Astonishing Price For M200

[stephanos]

You, too, can own your very own Pelikan 200, with italic nib.

Buy it through Amazon UK, and it can be yours for only a shade more than GBP2,637 (+P&P).

Hurry: there are only three left!

[T4TEXAS]

Great deal if it came with free shipping.

[Calamus plasticus]

Wow, what a bargain... unfortunately, I don't like that colour...

[Doug1426]

Okay, so I get all excited and then the not so fine print says they don;t deliver to the US. What am I going to do with my extra twenty three hundred quid....buy a bar of soap? Sheeesh, another great deal I missed out on!

[carlos.q]

Dang! They don't ship to Puerto Rico...

[ppdiaporama]

They don't ship to Canada ... however ... amazon.ca has a great deal on this Monteverde Invicta with a Broad nib.

Edited May 3, 2016 by ppdiaporama

[Cyber6]

You horrible people... I actually got excited, :roller1:

 

 

Hold on.... M200 is too small for me... :P

 

 

 

C.

[sargetalon]

Now that is one pricey pen. Guess they only need 1 sale to cash in but can someone be nuts enough to make a purchase?

[DrCodfish]

I may be the one person you know of who wants one of the new M200 models, even though I think they are over priced. Unfortunately I just unloaded all of my expendable budget on a bathroom remodel so cannot take advantage of this great deal.

[Matlock]

I see they only have three left at that price. Might buy if they combine postage

[dasXFnib]

I'd go for it.....ONLY if they offered "volume discounts"....!!!

Getting 3 all at once.....yeah....that'd speed up divorce proceedings.....measurably!!

 

Always try to get the dibs....on fountain pens with EF nibs!!

[twdpens]

Never mind the M200. You should see the other "bargains" from the same seller, like the "rust proof" toilet brush for £164.66 (3 of those in stock), vacuum cleaner bags for £82.30 (3 of those too) or the geography revision book for £197.38 (you guessed it, 3 of those as well).

[Gofixmix]

Ha ha, I bought mine for £26.

 

I always thought it's too good for that price

[inkstainedruth]

I looked at the link, just for curiosity's sake. Wonder what the seller would say about my scoring a Café Crème on eBay a couple of weeks ago. I did the currency exchange online then did the math with the handy little calculator app on my laptop. And I could buy nearly *32* Café Crèmes, given the same price as mine. Which came with free shipping....

And while the nib on mine is steel, not gold plated, it's a bazillion times more interesting (I'm guessing an italic B or maybe even a BB from the width of the line it puts down).

I wonder if the seller's real name is Barnum....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Or if he's related to that guy that was trying to (repeatedly) hawk the "rare" Bock pen on eBay a few years ago....

Edited May 4, 2016 by inkstainedruth

[Newjelan]

Oh damn, what a shame he doesn't ship to Australia. Never mind, it's lucky I already have one, although I'm pleasantly surprised at how well it's appreciated over the years.

[Erik Dalton]

Checking Amazon UK every so often can pay off. Every so often they have some really good deals. I picked up a brand new M800 Anthracite Stressman for $350 a little while back.

[stephanos]

Never mind the M200. You should see the other "bargains" from the same seller, like the "rust proof" toilet brush for £164.66 (3 of those in stock), vacuum cleaner bags for £82.30 (3 of those too) or the geography revision book for £197.38 (you guessed it, 3 of those as well).

 

Now that's just taking the p...

[Kodachrome64]

Aww...I had my hopes up.

[josera]

I thought, it was 2.63 £ and not 2630 £.

 

[frogbaby]

You see these kinds of prices all over Amazon on all their sites.

I wonder what is behind this ?

I suspect it is some kind of computer algorithm run amok ?

There is a long tradition of booksellers asking ridiculous prices for books they claim are rare or OP and I suspect some people actually pay these ridiculous prices.