Fountain Pens In Saudi Arabia?

[MX5l]

Hello everyone!

 

I've been lurking on this forum for roughly six months now ( ) and figured I'd finally join in. I only have a very small collection of a few pens (Pilot 78G, two Safaris, two Al-Stars and most recently, a Faber Castell Ambition in Pearwood), but am looking forward to building up a more varied collection

 

Now, my dad is currently working in Saudi Arabia for a bit so I thought that it would probably be a good time to make the most of the exchange rate and the fact that pens in Australia seem to be VERY expensive (My Faber cost me the equivalent of ~$180USD) I thought I would ask around if you guys knew of any places which would stock FPs in Saudi Arabia.

 

Thanks

[smk]

I'm sure there will be a number of Montblanc boutiques but the prices in the Middle East are generally higher than you will find elsewhere.

 

There are a couple of well stocked pen stores in Dubai. See if you can get your father to visit them on a visit to Dubai. One is The World of Pens in Jumeirah Town Center and the other one is Pens Corner located in Al Khaleej Center. There are Montblanc boutiques in Dubai Mall and Emirates Mall.

 

Salman

[MX5l]

Thank you for your response, I'll be sure to let him to know if he ever stops by Dubai

 

I did ask him to have a look around when he had some time to spare and he told me that Mont Blanc, Cartier and Dunhill were quite easy to find...Unfortunately I was looking for something a bit cheaper.

[Fabienne]

Hi and welcome! How about asking him to bring back some traditional Saudi calligraphy tools? That would be very rare I think. Settle in and have fun here on FPN, it's a very enjoyable place.

[basterma]

I imagine if he looks for regular stationery shops he should run into lower end pens sold to school age students.

 

A quick search reveals Jamjoom General Agencies as a possible local agent for Pelikan and maybe Parker. You also have the locator service from Waterman. Four cities in Saudi Arabia are listed. http://www.waterman.com/en/experience/shop

 

No Affiliation with any of these.

 

Saudis love bling, so I would expect some pretty gaudy offerings at the duty free shops in various Saudi airports as well.

 

Hope this helps.

[de_pen_dent]

If pens are anything like most other stuff in the Middle East, you'll be better off buying from a US store and having it shipped over to Saudi using something like Aramex. That's what I used to do for pretty much anything I wanted when I used to work as a consulting in the Middle East.

[basterma]

The service is called Shop and Save. For a yearly dollar fee Aramex sets up P.O. boxes in the UK and USA that your father can use to order goods. They then ship it to him and he pays customs per a schedule they give him. They have it in Egypt, possibly in Saudi Arabia as well.

[Tweel]

My sister lives in Saudi Arabia, and no one will ship there because it's an effective black hole -- tracking stops at the border. She has to use a re-shipping service along the lines of Aramex. She said it costs a fortune, though, so maybe she hired the wrong company.

[ProfQ]

I know this is an old post, but I am new, my first post

 

I have recently started to rejuvenate my collection of fountain pens.

 

I was able to ship to saudi Arabia with no problems at all from Cult of Pens, UK, and I just placed an order from Pen Chalet, USA.

 

It seems that some one in the post is a graduate of Purdue, Go Boilers.

[Tweel]

Not a graduate of Purdue, but a long-time resident of West Lafayette and interested in the local history (my signature line is from a letter written to his niece). As well, my fiancée's father was a prominent EE professor, one of my best friends a history prof... and many other faculty friends and connections.

 

Glad to know that shipping to KSA has improved.

Edited April 7, 2015 by Tweel

[hassankhaja]

I went to south Riyadh and found some okay shops. It's no Goulet Pens, but there was stuff there I couldn't find anywhere else in Riyadh.

 

I found a shop here that sells Rhodia notepads. I bought numbers 13, 15, and 16, but there were other sizes as well. I can't remember exactly where, but it's only a few feet away from this shop on Atayif Street:

 

https://maps.google.com/?cid=6129891380874338750

 

Pilot's local distributor is here:

 

https://maps.google.com/?cid=4908125115925587648

 

I turned the other way when they said they only had medium nibs. They have Iroshizuku ink. There's a stationary store nearby with Parkers and Cross pens.

 

I saw a Lamy distributor here on the same road north of the Pilot store. I can't identify on the map though.