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    Dear Sailor,

    Don't get me wrong. I love your pens. But would you please stop making sets of pens and pink pens for a few years? Again, I love them, but I really don't need every special edition or limited edition pink pen, each in a slightly different shade. My self-control thinks otherwise. It wants them all.

    In the interests of full disclosure, this plea applies to basically all fountain pen manufacturers. My motto should be Veni, Vidi, Emi ("I bought", according to google translate) And this plea goes out to all vintage pen sellers, too. I would never have thought that rummaging through my pen drawer and finding a 30-odd year old Waterman Phileas would have triggered this response. I suppose I should be glad I didn't find an unused sports car in my garage...

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    There are certainly some beautiful pens. Fortunately for me, most are too small for my hands. And too $. But pretty? You bet!

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    Gah! And now Platinum has announced a couple of sets I don't need but will buy all the same. The first is their annual Plaisir set. Not the most exciting set on the planet, but not hideously expensive and attractive enough. And then there's the Preppy Wa 2 set. Like I need another set of 6 extremely inexpensive pens. They are colorful and cheery.

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    I have this same problem...and as I read through this thread I have placed the new Platinum Preppy Wa pens on pre-order (oops). I was happy to see pink pens here and there until I realized I wanted ALL OF THEM!

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    I don't just want, I neeeeeeed all the pink pens. Or so says my lizard brain. My wallet tells me I am insane. Like I don't know this already?

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    I thought of this thread when I added a Levenger broad nib fountain pen to my shopping cart. Transparent Pink. Has a rollerball in same finish. What could I do?🤷*♀️
    Is there a Levenger thread in these forums?

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    Pink anything sells very well to the female market in Asia, particularly in Japan. You believe that the U.S. market is a bigger marketplace for Pilot than the Asian continent because?

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    kumachan. the OP wasn't saying the US market was a bigger marketplace than Asia or Japan. The US is an additional market that loves Pink pens, just as the EU is another market that enjoys Pink pens.

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    Quote Originally Posted by TFarnon View Post
    I don't just want, I neeeeeeed all the pink pens. Or so says my lizard brain. My wallet tells me I am insane. Like I don't know this already?
    Me but with pens that are blue and/or have penguin graphics. Any level from finest urushi/maki-e/raden and solid precious metals to plastic school pens.

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    My too i have big hands ; i buy KOP

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    I would amend the letter and tell Sailor to keep cranking out the special edition. Goulet Pens takes nice photos and I enjoy seeing the e-mails pop up with a new edition of Sailor pens. I may not buy one but my eyes do enjoy seeing them.

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    When I looked in my pen trays, I noticed that I have far too many black pens. I have several MB 146s and it is hard to tell them apart. Yes, I do have names for all my pens, but when they are triplets . . .

    Never having tried a Sailor pen, I recently considered purchasing a Sailor fountain pen, and was favoring a pink pastel colored full sized Pro Gear with a music nib.

    But this is what I ended up buying . . . . a black 1911 with a zoom nib! Another black pen that looks like an MB!!! Am I crazy?

    But, to redeem myself, - and after using that phenomenal zoom nib for a couple of weeks, I then purchased a 1911 Large in Ivory with a medium nib, and then a Pro Gear with a broad nib, and now a 1911 Large in Asian Way Purple with a fine nib.

    I think the Sailor bug has bitten me.

    I still want a music nib. May a Winter Sky Pro Gear. Hmmm . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrPenfection View Post
    When I looked in my pen trays, I noticed that I have far too many black pens. I have several MB 146s and it is hard to tell them apart. Yes, I do have names for all my pens, but when they are triplets . . .

    Never having tried a Sailor pen, I recently considered purchasing a Sailor fountain pen, and was favoring a pink pastel colored full sized Pro Gear with a music nib.

    But this is what I ended up buying . . . . a black 1911 with a zoom nib! Another black pen that looks like an MB!!! Am I crazy?

    But, to redeem myself, - and after using that phenomenal zoom nib for a couple of weeks, I then purchased a 1911 Large in Ivory with a medium nib, and then a Pro Gear with a broad nib, and now a 1911 Large in Asian Way Purple with a fine nib.

    I think the Sailor bug has bitten me.

    I still want a music nib. May a Winter Sky Pro Gear. Hmmm . . .
    The music nib is a paintbrush. A house paintbrush. And it's on my smallest Sailor, a mini-Sapporo, or whatever it's called. The cap threads onto the end of the section.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    Sailor: great (maybe the best) nibs; mediocre (or worse) resins. I'm also tired of the sparkles they add to nearly every other pen.

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    Default Re: Open Letter to Sailor

    Sad, sad, sad. The Asian Way Purple with a fine nib was one of the worst nibs I have ever purchased. It was super, super scratchy - not "feedbacky" but scratchy. I sent it back. I then later found a nice Sailor PG with a music nib for an exceptional price. I received it and found that it too had some issues. But because it was returnable, I decided to send it off with some other pens to my favorite nibmeister for a bit of tuning.

    In response to the OPs comments, look at the new Goulet Exclusive Sailor. It is "stealth purple" - meaning a dark purple with ruthenium furnishings - very elegant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrPenfection View Post
    Sad, sad, sad. The Asian Way Purple with a fine nib was one of the worst nibs I have ever purchased. It was super, super scratchy - not "feedbacky" but scratchy. I sent it back. I then later found a nice Sailor PG with a music nib for an exceptional price. I received it and found that it too had some issues. But because it was returnable, I decided to send it off with some other pens to my favorite nibmeister for a bit of tuning.

    In response to the OPs comments, look at the new Goulet Exclusive Sailor. It is "stealth purple" - meaning a dark purple with ruthenium furnishings - very elegant.
    I need to look at this stealth purple. I might need it.

    Also, more pens with glitter resin please.

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