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Hi all, hope I'm not being rude adding to this thread..But i bought a cheap fountain pen in Waitrose..I was doing a search on cheap pens and this thread came up...I paid £2.80..

 

Might be worth checking out, i don't know enough to do a review..

 

Pretty smooth body which i prefer, with just a slight lip on the silver ring, medium nib...

 

Sorry for quality of pic's...I have no connection with the company, just thought someone might be interested..

 

Andy

 

PS if ur interested in doing a review Gary i could mail it to u, after all its only 250 :ltcapd:

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Morrison's do a fountain pen, 'eraser' pen, and a couple of international cartridge for 75 pence. The small difference in price between the tesco and morrison's must go a long way, because the morrison's pen is basically unusable. It's a snap cap with no inner cap, so is always dried out.

 

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Gosh! He got so angry at the pen, he stabbed it!

"Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea. Agnes, on the other hand, was against being hit by flying bits of other people's cabbage." (Pratchett, T. Carpe Jugulum.)

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There is an updated demonstrator version of this pen that costs only 70p (approx $1.15) with two Int. Std. Cartridges included!

 

It is available in Turquoise, Pink and Green (Green is shown below).

 

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Bought this for a laugh really but surprisingly it isn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 

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But for the plastic, that looks exactly like the house brand pens sold in Daiso stores here.

 

It's the black pen in the pictures in my blog post --

http://strangeknight.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/cheap-pen-showdown-daiso-pen-vs-platinum-riviere/

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That actually really looks like the Woolworth's "Worth It" pen. The telltale design of the clip sparks it for me.

"Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea. Agnes, on the other hand, was against being hit by flying bits of other people's cabbage." (Pratchett, T. Carpe Jugulum.)

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Gosh! He got so angry at the pen, he stabbed it!

 

:vbg: I wasn't angry, it was all in the interests of science. Being so cheap and transparent, I could see how various cutting methods stressed the plastic, before cutting a blind cap on a more desirable pen.

 

 

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