Editing The Pen Addict 526/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pen Categories ==


'''Myke:''' I feel like. You could do starter pens. Which would all be cartridges. Right. Mm-hmm. Then you've got like. Upgrade pens. Which then. You start seeing. Ink bottles. And then like. Another category. I don't know the name of. But that's when we're getting into. Yeah. Premium. Premium pens. Premium fountain pens.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. It's just so hard to define.

'''Brad:''' A. It's hard to. Make a rule set. Around a group of fountain pens.

'''Myke:''' I think that there is an easy. Rule number one. Which is. Any starter pen. Use cartridges. Mm-hmm. Right. Yep. Like. There's no ink. There's no like ink bottles involved. Because. Right. No one's doing that. Really.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Outside of that. It's complicated. The categories are essentially. My first fountain pen. My upgraded fountain pen. And my hobbyist fountain pen. Right. Sure. That kind of. Kind of set up. So. I don't know. It's. It's. The prices are. Like. Almost. I don't want to say. Insignificant. Like. They're very. Also. The prices. To change. Expensive stuff. Yeah. I've had things move out of categories. Right. Like. The pen hasn't changed. But now it's a hundred dollars more. Like the sailor stuff. Yep. So. Yeah. I. There will be a lot of. Thinking on. On that. And I'm almost certainly. Going to redo it. Into something like we're talking about. I just don't have it. Like. Set up in my head yet. Yeah. Or clearly. Clearly defined. But that's. It's. It's going to be much. Different looking. Like. I don't. I think the price. Point list. For the fountain pens. Is.

'''Brad:''' Gotten kind of meaningless. So. We'll figure out a better way. To present that info. And. Like. I just. Basically. I want to get. My most recommended pens. List it out. And then. What. What categories. Do they fall in. And how can we group these together. So. We'll see. It'll be. It'll be good. So. I look forward to it. So. We'll. We'll continue on down. We have a. Well. That's actually going to be pretty close. The next list. Is top five pens in the store. Then we get right into. Top five fountain pens under 50. And that's where I'm going to have to. Break things a little bit. So. I look forward to. Tackling that here soon. Very soon. We got to get that updated.

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'''Brad:''' All right. Let's tackle some Ask TPA this week. And we've got. I've got some older questions in here. I need to get to. Put some good stuff. So how about we do that? I love it.

'''Myke:''' All right. I love it. The first one comes from Kai. Who says. So I've grown my collection. To about 40 or 50 pens. Now's the time for me to consider. Selling some of those pens. The ones that don't work for me. Or that I love. But don't find myself using constantly. What is the best way. For newer fountain pen hobbyists. To start selling gently used pens.

'''Brad:''' As weird as it sounds. And I've mentioned this before. Reddit slash rpenswap. Is legitimately good.

'''Brad:''' Many people don't use Reddit. Many people do use Reddit. Or most people in our community. Don't realize there is just a huge. Fountain pen community over there. Which has made the pen swap community. Very successful. It's very highly moderated. Right. They want everyone to have good transactions. I have used them very successfully. In buying pens. I haven't sold anything through there. But I've bought pens through there. I couldn't recommend it enough. To be quite honest. You know. Then we have other options. Like the pen addict slack. Which you can email me for an invite to. There's a buy sell channel in there. So those are kind of like the two best options. You can always go the eBay route. That's always a little bit weirder for me. Like especially if you're not experienced. With it. But that's kind of the main groups. Yeah. That I would go to first. And good for you for starting to thin the herd a little bit. You know. That's something I'm always trying to work on. I'm a little bit further behind. Than I wish I was in cleaning out some of my pens right now. But that's just the way. You know. Life goes sometimes. But I will be doing this myself. You know. Here. You know. I don't know. Probably after pen shows now. I'm just running up. Once you've done the 100. Running up to it. And yeah. So I have to do that. Like that's the other project I have to get done. Like really soon. By the end of the year. So both of the. I have two. There's two big projects for me to be working on. So yeah. Like I have 10 or 20 pens. Like I need to sell. So yeah. And those are the places I would look to first.

'''Myke:''' Saying about the pen swap. That's like. For keyboard sales. Like you used keyboard sales. The second hand market. There's a subreddit called Mac Market. And that's where it all happens. Okay. I bought things from Mac Market. Yeah. It's great. There's like. There's really strict rules about everything. Yep. And the way that you say everything. You have to post an image. With like your username. Yep. In the image. Like you've got to write on a piece of paper or whatever. Put it next to it. So you can prove that you had the product. Yep. And then. Like. There's then a bot that contacts you. To confirm the sales went well. Mm-hmm. Afterwards. Like I don't know. It depends what does this. But I think it's really clever. So. And then you. Then it's like. It's posted in a thread. Of like. Confirmed sales.

'''Brad:''' Right. Right. There's like a lot of interest and stuff. You do have to have a little bit of Reddit history. You know. To be able to list in these things. But it's pretty easy to. You know. To just. Hey. Go hang out in the fountain pens group. And you know.

'''Myke:''' It's a good idea. If you want to sell. On one of these forums. To actually start participating in it beforehand. Like just like. Right. Looking up. Voting. Maybe commenting. So you want us to get a bit more understanding. Of how to buy and sell in them. Mm-hmm. Rather than just like. Go in there and being like. All right. Let's get out the checkbook.

'''Brad:''' Right. Right. So yeah. Like I. I. Yeah. I would give it a thumbs up for me. So that's very cool. Fibber asks. What makes a good ink bottle?

'''Brad:''' A good ink holder. Or a good countertop. Mostly.

'''Brad:''' So that gets into the good ink bottle. Is. Solid base. Depth. And a wide opening. Yeah. And.

'''Myke:''' You got to be able to. For me. This is complicated. To be able to get the ink. Out. Of the bottle. Without needing to like. Put the bottle on its edge. Or something wild. Right. Like. The pure square. Ink bottles. For me. They don't. They don't. They don't go to the end. You know.

'''Brad:''' Yeah.

'''Myke:''' It annoys me.

'''Brad:''' So also.