Sailor & Inks

[mke]

Sailor tells us that they have renewed the design of their bottled ink and cartridges (packages).

http://www.sailor.co.jp/pdf/notice/20181112_package-renewal.pdf

[usk15]

Yesterday I have received the converter in the new packing sleeve

[bass1193]

Sailor tells us that they have renewed the design of their bottled ink and cartridges (packages).

http://www.sailor.co.jp/pdf/notice/20181112_package-renewal.pdf

I so wish I could read Japanese! Do they try to justify doubling the price in this pdf?

[A Smug Dill]

I so wish I could read Japanese!

You could always put in the time and effort to learn (at the expense, or opportunity cost, of doing something else instead).

 

In the meantime, there is Google Translate and tools of that sort. The text on the PDF is selectable.

 

Do they try to justify doubling the price in this pdf?

I'm sure you can see which products are covered in the communiqué. Exactly which product shown there has doubled in price?

 

Please don't say Sailor Jentle inks in the old Shikisai ('colours of the four seasons') line, even if that's what you'd like to buy and are peeved off about, because they are not what Sailor was addressing in the bulletin, and therefore you cannot reasonably expect them to 'justify' (as if it needed to do so – I think not!) its commercial decisions to Joe Consumer. Let's talk about what's in scope, and Sailor – not you – decides what's in scope of the bulletin. So, which product(s)?

[bass1193]

You could always put in the time and effort to learn (at the expense, or opportunity cost, of doing something else instead.

Indeed, but I'm a bit busy working on an engineering degree at the moment. I see you have also taken Economics 101.

 

Also, username checks out yet again, and to a typically annoying degree.

Edited November 14, 2018 by bass1193

[Honeybadgers]

I don't know if this design change is much of an upgrade. More of a step sideways than forwards.

 

at least it'll be more useful than the original bottles for the first 1/3-1/4 of the bottle.

[A Smug Dill]

One thing I'll say, though: the taller bottles with a square footprint possibly makes it easier for 'collectors' of Sailor inks to store a whole pile of them on the shelf. The old round bottles aren't the most space efficient design in that regard, although I usually just keep them in the retail cardboard boxes in which they came, and then stack them two-high.

[Honeybadgers]

that's a good point. Again, not my biggest gripe with sailor bottles, so more of a side-grade than upgrade.

[Mulrich]

It looks like the new bottle design will still be 50ML which is good. I think the first reports of new bottles mentioned a smaller capacity (30ml?) at the same price. I really enjoy Sailor inks but their squatty bottles are a huge hassle and are incompatible with some of my larger nibs.

[A Smug Dill]

The Sailor Jentle black, blue-black, and blue inks will now be packaged and sold in 50ml retail bottles, in the new design with the square footprint, without 'Jentle' in the product names any more. I don't know with certainty how much they were before this change, but I'm guessing the price did not go up.

 

The Sailor Jentle grey, green, brown, red-brown, red, yellow-orange, and highlighter inks are not sold in retail bottles any more, as far as I'm aware. Green, red-brown and red will continue to be available in ink cartridges.

 

The sixteen inks in the Shikiori range within the old Jentle line of inks are now part of the new Shikiori line (currently with twenty colours in all), and sold in 20ml retail bottles in the new design, for the same price as the old 50ml round bottles.

 

The Sailor Storia line of inks will now be packaged and sold in 20ml retail bottles in the new design, for a higher(?) price than that of the 30ml round bottles in which they were originally released.

 

So, the good news is not all Sailor inks – and not even all Sailor Jentle inks – are subject to the massive price increase. The bad news is the colours you want are, at a blind guess, in scope of the price increase.