amk
August 5th, 2014, 11:51 AM
There's a remarkably cheap limited edition maple wood VP on UK ebay at the moment:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131261713860?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
certainly that's less than half the UK price, though YMMV if you live in the US (£199 = $335 roughly).
It actually failed to sell this evening and has been relisted. I can see the issues with the listing - limited seller feedback, and the guy has used a single picture which seems to have been taken from a retail site, rather than his own photographs, and a marketing description, which looks slightly suspicious.
However.... if it's the real deal that price is pretty good.
It's beyond my budget and I don't collect Japanese pens (although I do have my sights set on a Hakase, one day), and I'm not associated with the seller in any way - so just posting in case one of the many VP fans around here is interested.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131261713860?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
certainly that's less than half the UK price, though YMMV if you live in the US (£199 = $335 roughly).
It actually failed to sell this evening and has been relisted. I can see the issues with the listing - limited seller feedback, and the guy has used a single picture which seems to have been taken from a retail site, rather than his own photographs, and a marketing description, which looks slightly suspicious.
However.... if it's the real deal that price is pretty good.
It's beyond my budget and I don't collect Japanese pens (although I do have my sights set on a Hakase, one day), and I'm not associated with the seller in any way - so just posting in case one of the many VP fans around here is interested.