Why You Need An Impressive Pen... Penned For Success

[markh]

I just received an email add from Cross. Don't really have a lot of interest in Cross pens, and most of what they advertised are ball point pens.

But they do get some things right:

 

Here is the ad text, over an image of a fp nib:

 

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"Can I borrow your chewed up pen to sign this six figure deal?"

Said no one ever.

Are you penned for success?

 

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Now there's a company that gets it....

 

That expensive, impressive pen is money well spent....

 

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[Bo Bo Olson]

So sad....got a couple of real 'signature' pens.....and not a dammed thing to sign.

If I go into debt to use one, the next thing ya know, I'll have to sell the pens.

 

Do lock your credit card up in your bank safety deposit box and make a fortune in un-used debt interest.

 

I have reached debt free on credit cards..........best sell signature pens before the itch to use them grows too big.

 

To think all this mess with credit cards was because someone couldn't afford to take his wife out dining....so bought a "Dinner's Card".

With out a penny in his pocket, the man walked into a posh 'seen and be seen' restaurant....Status is such an addiction.

His great grand kids are still paying the price.

Edited September 18, 2017 by Bo Bo Olson

[amberleadavis]

That ad is sort of funny.

[TheRealMikeDr]

From my experience just the act of using a fountain pen - even a $15 Pilot Metropolitan - will impress most people. I think we buy the real expensive pens to impress ourselves

[praxim]

I think we buy the real expensive pens to impress ourselves

 

My wife has learned to keep the smelling salts handy in case I swoon on stepping in to my study.

 

 

[chromantic]

While Cross is correct in their belief that professionals should carry a nice pen, I'd think anyone signing a "six figure deal" would have their own expensive pen to whip out and sign with. After all, they're the one impressing you by signing, not vice versa.

[pajaro]

I had a friend, "penned for success," sporting a MB 149. The pen was never inked.

[calvin_0]

well if your job allow you to sign a 6 figure contract, i think you could afford a pilot Namiki Maki-e.. you know one of those 30k pen that really belongs in a museum..

[Freddy]

 

well if your job allow you to sign a 6 figure contract, i think you could afford a pilot Namiki Maki-e.. you know one of those 30k pen that really belongs in a museum..

 

 

If I routinely draft and sign contracts in excess of 60 million....The pen I have {that's a given}..perhaps I should be able to afford to purchase and maintain

a Gulfstream G280....{ hypothetically....Of course...But I like your logic} Welcome aboard....calvin_0,

 

Fred

 

[Sasha Royale]

To think all this mess with credit cards was because someone couldn't afford to take his wife out dining....so bought a "Dinner's Card".

If he spent only as much as he could afford, payment by cash or card would be irrelevant. Ultimately, it's someone pretending to be something HE IS NOT . I find this to be the cause of many of our problems. Money, like other things in our lives, is important. Whatever is important to you, learn how it works.

[dogpoet]

That ad is sort of funny.

 

There was a really nice Parker one in the UK around the turn of the millenium along similar lines:

http://files2.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_528/5286905/file/parker-pens-you-are-what-you-eat-small-37930.jpg

 

 

I had a friend, "penned for success," sporting a MB 149. The pen was never inked.

I've seen them used as design accents (or whatever interior designers call ornaments now) on make over shows...

Edited September 19, 2017 by dogpoet

[pajaro]

I have my Pelikan M320 cherry cobbler (Ruby Red). The orange marmalade pen would have been more impressive, though.

Edited September 20, 2017 by pajaro

[pajaro]

I just received an email add from Cross. Don't really have a lot of interest in Cross pens, and most of what they advertised are ball point pens.

But they do get some things right:

 

Here is the ad text, over an image of a fp nib:

 

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"Can I borrow your chewed up pen to sign this six figure deal?"

Said no one ever.

Are you penned for success?

 

================

 

 

Now there's a company that gets it....

 

That expensive, impressive pen is money well spent....

 

.

 

" Ahem, ahem . . . may I borrow that old purpley Parker to sign my six figure check?"

 

"Er . . . may I borrow that solid gold thing in your pocket with the black and white junk on top to sign my six figure check?

 

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Plum Parker 51

Solid gold Montblanc 149

Edited September 20, 2017 by pajaro

[Mech-for-i]

in fact I've seen that done in real life more than once, a big volume contract signed with nothing more than a beaten up cheap Ball Point. But if you think about it, its a pen , it was readily available , it laid down a ( somewhat ) permanent line , and its usage is well known and almost everyone can and know how to use one ... so ......

[mitto]

A PARKER FIFTYINE. THE PLUMMISH THE BETTER.

[aeba]

On topic: If I wasn't expecting to sign anything, they get to deal with my Kaweco Supra.

 

Offtopic:

If he spent only as much as he could afford, payment by cash or card would be irrelevant. Ultimately, it's someone pretending to be something HE IS NOT . I find this to be the cause of many of our problems. Money, like other things in our lives, is important. Whatever is important to you, learn how it works.

*Bolding is mine edit*

 

And yet, when you finally drop the facade, people have peculiar habit on vanishing because they got called back to work because operators are on strike due to a broken coffee machine, or because backup tape got overwritten with a copy of system manager's favourite CD. Even in Finland where "Hey, how are you doing?" may get a real answer as likely (or more likely) than some small talk answer about the weather, or a bogus "invitation" for few beers which isn't even meant to be an invitation.

[Bo Bo Olson]

It's not everyone that counts mills when doing money.

$10.0000 or $10.0001 is also six figures.

Time to break out the $15 Pilot Metropolitan.

[ThomasB]

From my experience just the act of using a fountain pen - even a $15 Pilot Metropolitan - will impress most people. I think we buy the real expensive pens to impress ourselves

Agreed!

[Ghost Plane]

The $600 million dollar contract I was responsible for was signed electronically. The fund cite was more binding than the agents for the respective parties.

[inkstainedruth]

A PARKER FIFTYINE. THE PLUMMISH THE BETTER.

 

Although if I ever get famous I might use the English made Navy Grey one for signing autographs instead -- it's got an OB nib. My Plummer has a very nice (probably M) nib on it, though

There are times when I think I'd like a full-sized Plum. But then I look at the prices, and then at my Plum Demi, and then say, "Naah, I'm good...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

ETA: Of course, the pens I have that are *most* likely to get admiring comments from non-pen people? A couple of Noodler's Konrads....

Edited September 21, 2017 by inkstainedruth