Editing The Pen Addict 8/transcript (section)

== UK Pen Suppliers ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sent in a note about some UK pen suppliers. And kind of just said, oh now that Brad has moved on from JetPens, can you speak about these? And it wasn't, we weren't, I wasn't consciously ignoring them. Oh sure. It was just, I didn't know that these companies existed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, we can speak about anything, anytime. So yeah, it didn't have anything to do with.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, it really didn't. And I just wanted to mention that part because I wanted people to know that just because Brad was employed by JetPens and even now still has like some, you know, an affiliation with them. Sure. With sponsorship and stuff. I've only ever mentioned it because it felt like the only place I could find this stuff in a consistent form. I didn't want to post to places I couldn't trust. You know, I didn't want to say to someone, go spend this money. Right. And then a pen never shows up. Right. So Edith suggested two different outlets. I can't think of the right word. Yeah. Outlets. Yeah. One called Tiger Pens and one called Colt Pens. They look to have a great selection.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I'm somewhat familiar with Colt Pens. I have a friend on Twitter that actually one of the first readers of the Pen Addict blog and one of the first guys to say, hey, you're doing a great job. It actually works for Colt Pens. His name is Michael Randall, I think. He's on Twitter at PigPalmM. I'll send you the link. And I think Michael might be actually the first person I followed on Twitter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, if you can go back in your Twitter and I think it's chronological on how you started following people. He might be the very first person on there. But yeah, he's a real good guy. I've talked to him a bunch over the years and they have a really good store wide selection. I'm trying to think if I've ordered from them once. I can't remember if I have or haven't. You know, I like to test out, you know, some other shops every now and then. And I can't remember if I've ordered from Colt Pens or not. But they have a really wide selection. They're UK based.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah. So that'll be good for me finding some stuff. The only thing is and this is what this is one of the reasons I brought up and wanted to talk about it was on price. So looking at their store, everything is cheaper than you would find it in the shops, for example.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like if you walked into a brick and mortar store.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And the selection that they've got and the prices that they have are very competitive and that's fantastic. But the exchange rate, it can't. Colt Pens cannot beat the exchange rate that I get from Jet Pens. Because obviously everything's in dollars. Right. I'm getting things much cheaper and there's no VAT, my value-add-tax either. So however, the delivery is free and will be a lot faster and more reliable.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. For sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which is another thing. So if I want something and want something quick, this is where I'm going to go. Although I haven't had a massive look around the store. As I said, they do have some stuff that I've not been able to find. Like a few weeks ago when we were talking about notepads, you pointed me in the way of Lecterm 1917. Mm-hmm. And they have those books in stock. And I said to you before we started, they're seven pounds for the regular notebook, like the classic. That's half the price of a Moleskine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's crazy. Because that's a really good quality notebook. That's a good deal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And that's, you know, there's a hardcover as well. Mm-hmm. It's incredible. So, oh, no, sorry, the hardcover's $8.95. But that's still, I mean, you're looking for a Moleskine of that sort of size. You're looking at anywhere between 10 to 18 pounds. Wow. So, you know, I'm running low on my work Moleskine at the moment. Mm-hmm. So I'll definitely be looking to get one of these. But, yeah, as I said, they have a really good selection. So it's good to see another store. And if any other listeners have anywhere that they buy their goods from, please send them along. Because I'm always looking. Because not everywhere has the same stock of the same stuff. And it's always good to find interesting new items, right? That's what we love the most.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah. Definitely that's what gets us in trouble in the wallet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Are they stocked Kaweco?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' At Colt Pens. Cool. Which is nice. Oh, the pouches. They're very nice. They're very attractive. Anyway, I'm going completely off track. And I've just found myself just searching through the store. So I'm just going to get rid of that now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, thank you, Edith, for bringing that up to our attention. For sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Definitely. I'm very happy to find out that there's other places. And as always, really, really pleased when people get in touch. And you can do that. If you want to get in touch, you can do that by going to 70decibels.com forward slash contact. And we have a contact form that you can fill out there and send stuff through. Or if you want to email, because that contact form goes to me. But if you wanted to email Brad directly, you can do that by emailing him at thepenaddict at gmail.com.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is it thepenaddict or penaddict?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nope. The email address is thepenaddict at gmail.com. The website address is penaddict.com.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Even though I convinced you to buy thepenaddict.com a little bit. A while ago because it was available. And I thought you were a madman for not owning it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I forced you to buy it before I did. Held it at ransom.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Exactly. Exactly. Well, I can just start doing some funny audio stuff on this show. We'll see how that goes for you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Get back at you. Well, I guess I've already blown up my ringtones on your show. Luckily, we've gotten through this show ringtone free. So we might want to wrap it up while the getting's good.