Question: Depreciation In Market-Value Caused By Signature On Pen.

[penmanila]

If it's a Duofold Mandarin Senior or a Doric Oversize in great shape and going cheap, I'll take the ugliest name on earth to go with it.

[praxim]

Hi Praxim,

So you do think there is a difference ?

It does make sense, since usually a company logo adds a degree of vulgarity and cheapness

to a pen - even if that pen is a Sheaffer Targa.

 

Peter.

Hello dutch-courage, I thought more about this after your reply. I have a personal fondness for a couple of items which relate to my past and have logos from a short-lived company (not mine !). Other branded products from the same parent company are as cheapening as any other to me. I have a branded mug related to my F1 interest, given to me. I like it only for the giver, not what it is. I have a good quality nicely boxed set with gold adornments branded by an interesting small company now subsumed. I off-loaded the set on my wife who was more interested in the writing quality for use at home.

 

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It would be fairly remote that I would find a buyer based on the criteria in my second sentence above. They would have to recognise the entity and value it as I do or more. Therefore, logos do not work for me and I suspect they are at best a niche for anyone else.

 

Initials or monograms are largely value-neutral with regard to the markings so people react less to them, unless positively if there is a relation to your own friends or family (like my father's Eversharp gold pencil as mentioned on FPN, for example),

 

The above view relates also to this below.

I would've preferred Nikon, Canon, Leica or Hasselblad

Does that make me a snob ?

Peter.

I have brand preferences but fear looking like a follower of onan if I express them in related products. On the other hand, some things I carry or wear have recognisable "quality" brands, no denying it. This reasoning may seem a little obscure, but part of the test appears to be whether the core element is the product itself or a trading on the product name.

 

 

* I drank all the wine, no problem.

[RMN]

Hi D.ick !

No problem at all - the set came with the slim converter included.

 

Best,

Peter

In that case I envy you....

 

 

D.ick

[Bo Bo Olson]

Once in the old days, when I was young...an engraved with your name pen was a mark of class....and harder to steal.

Which is the same now...just mark down the name somewhere...in case it's stolen.

 

I'd expect to pay @ 10% less for a pen with a name on it...and sell it for the same amount less....assuming it's a top of the line pen to start with....with engraved pens that was usually the case.

 

I have some 4-5 engraved pens, right now a rolled gold capped P-45 is in one of my pen cups, the name is in gold still full and 100% on the black and don't bother me at all. I paid the rolled gold price less the 10% for the name.