I thought this might be interesting.

If you were buying a pen what condition would you expect to receive it in. I feel there is two scenarios and one rule here.

RULE You are buying a working pen.

SCENARIO 1 You buy from here or a similar environment where there is a community sense

SCENARIO 2 you buy from an anonymous place such as eBay.

I'm mainly concerned with should the pen have ink in it, be cleaned or flushed or just ink pushed out of it and your left to flush it all if you want to change inks.

I've had some interesting experiences and I wanted to hear others thoughts