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== Pen Mechanism Analysis ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let me tell you why I think this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' In plastic pens, in acrylic pens, like, I feel, like, clear means cheap. Mm-hmm. And if they didn't want it to be, like, a budget pen, it would be designed slightly differently. That would be my feeling on it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, and it's not clear whether the nib is steel or gold. So that would make a difference. We're assuming steel. Yeah, if the nib is gold, then ignore what I'm saying. But, yeah, I'm assuming steel.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Even at $60, I'm assuming steel.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. It'd be over $100 if it was gold. I just think there's cost in the mechanism, right? I agree with you. There's engineering cost in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But this seems like a really good pen to put in a stationery store because it will, like, attract people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But you can't sell.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just don't think it sells at that price. Yeah, and these are small pens, right? Your, like, mental math of what's happening in this picture makes it seem like a smaller size pen, right? And I, my feeling is... Like, a little bigger than a Kaweco Sport lengthwise.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't think that this mechanism is very complicated at all, Brad. Okay. Because there is a very clear design trade-off with the way that the Nock works. Like, this was not what they wanted when they came up with this idea. Interesting. For it to look that way when you've retracted the nib, right? Correct. Nobody wanted that. Right. But that's how it is. So, my feeling on that is, like, it wasn't... They maybe cut some corners to bring a price point down. I mean, they may have even cut corners to bring the price down to $60. But, like, these are all the reasons why I think that they might be going for, like, a more budget market. We'll see. I'm excited about it, though. This is a cool little find. I'm really keen to see, like, I hope we have the eagle-eyed pen addict audience on this one to find it when it starts appearing at different retailers and we'll get some prices.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I'm sure the retailers, once they launch this, they'll know the prices and we'll be on it. So, this is one we'll track for sure because it kind of falls into, like, everything that we talk about and are interested in pens. And now we're just going to have to edit out this entire segment because we're not allowed to talk about it, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's true. Yeah. It's not on the website. So, like, that was really bad of us to have mentioned it. I'm actually on Platinum's website right now trying to find it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I googled it. I googled it. I googled it. And just pages and pages and not even a single term ever popped up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm now looking through their HTML5, which is hilarious. From the homepage? Yeah, their catalog. Mm-hmm. Which is, this is one of the worst things I've ever seen. Oh, they're, I don't even try. They're just so bulky. Why would you do that? Like, it's, it's, I have to click to turn each page. Yeah. No, it's not on their website. I can't imagine it's going to be on their website for a bit then. Well, it doesn't exist. We didn't talk about it anyway. That's true. That's true. This is all a fever dream. This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Pen Chalet. They sell everything that you're going to need to satiate your stationary hobby in 2020. They sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, inks, fountain pen converters, pen holders, carrying cases, everything. Just go there. Whenever you're thinking of making a purchase for, or just want to browse around, go to penshalet.com because at any time you can get 10% off at penshalet.com when you click the podcast link at the top of the website and use the password penaddict. This is where you will get the 10% discount at any time. And also for this week's special offer, Ron wanted me to alert the penaddict audience that they are currently running a year-end inventory reduction sale, which typically means very, very good prices. So I would recommend that everybody goes over to penshalet.com right now. They sell high quality pens with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. They ship internationally with great shipping rates and free shipping on orders of over $50 in the United States. So as I said, go to penshalet.com, click the podcast link at the top of the website, use the password penaddict for this week's special offers, which is access to the year-end inventory reduction sale, and to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at penshalet.com. Brad, is there anything catching your eye?

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