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== Yovo Issues ==


'''Brad:''' It's an unanswerable question, because I can sit here today as a Yovo customer through the U.S. distributor who has sold and stocks hundreds of nibs. I cannot show you one single nib with this problem.

'''Brad:''' But then I go to someone like Permis World who, on their counter right now, has 10 cracked housings. Right? It's, there's, I don't know what to say about that, right? There's a definite problem. I do not have a bad batch of those nibs today. I mean, a lot of these nibs, you know, look fine also when they leave, you know? And they're, it's happening later when, you know, maybe they're getting screwed in and out for cleaning, and then you put it back in, and like, oh, like the first time I've actually unscrewed this nib, it actually caused an additional pressure that caused this crack. And it's like, I literally have zero nibs on hand with this problem. I also haven't gone through and inspected, like, all of my personal pens that I own. Say, like, you know, a bunch of Franklin Kristoff's, or Edison's, or Brooks pens, whatever uses Yovo, which is a crap ton of pens that I own. I haven't gone through and visually inspected them. So, and I certainly wouldn't be able to track, like, a time frame. Like, you know, it's like an impossible tracking situation, but it's a definitive issue, right?

'''Myke:''' How fun.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, good times, good times. So, it's, we're at the point, like I said, I said this already, and just to put a bow on it, it's, Yovo has to step up now. So, we haven't, I don't want to say we've done everything we can do, because there's always more, but everything that needs to be done from the consumer side, the maker side, and the distributor side is happening. Now it's in the manufacturer's lap to fix this permanently.

'''Myke:''' Oh, boy.

'''Brad:''' Hey, don't worry, Myke. We got more, we got more pen failures to talk about in this episode.

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'''Brad:''' It is. It makes cooking fun. It's almost like the party pizza oven, even though we use it just for our family and just say, we want pizza night, we'll cook it. But if we're going to have people over, we will make it an event where everyone can make their own pizzas, top them how they wish, and then I can have 10 pizzas cooked in the span of about 15 minutes if I'm efficient at moving them in and out, which is, it just blows people's minds at how cool and efficient this thing is and how good of a job it does. So yeah, huge Uni fan here at the Pen Addict household. Can't speak highly of it enough.

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'''Brad:''' All right, so I heard about this next issue on Tokyo Inklings. When I was talking about them last week, I should have brought it up, but it kind of just went over my head a little bit. I kind of didn't think too much of it. And it was an issue with the Pilot Capless LS. And if you don't recall this pen, this is the Vanishing Point model with that twist mechanism on the top.

'''Myke:''' What was that thing? Like, there was like a whole thing about it, right? It was hilarious to us.

'''Brad:''' I don't remember what it was now, though. It was like the twist, twist, knock thing. Knock twist. Yeah, knock twist. Yeah, so it's the knock twist. You would knock it, then it would twist, and then you would untwist, and it would re-knock the thing. So it's that pen. And it never really gained a ton of traction, despite being really cool and very quality-made. It was two to three times the price of a traditional Vanishing Point. Right, so where the Vanishing Point, you can get for under $200. These were more like mid-$400. I don't have the prices in front of me. But it was like the only new feature was that mechanism. And it's like, you know, you have to really be like a super fan. And so when they talked about it...

'''Myke:''' The whole idea was like people want to be on the move and fast, and it's just you just instead of clicking it down, you push it around.

'''Brad:''' It was dumb. It was dumb. So that's not why I'm bringing it up. I'm bringing it up because Pilot, I'm bringing this up because I don't recall ever seeing this before. And I want listeners to remind me, if I have, or you to remind me, Myke. I don't ever remember seeing a corporation issue a recall for a pen. Like, this is like a literal recall. Like, from Pilot Corporation.

'''Myke:''' This was funny to me when I saw it, because recalls are usually like, this is going to harm you, you know? Yes. Which I doubt, well, I mean, you can tell me, but I doubt that's what's happening here.

'''Brad:''' Mm-hmm. Yeah, so like, I'm going to read, this is a really short, short little document. It says, Thank you very much for your patronage of our Pilot products. Regarding our fountain pen, Capless LS, we regret to inform you that there is a possibility to cause a malfunction in the retractable function by rusting on the internal surface of the upper barrel. Therefore, we would like to replace the concern part with a new one. If you have any questions, contact us. In addition, we regret to inform you that the timing or the replacement could be started on or around November due to the unique clicking system specifically for the Capless LS. We shall inform you again as soon as the replacement part is ready. Please accept our sincere apology for any inconveniences. So there is the new twist-twist knock mechanism that is actually failing. It's rusting, and it's causing failures. Yeah, on the internals.

'''Myke:''' That's super weird, right?