Editing The Pen Addict 110/transcript (section)

== Sailor Inks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So, gauntlet down. Scribble, people. So, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Prove us wrong. All right. Another update. This is a happy, sad update. But a lot of people have been asking me about the Sailor inks. There's been a lot of movement in the Sailor ink market here this month. And it's twofold. Number one, Sailor announced a couple months ago that they're bringing new seasonal inks in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And what they do, Sailor in years past, I don't know that they've done it recently. In years past, they have taken – they've run seasonal colors. Say like a field notes, you know, for spring 2011, they did, you know, some special, you know, purple color, whatever. So, those were limited edition. And, you know, once they sold them, they were gone. So, now they've taken like the last eight or so or eight popular seasonal colors. And they've taken those colors and they've moved them into the primary Sailor ink line. So, they'll be regularly available. On the flip side, they've taken some of their standard inks and done away with them. And that's the mind-boggling part here. So, the new inks, the new special – well, the new – god, it's been hard to figure out what they call these. The new seasonal inks that are now permanent part of the line are available. But the classic Sailor inks like My Favorite Sky High, Grenade, which is a hugely popular ink, Epinard, which is a green – Grenade's a red ink, a deep red. Epinard's a green ink. And Apricot, which is my favorite orange ink, are getting discontinued.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, basically, they went to penaddict.com, found all of your favorite colors, and then just discontinued them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm really upset about this. What did you do?

'''Myke Hurley:''' What did you do to Sailor?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I just bought the new ones. There you go. See, you ruined this, Brad. I know. But they're not going to – they're not going to – the problem is the new ones don't cover the old colors.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's not like they've brought in a new orange, a new – like, yeah, a new lovely blue. Yeah, I get you. They've just got a bunch of new colors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so, like, the Green – the Grenade, Epinard, Apricot, and Sky High, and Peach don't have a new color. Only Ultramarine has something comparable.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Huh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a shame.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, you know, these things have got to happen, I guess.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, but in talking with Anderson Pens, which we have a link to this in the show notes of an article that they put out because they're a sailor – dealer. There's still a lot of stock. Like, I know a bunch of people live for Grenade and Epinard, so they'll probably stock up. Yep. I'll probably buy another bottle of Sky High. I'm good on the Apricot right now. But I'm – it's a little weird. But the new colors are pretty good. Well, I say that. My comment to Brian Anderson was they introduced eight new colors, and the color range is very narrow. There's some – lots of dark colors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I take that back. There is a green that's in there, but it's not the same. It's kind of a dark muddled range of colors as a whole. So the only one that's a standout is one called Yamadori, which I already have – I ordered some – two new colors from Anderson when they – when these came out. I ordered the Yamadori, and I ordered – oh, what's the purple one? Sumire. Is that right? Yeah. Sumire. No, Shigur. Shigur. So I ordered two. So we'll see. Those look good. There's two other blues that are really close in color. There's two blacks. I mean, it's just not a huge variance in product line where like the standard sailor inks are. So I'm a little – plus the new inks are 50% more expensive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we've gone from $12.50 for a 50-milliliter bottle to $18.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it's a little concerning. We'll see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Interesting choices there made by sailor.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So some of their mainline, extremely, extremely popular inks are vanishing, and they don't have suitable replacements. So I'm a huge sailor fan. I'm not a huge fan of discontinuing these inks. So benefit of the doubt. So we'll see what they're going to do. But I just don't see any way that not having Sky High, Grenade, Epinard, and Apricot in their product line is a benefit to them. I think maybe what they're doing is they're going to rip them out and come back at a higher price like these, which is sad. But we'll see. That's just speculation on my part. I certainly don't know. But that's kind of the way this is tracking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I guess what we're going to have to do is wait and see about what sailor's going to do because I want to make sure that they are sure because they're definitely making some waves. I can't give it up, man. I'm going to get those puns in every now and then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Love it. Love it. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll see. And it seems like they have a new distributor in the U.S., so the news that's coming out on this has been kind of inconsistent so far. So now we finally got an answer on this. So we'll see what happens with the other inks the rest of the way. So I don't know. That's my – the new inks are very good. I'm happy with what I bought. I'm just not happy with the old ones going away because there's – I mean, I think two of those are in my top five inks. I'd have to look to verify, but I think that might be right. If not, they're way up there, very high.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Are they on your site? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sky High certainly is. I'm not sure where Apricot is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You have Sailor Sky High and Sailor Apricot number four and five. Yep. And they were new entries as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. I've been using them for a while, and I just keep – those are ones I keep going back to. That's how I know that they're good inks because I continue to go back to them. So we'll see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Should we take a break? Plenty of stock. Plenty of – yeah, plenty of stock. No, I was just going to say plenty of stock left for the next couple months. But get what you want now before they go away.

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