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Hi, all

 

So today I finally got my hands on a Carene, and upon opening it I found that everything looked new, until I realized that the converter was already plugged into the pen.  Upon flushing the converter out (there were hints of water in it), I found there were traces of Serenity Blue coming out.   Is this normal?  I know some pen companies (ex. Lamy) test their pens before shipping, but I've seen reviews of the pen and generally they don't come with converters or the converter is packed somewhere else.

 

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Josh

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Did you buy it from a recognized dealer? Some of them also test pens before they send them out. My limited experience has been that, when they do so, they will tell you somewhere in the package of stuff that comes with the pen. 

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My new Carene had a converter installed when it arrived 3 weeks ago. No sign of any ink or water but then that shop doesn't do testing or adjusting and would never install a converter for free.

If it came, off the shelf, from a B&M store it may have been shown to a customer in store but then the sales assistant forgot to finish the clean up.

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19 hours ago, Paul-in-SF said:

Did you buy it from a recognized dealer? Some of them also test pens before they send them out. My limited experience has been that, when they do so, they will tell you somewhere in the package of stuff that comes with the pen. 

I bought it directly from Amazon and it was shipped from there, there wasn't a dealer in the middle or anything.

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18 hours ago, Steveg58 said:

My new Carene had a converter installed when it arrived 3 weeks ago. No sign of any ink or water but then that shop doesn't do testing or adjusting and would never install a converter for free.

If it came, off the shelf, from a B&M store it may have been shown to a customer in store but then the sales assistant forgot to finish the clean up.

Interesting to know!  Regardless, the pen has been writing well (aside from when I used it with a converter) so I think all is well anyway.

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Most high end parker and waterman pens I've bought have traces of ink from the nib shop testing the nib before it is passed out for assembly. 

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On 1/8/2021 at 6:40 PM, Flippy said:

I bought it directly from Amazon and it was shipped from there, there wasn't a dealer in the middle or anything.

Read Amazon's return policy, extrapolate from there.

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why.
And there wasn't a part of me that didn't want to say goodbye.

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