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So is the increase isolated or worldwide?

Lamy 2000 FP, PP, BP, MFP & RB. Mont Blanc Meisterstück 161 Le Grand Platinum BP & Heritage 1912 FP.

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So is the increase isolated or worldwide?

I checked the prices in Europe (Germany & France). It seemed to be worldwide as the prices there increased as well.

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I checked the prices in Europe (Germany & France). It seemed to be worldwide as the prices there increased as well.

 

 

Think when I've the time, I'll make a trip to my local boutique to check it out.

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7.8% increase on the item the OP listed.

 

I'm sure I paid £120 for my Starwalker ballpoint when it was first released. It now costs £285.

 

When my wallet was stolen I was shocked at how much I had to pay for a replacement. I got it in a sale for £50 (think it was 50% off sale) and it cost me over £200 to replace.

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7.8% increase on the item the OP listed.

 

I'm sure I paid £120 for my Starwalker ballpoint when it was first released. It now costs £285.

 

When my wallet was stolen I was shocked at how much I had to pay for a replacement. I got it in a sale for £50 (think it was 50% off sale) and it cost me over £200 to replace.

I didn't notice until recently that the prices of luxury goods adjust themselves to the inflation rates. Though I did economics as a bachelor degree :P

 

May I ask in what year you bought your starwalker? Just want to know for a reference :)

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~ Prices on the Montblanc China Web site remain unchanged this morning.



I've been following the William Shakespeare fountain pen. No price shift...yet.



Tom K.


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Prices on MB's US web site are unchanged as well.

Rationalizing pen and ink purchases since 1967.

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I didn't notice until recently that the prices of luxury goods adjust themselves to the inflation rates. Though I did economics as a bachelor degree :P

 

May I ask in what year you bought your starwalker? Just want to know for a reference :)

 

 

Not sure which year I bought my first Starwalker. I would guess > 10 years ago but I couldn't say when.

 

Do you see MB as Veblen goods?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

My Collection: Montblanc Writers Edition: Hemingway, Christie, Wilde, Voltaire, Dumas, Dostoevsky, Poe, Proust, Schiller, Dickens, Fitzgerald (set), Verne, Kafka, Cervantes, Woolf, Faulkner, Shaw, Mann, Twain, Collodi, Swift, Balzac, Defoe, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Saint-Exupery, Homer & Kipling. Montblanc Einstein (3,000) FP. Montblanc Heritage 1912 Resin FP. Montblanc Starwalker Resin: FP/BP/MP. Montblanc Traveller FP.

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Today I just dropped by a local MB boutique, no price increase here in Singapore too.

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Had to happen eventually in this post-Brexit world.

 

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Euro:£ rate for 3 months...

That makes perfect sense. Now that reminds me, Apple did increase in the UK as well.

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