also, have you been to Bartrand's in downtown Grand Rapids?

 

Bill

 

[edited with additional question]

Edited April 19, 2006 by Bill

[FrankB]

I live in central Pennsylvania where there are no B&M stores, so I am overjoyed that I have the internet at my disposal. I buy from on-line dealers and pen forums exclusively. Thus far, the dealers have been very good about allowing me to return a pen if I genuinely do not like it, but that event has occurred only twice in about 10-years.

 

I stick with dealers whom I know, and they in turn know me. The on-line dealers have very fair prices, so I do not bounce around to dealers I don't know looking just for a good price. I usually stick with Swisher Pens, Pendemonium, Parkville Pens, Internet Pens (Kevin, aka "winedoc"), Fountain Pen Domain and Richard Binder. No affiliation to any of them.

 

If it were not for the internet I have no earthly idea what I would do to find pens! I have no doubt that I would not be as active in this hobby under those circumstances. This is a case where technology has influenced my life in the most positive way. I am retired, and the quality of my retirement and my life are radically different from that of my parents and grandparents thanks to technology.