Originally Posted by
Medieval
Originally Posted by
pajaro
Originally Posted by
Medieval
Oh dear, we have touched a raw nerve haven't we. I would hazard a guess though that 5 different nibmiesters are more credible than someone who is fanatical about Pelikans.
When you've calmed down enough to think rationally, you'll notice that we're talking about modern Pelikans, not ones that are 70 years old. The fountain pen market and manufacture has changed a lot since then, but then some people prefer to live in the past.
When you are thinking rationally, you might realize that nibmeisters have a vested interest in having you believe that Pelikans have nibs that likely need their services. You might want to accept these claims blindly, but I suggest you consider them in the light of a wider group of experiences before you decide all the new Pelikans need immediate nib alignment services. It's your money, though. I have no Pelikans older than 20 years. All have recently made nibs. These are among the few nibs that I have found 100% of to be aligned. I weigh the authoritativeness of these nibmeisters against experience, and it just doesn't jive. The nerve is that I have a college education and I examine claims and think about them. Where I have experience, I consider that. The nibmeisters' claims might be true, but I can't verify it. My experience is at variance. YMMV.
For that matter they have an interest in ALL nibs needing service. Mr S, for example, as I have referred to him, would not have steered me towards an example of a brand that makes good nibs while steering me away from Pelikan. If he really wanted my custom, don't you think he would have been encouraging me to buy a Pelikan? But perhaps you're not thinking rationally either.
Why have 5 different nibmeisters singled out Pelikan? Well maybe because it's true. I have no reason to doubt all of them especially as it tallies with my own experience and much of what I've seen and read.
I suggest you make contact many of the better known nibmeisters for yourself if you choose not to believe me.
Except for pens getting custom grinds, every pen sent in to a nibmeister has a wonky nib. In other words, 100% of the Pelikans sent to nibmeisters for service have bad nibs. That’s what’s known in the statistical world as a sampling error.
Now factor in the type of pen that someone is likely to send in for service. Is someone who spends $75 on a pen likely to send it in for a $50 adjustment/tuning? Possibly, but probably not. Now how about a $300-600 pen? Far more likely.
Example: Many, many years ago, Consumer Reports gave very low marks to Nakamichi cassette decks, and very high marks to Panasonic cassette decks, because the former had significantly higher repair rates than the latter. Why would anyone buy a cassette deck that was 5x more likely to be sent in for repair? Seems logical, no? To anyone who was into hifi in that era, this was a most puzzling development, since Nakamichi made the finest cassette decks in the world. The one factor that Consumer Reports hadn’t considered, however, was that Nakamichi cassette decks could easily cost in excess of $1500 (in 80s money) whereas the Panasonics were “disposable”. Obviously somebody is more likely to repair a $1500 component than they are a component whose replacement cost is less than the repair cost.
It had nothing to do with high likely it was that the object would NEED service, but rather how likely was that the object would BE serviced.
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