@aguynamedoleg ...but rather just make of a material that may be rarer or maybe it costs that much just so people can show off, because it's not like pen technology is so great it is worth more than £100... Companies obviously see that people are willing to buy extremely expensive pens for some reason and just go with that.
Even £50 seems rather expensive for a pen for me.
@aguynamedoleg A lot of cat owners apparently grow their own grass in their house in like a little pot for the cat because that way they know it's totally healthy.
Because I have a tendency to lose pens or give them away in school and find myself without one I think having a more expensive on would mean I would remember it a little easier and take more care of it, as well as my writing quality being better.
I think a pen that is £200 is probably not better than one that is £100...
@aguynamedoleg Well because I use to write with my pens a long time, the price is very good on long term usage, if you have to buy one monthly now you can call that expensive, but I don't pay for them :)) , my father gives them to me from his job , I only change the reserve.
@pompiliupopescu Wow, expensive pens you write with ;) I have hundreds of these TD Bank Pens that I get for free, everytime I go into the Bank. Though, I have a special red pen, that I used and now I think I will keep and cherish for, graded young students work with it some time ago, but some time passed and I have forgotten that experience and now I am thinking about it :)
@SubRosaSpear to each his own :) Yeah I have been thinking maybe it would be a good idea to spend some $ and get a "special pen" I am beginning to understand why such a thing even exists, you know like you said, a $25/30 pen, assuming I did the rough estimate on british pound to USD correctly, but I remember seeing fountain pens that are in the hundreds, and I bet there are ones out there in the thousands. I bet maybe a very succesful author Stephen King writes with one of those.
@Drshorr I do not want to spoil it :) I will have a 19part series to my Canada experience.
aguynamedoleg 1 month ago
@aguynamedoleg haha no way im from quebec! did you go to the montreal region where i live near or In the city of quebec
Drshorr 1 month ago
@SubRosaSpear Yeah, but maybe it is there some kind of natural pattern to it, for a writer that is.
starting out - cheap pen
publishing your "writing" - maybe get a more expensive pen
publishing your 3rd big seller book - maybe get a more expensive pen
winning a nobel peace prize or the pultizer(sorry mispelling) - maybe upgrade the pen again
It gives it a little bit more meaning, because you can afford to "upgrade" idk, I think some people do that with cars, in the US at least.
aguynamedoleg 1 month ago
@aguynamedoleg ...but rather just make of a material that may be rarer or maybe it costs that much just so people can show off, because it's not like pen technology is so great it is worth more than £100... Companies obviously see that people are willing to buy extremely expensive pens for some reason and just go with that.
Even £50 seems rather expensive for a pen for me.
SubRosaSpear 1 month ago
@aguynamedoleg A lot of cat owners apparently grow their own grass in their house in like a little pot for the cat because that way they know it's totally healthy.
Because I have a tendency to lose pens or give them away in school and find myself without one I think having a more expensive on would mean I would remember it a little easier and take more care of it, as well as my writing quality being better.
I think a pen that is £200 is probably not better than one that is £100...
SubRosaSpear 1 month ago
@aguynamedoleg Well because I use to write with my pens a long time, the price is very good on long term usage, if you have to buy one monthly now you can call that expensive, but I don't pay for them :)) , my father gives them to me from his job , I only change the reserve.
pompiliupopescu 1 month ago
@SubRosaSpear Taking Charlie 5ft away from my home = death sentence, I will try to pick up some grass next time I am around it and see if it works.
aguynamedoleg 1 month ago
@pompiliupopescu Wow, expensive pens you write with ;) I have hundreds of these TD Bank Pens that I get for free, everytime I go into the Bank. Though, I have a special red pen, that I used and now I think I will keep and cherish for, graded young students work with it some time ago, but some time passed and I have forgotten that experience and now I am thinking about it :)
aguynamedoleg 1 month ago
@Drshorr Quebec.
aguynamedoleg 1 month ago
@SubRosaSpear to each his own :) Yeah I have been thinking maybe it would be a good idea to spend some $ and get a "special pen" I am beginning to understand why such a thing even exists, you know like you said, a $25/30 pen, assuming I did the rough estimate on british pound to USD correctly, but I remember seeing fountain pens that are in the hundreds, and I bet there are ones out there in the thousands. I bet maybe a very succesful author Stephen King writes with one of those.
aguynamedoleg 1 month ago