Bought A New Lamy 2000 Barrel From China Taobao.

[Intensity]

 

It seems to me that people cannot trust me I bought a genuine Lamy2000 for just 20$ USD. Here I upload the picture again, as the saying goes, a pic win thousands word

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmFE5G9F

And as an experienced buyer in China Taobao, I can confident to tell you that currently, I don't find any fake Lamy 2000 at the moment, the only similar I can find is called Lamy 2000 prototype, as pic attached below

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which handcraft by themselves, from another seller, the reason they don't clone lamy 2000 because this pen required sophisticated of process and procedure, technolog plus the relevant materials to produce this pen, unlike the safari, they can clone Safari for 100 percent alike, they do make a similar model like Lamy 2000, but normally they are model of inspiration but different design andentirely different which you can know this is not Lamy 2k on the spot.

Notice that seller do not sell any replacement of 2000 on the market nor in their store in Taobao, you must contact him directly, he might reject to sell you unless you have bought something from him.

Selling in China can be difficult, so who can able offer a lower price will triumph, this seller import Lamy pens directly from Lamy Germany factory as he advertised in his shope main page, and they able to sell it at a very low price, you can get a genuine Lamy 2000 for 100 USD. In taobao you can find a real Lamy safari for 10 USD (yes orignal), the products review will validated this if you're able to read some chinese, as for that they are lazy to deal with warranty things, as they don't speak English or German nicely, not mention buyers know how to send the pen back to Factory for repair, that's why they keep some Lamy 2000s as spare parts for those who will need it, yes they dissembled it for sale, I guess they are some demands buyers who want to try different nibs. But those spare parts are in small quantity and not in stock from time to time.

Btw, Taobao has review and rating for the customer, you can see the review before making any purchases if you have fake Lamy product buyers will leave a bad rating in there and henceforth you know this is not a legit Lamy 2000. and Taobao is strictly prohitbited courterfeit products which they will take down the shop if caught selling fake products.

To best things is I found a place to buy a new 2000 spare parts, because I live Asian region, eBay is real pain to be particularly when it comes to shipping costs, and also I lazy to deal to Lamy service counter.

Prior to that I asked him the price of the other spare part of 2000

Upper section: 150 chines yuan =20 USD (as I bought )

Lower section nib not include 180 chinese yuan

Nibs: 500 Chinese yuan

Clip: didn't ask him

 

 

I think you mean you bought pen PARTS for $20, not a COMPLETE pen with nib included for $20. That's where the confusion came from. When you say that you bought a genuine PEN, it means you bought the whole pen, which you didn't

Edited July 31, 2019 by Intensity

[sciumbasci]

 

[...] the only similar I can find is called Lamy 2000 prototype, as pic attached below

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I wonder if bobby's up for reselling it to us too lazy to go on Taobao to buy it. I tried to buy it myself once, and failed.

[tanjialee333]

yes barrel only, i not native eng speaker, sorry for any misunderstanding

 

whole pen is around 100usd

[dennis_f]

not yet, the color diffrent is obvious between the cap, but gradually match the lower section

https://prnt.sc/om9vek

 

 

On my monitor the difference between cap and body doesn't look very extreme. It's noticeable, but a casual observer might just think that it's caused by the light/reflection.

 

Do they have "ScotchBrite Pads" where you are? Because in the past people have used these to gently buff older Lamys so that they end up looking new again (ie: so that they end up looking lighter in colour). If you can find the pads, buffing the pen is as easy as very light and gently swiping the pad across the pen in the direction of the grain... I'm thinking that if you do this to the cap you might get a closer match. I believe there are videos online that show this approach.

[surprise123]

"Also: the Lamy 2000 makrolon changes colour/tone/shininess over time. If well used the pen becomes more polished, but even without use an older pen will look darker than a newer one. This change in colour can happen quite quickly, even within the space of a few months; a pen bought today may look noticeably lighter than a pen bought a few months ago (and that's not even allowing for the time a pen may have spent in a store and/or warehouse waiting to be sold)."

 

 

I've been using my Lamy 2000, every single day, and have gone through entire bottles of the same Waterman blue-black ink for two years. As you said, it turned a deep, shiny black. There is a shinier spot on the back of the cap from my thumb fidgeting on it. This pen has seen me through so many essays...