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Which pen have you purchased, later sold, then purchased again after realizing that you really did like it?

 

I have gone through this several times with the Lamy 2000.

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I’ve only done so with a Pilot 823 but I’m about to sell a ton of pens and about some I wonder if I’m about to make a mistake.

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Ive only done so with a Pilot 823 but Im about to sell a ton of pens and about some I wonder if Im about to make a mistake.

Hi JVR,

 

If you have the remotest doubt - DON'T sell. A few years ago, I sold off quite a few pens w/o any qualms at the time. Today, I wish I still had them. :(

 

 

Sean :)

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Lamy 2000 for me also

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If they are readily available, like the Lamy 2000, sell it off and move on. If you want one later, easy to get another.

 

I would be more hesitant with limited editions and pens that you can't easily get again (the recent blue Lamy 2000 special edition for instance).

 

I've sold off things I had doubts about and it was fine after the item was gone. It was liberating to be honest. Doubts don't always mean you shouldn't act...sometimes we fabricate doubts because of emotions...and some emotions can be irrational and damaging. My watch collection was causing me stress, for instance. Selling off over half my collection freed me from that stress. I had doubts at the time, but now I don't regret it at all, and I'm about to sell even more off.

 

To each their own, YMMV, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah...lol

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I originally had the Lamy Accent in the silver finish with a steel nib and regretted selling it. Years later I purchased one of the black enamel versions with a gold nib at one of the Asian websites. It was out of production then so I had a great deal of trouble finding one.

Now I believe they are back in production.

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1st year Parker double jewel 51 in Nassau Green that I got in a bag of pens for 2 dollars. Luckily one turned up in a box of pens at a flea market with a GF cap that is probably not original but was in great shape. My friend ended up getting it for a mere 10 dollars and I traded him something for it.

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II PIFed a couple of Wearever lever fill Pennants for a good cause so I don't regret that but at some point I need to replace them. They fit my "Willy Loman" lifestyle better than other pens.

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II PIFed a couple of Wearever lever fill Pennants for a good cause so I don't regret that but at some point I need to replace them. They fit my "Willy Loman" lifestyle better than other pens.

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Yea... Lamy 2000 but it was more wanting other nibs. Started with F then sold it for B, then sold that and got a M which is what I'm liking in that pen. Franklin-Christoph model 02. Platinum 3776, Sailor 1911/Pro Gear.

 

I just got a F-C Model 40 Panther so might sell my model 31, but could see buying another 31 someday if I did that.

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Hi JVR,

 

If you have the remotest doubt - DON'T sell. A few years ago, I sold off quite a few pens w/o any qualms at the time. Today, I wish I still had them. :(

 

 

Sean :)

 

 

I have put most of my pens away and the ones I've forgotten about, I'm pretty sure are going to go. The ones I remember, I either put back in rotation or I look at and put away again. Some are expensive and I really don't need three Aurora's. So, something's gotta go. But I'm a bit more hesitant about limited editions than about pens I could rebuy again if I were to go as crazy as I was in the past.

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I would be more hesitant with limited editions and pens that you can't easily get again (the recent blue Lamy 2000 special edition for instance).

 

Funny you should say that, because out of the two Lamy 2000 pens I have — an as yet completely unused Makrolon, and the blue Bauhaus limited edition which I have used as my "introduction" to the Lamy 2000, both with EF nibs — I'm more inclined to sell the blue Bauhaus L.E. and not look back. A L2k Makrolon is simply going to be part of my "library" due to it being an "iconic" fountain pen, without my having any special love for that model, but the blue Bauhaus would probably easily sell for five or six times as much as the effective purchase price I paid for the Makrolon.

 

The pen I hesitate to sell is a new Sailor Profit21 with a Naginata Concord Emperor nib, which simply isn't made and offered by Sailor any more even after it doubled the MSRP on all the Profit21 pens fitted with Naginata "specialty" nibs, just last year when it resumed production of a small number of variants. That I won't be able to easily replace or replicate, as far as the capability or writing experience goes.

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Yep, Lamy 2000 as well. I got an EF when I first started into FPs, then it faded for me as I moved on to other things, so I sold it. Just the other day, though, a fellow local pen club member posted for sale his Lamy 2000 M and I went for it. Maybe this one will stay in the rotation. I'm in the midst of the same thing with Pelikans. I was hot for them when I first got started, but now they are dormant and I'm close to selling.

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So many pens I’ve bought and sold over the years.....very few I have been able to replace because of lesser financial circumstances these days.

 

Most likely the Parker Norman Rockwell LE or the Aurora Optima 3 piece Italian Flag set.

 

Neither of which I could afford to replace today.

 

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I have put most of my pens away and the ones I've forgotten about, I'm pretty sure are going to go. The ones I remember, I either put back in rotation or I look at and put away again. Some are expensive and I really don't need three Aurora's. So, something's gotta go. But I'm a bit more hesitant about limited editions than about pens I could rebuy again if I were to go as crazy as I was in the past.

Hi JVR,

 

Well, just my two cents, but if I were you, I'd split the difference: keep the LE's and chuck the rest.

 

 

Sean :)

https://www.catholicscomehome.org/

 

"Every one therefore that shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father Who is in Heaven." - MT. 10:32

"Any society that will give up liberty to gain security deserves neither and will lose both." - Ben Franklin

Thank you Our Lady of Prompt Succor & St. Jude.

 

 

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Lamy 2000 and. MB Dumas with a luscious stub nib. I’ve re-purchased the Lamy, but the Dumas I’ll always regret.

I can't stop buying pens and it scares me.

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Funny you should say that, because out of the two Lamy 2000 pens I have — an as yet completely unused Makrolon, and the blue Bauhaus limited edition which I have used as my "introduction" to the Lamy 2000, both with EF nibs — I'm more inclined to sell the blue Bauhaus L.E. and not look back. A L2k Makrolon is simply going to be part of my "library" due to it being an "iconic" fountain pen, without my having any special love for that model, but the blue Bauhaus would probably easily sell for five or six times as much as the effective purchase price I paid for the Makrolon.

 

The pen I hesitate to sell is a new Sailor Profit21 with a Naginata Concord Emperor nib, which simply isn't made and offered by Sailor any more even after it doubled the MSRP on all the Profit21 pens fitted with Naginata "specialty" nibs, just last year when it resumed production of a small number of variants. That I won't be able to easily replace or replicate, as far as the capability or writing experience goes.

 

 

I guess it would depend on why you value a given pen. In my case, some of my favorite pens just happen to be limited/special editions. My Pelikan M800 Renaissance Brown, for example. I don't love it just because it is a limited edition. I love it for the material and the color. I would have bought it even if it were a standard pen in the normal M800 lineup and I'd love it the same. I use it often and it has been perpetually inked since the day it arrived...I guess I'm not treating it the way a "collector" might treat a limited edition, lol. I'd actually prefer if it weren't so rare -- if I break/damage/lose it, I might be out of luck getting a replacement! This is similar to how you feel about the Sailor with that special nib.

 

But for someone else who is actually a "collector" and buys pens because they happen to be limited editions for the sake of having them -- and not always to use as a tool like I do -- I guess I would say that person should be more thoughtful about what they sell off, because those pens could be harder to get again in the future. Still, having doubt alone shouldn't stop a consolidation, but it should encourage thoughtful reflection.

 

That being said, I think you (@Smug Dill) should totally sell that Lamy special edition. It's status as a limited edition isn't as important to you as it would be to a collector. But maybe wait a year. You stand to make a profit, I bet! Alternatively, as a humble gesture of friendship and goodwill, I'd also be willing to take it off your hands should you feel that selling it is just too much effort. I'll gladly even buy that pen a one way plane ticket to the USA too! I know shipping from Down Under is pricey. I know, I know, I'm a giver... :D

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