Sailor Yamadori replacement

[AmandaW]

22 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I don't see a good reason to have two open bottles of nominally the same ink just to check the differences, if I'm not already at the cusp of finishing the opened bottle…

LOL, I did exactly that with a Noodler's ink just recently. 

[A Smug Dill]

26 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

LOL, I did exactly that with a Noodler's ink just recently. 

 

I know you did, for my sake no less! Thank you so much, and I apologise for putting you out like that.

 

By the way, I just checked, and panda dropped its prices on the remaining stock (but not more Lexington Gray, of course… just some #41 Brown).

[AmandaW]

17 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I know you did, for my sake no less! Thank you so much, and I apologise for putting you out like that.

You didn't put me out. Curiosity got me. As always. Sharing the outcome makes it worthwhile.

[fireant]

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Just to be clear, this is intended to be neither a criticism nor a rebuke!

curred between one production batch and the next one, instead of when the retail product branding/format changed.

 

Oh no, I meant it in a I'm curious way. No snark was involved.

[A Smug Dill]

25 minutes ago, fireant said:

Oh no, I meant it in a I'm curious way. No snark was involved.

 

I understood it that way. What I meant was, other than out of clinical (as in nerdy, lab testing) and commercial (as in being an ink retailer, and seeing some benefit or at least risk mitigation in alerting prospective buyers to any differences) interest, it's unlikely that an ‘amateur’ would perform and publish a comparison of the two from actual retail bottles (as opposed to ink samples of somewhat opaque providence), because the information value to the owner of those bottles would be very limited in the present, the way I see it.

 

It's much easier to have and/or express a clinical an idle interest when the avenue of satisfying it doesn't cost oneself in time, effort, materials, and/or financial expense. I don't believe that discovery and provision of information, by or to those who have a genuine interest, ought to be free “for all”, with or without the Internet. But if the individual hobbyist is told it would cost at least the asking prices and delivery charge of two ink samples, as well as effort to then perform a meaningful and/or controlled comparison, that interest in some tidbit of information tends to be quickly dampened or extinguished.

 

Is there some way to crowd-source every piece of desired information, in an equitable manner such that the cost (in labour and materials) to the information sources would be crowd-funded as a sort of system or culture, such that information consumers don't expect every consumer dollar they spent would be on tangible products, “something to show for” it in exchange? I don't know.