Cheap pens: Tesco 99p pen

[naoip]

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:

Edited December 6, 2011 by naoip

[Flounder]

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.

 

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/flounder2009/Morrisons75penceFP001Small.jpg

 

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/flounder2009/pressurebar001Small.jpg

 

 

[subbes]

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

[Readymade]

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).

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5574376491_7858b247e6.jpg

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5266/5574376731_86a7177176.jpg

 

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

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5574377029_f33f7eecc5.jpg

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5257/5574377183_d5b378b363.jpg

 

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/

[subbes]

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

[Flounder]

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

 

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.

 

 

Edited December 7, 2011 by Flounder