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Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product from you in the future

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Post by iancmceachern »

toadi wrote: post #33
iancmceachern wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely do. My wife and I regularly attend pen shows, own many different brands of pens not just monte blanc pens, in fact monte blanc are the minority in our collection. In the fountain pen world Monte Blanc is like Rolex or Tag is to the watch world. One od the foundational brands of the genre.

My personal favorites are waterman just because during highschool this was my favorite tool to write. The one I had at that time was expensive for me at that time ;)

They make very nice pens, a few others to check out besides Waterman and Monte Blanc would be Sailor, Pilot, Carolina pen company, Kweco, I'm sure I'm missing lots...

Re: Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product from you in the future

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Post by iancmceachern »

iancmceachern wrote: post #28
handsclean wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d expect it to be mediocre quality, not an outright scam. Legitimate businesses don’t randomly decide to run a scam, so the fact that Mont Blanc did it here makes me strongly suspect we’re just not seeing how they do it elsewhere. Maybe you like their products, but are you familiar enough with the competition to know that you shouldn’t be getting more or paying less?

Absolutely do. My wife and I regularly attend pen shows, own many different brands of pens not just monte blanc pens, in fact monte blanc are the minority in our collection. In the fountain pen world Monte Blanc is like Rolex or Tag is to the watch world. One od the foundational brands of the genre.

Replied to my own comment to share what people do with these pens:

https://www.artistandmasterpenman.com/

Re: Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product from you in the future

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Post by hammyhavoc »

MaxPengwing wrote: post #40
hammyhavoc wrote: post #16

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What's vengeful about buying their product?

what many rollerball users dont know is that you can take a Mont Blanc roller ball refill, which is by most rollerball users considered to be one of the best rollerball writing experiences, and place it in a Pilot G2 with out any issue. you'd get a 200+ dollar writing experience for about 8 dollars. https://unsharpen.com/pilot-g2-montblanc-hack-200-pen-for-7/ You could also do this with a fountain pen buy buying a go…

The Mont Blanc inks are all hype, IMO, as is pretty much everything they sell by modern standards since the acquisition and treatment of it like a luxury brand in the '90s rather than focusing on innovating in tools. Plenty of other decent inks for less. It's like saying Tiffany makes great jewellery and has great quality stones because the pricing is high.

The Jinhao 159 is creaky junk and buying it supports the CCP. As with the ink, it's people kidding themselves that just because Mont Blanc charges x for y then that must make x somehow special and worth having in 2023. For the same price point, you can do much better, and probably even go Japanese-made, and not support the CCP.

It's a century later, with modern manufacturing techniques, don't you think someone can do better than a Meisterstuck or Meisterstuck clone?

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Post by AHOHA »

purpleflame1257 wrote: post #24
AHOHA wrote: post #7

The only watch brand I buy is Casio, nothing smart, nothing for show off, it’s reliable, cheap, and certainly you can change its battery:)

If you go with solar you don't even need to do that. +1 for Casio

Exactly!

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Post by sschueller »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #18
sschueller wrote: post #4

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It's actually a good watch. Vanilla WearOS and a nice design. A crown that let's you navigate and it's made out of titanium with sapphire glass. I have a battery that fits but the connector is different. It is too small for me to replace and the risk of destroying the connector in a such tiny flex pcb is very high.

Is it? It's a grand, and it isn't repairable once the battery goes. I'd say that's a pretty shitty smartwatch (not priced to be disposable), and an even worse general watch.

I wasn't aware of that. I didn't want an apple watch and the other android watches all felt cheap. I also didn't want to spend what a TAG Heuer Connected would cost (which I believe has much better service). Yes, CHF 1000 is a lot but compared to an iPhone or a Samsung Fold which I do not own, I didn't see this watch as being too crazy.

Re: Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product from you in the future

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Post by pyuser583 »

iancmceachern wrote: post #28
handsclean wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d expect it to be mediocre quality, not an outright scam. Legitimate businesses don’t randomly decide to run a scam, so the fact that Mont Blanc did it here makes me strongly suspect we’re just not seeing how they do it elsewhere. Maybe you like their products, but are you familiar enough with the competition to know that you shouldn’t be getting more or paying less?

Absolutely do. My wife and I regularly attend pen shows, own many different brands of pens not just monte blanc pens, in fact monte blanc are the minority in our collection. In the fountain pen world Monte Blanc is like Rolex or Tag is to the watch world. One od the foundational brands of the genre.

In the watch world Rolex has a bit of a “poser” quality to it. It’s what watch people who are trying hard to show off get.

Unlike Patek Phillipe which is for true sophisticates.

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