Editing The Pen Addict 46/transcript (section)

== Snapper Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we're going to have to do some follow-up. If I can come up with an easy source for the Snapper, I'll get one. Because I would like to see. I mean, this would be a good test. I can take the prototype and see if anything's changed from the release model. And I think these just came out this week. Was it this week or last week that they started promoting these? Do you recall?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that was Friday.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Friday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, Friday of last week. Maybe it could be a good one for a guest review, if any of our listeners have bought one. And they want to contact you, I guess, for that. I mean, I feel like we wouldn't be as harsh if their usual quality wasn't so above par. Right. In this price bracket, I still remain that I've yet to find a better quality pen than the Retro 51 Tornado standard version. But the $25 price bracket, I don't think you can find anything better, personally. Fountain pen, rollerball, ballpoint. I personally think there is no better pen in this bracket, which long-time listeners will know. I still feel that way. But I think maybe if that wasn't the case, we wouldn't be so harsh on it. But this is subpar for them to come out of a product like this, I feel. And it's a shame. And if it is the same, I'm surprised that they did it because I was very honest with mine. And I said to them I didn't feel like the quality was the same.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I said flat out that if they went to market in the shape that it's in, it's going to be a problem for them. That was my exact comment. I mean, I didn't hold anything back on it at all because I felt when there's a product you love and a company you love, when they do something that doesn't live up to what they've been in the past, I mean, you let them know because, I mean, there's no sense in not to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they sent it to us for a reason, right? Right. And I guess because they know how much we enjoy their product.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So it's interesting. We did have some of the same comments on it. I've been interested to know what you felt about it all along. But, yeah, it's – I will get one of these pens, a snapper. It's the only fair thing to do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I agree with that, actually.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I don't want – like I said in the beginning, I just wanted to be clear about the prototypes that we got. And hopefully those issues have been corrected in the production model. And I will work on getting a snapper here pretty quickly so we can have a follow-up discussion to see if something changed or if something's not. And if it's changed, I will probably praise the pen. And I may not use it as much just because I'm not a huge ballpoint fan, but it doesn't – wouldn't mean it wasn't a poor pen just because it was a ballpoint. It would make it a poor pen if they didn't change the bad mechanism that both Myke and I experienced. So I think the only fair thing to do would be for me to purchase this pen and review it and then we can talk about it and have a follow-up on our Retro 51 snapper discussion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Unfortunately, there are no – none of the suppliers that I use have these in stock or even have them listed as going to be in stock any point soon. So I won't be able to get hold of one because I would want to do the same.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, and I'm with you. It's the same situation here. They're not – they've just been released. They're not in wide sale yet. So as soon as – if someone finds one for sale in the U.S., send me the link. I'll order it and I'll be keeping an eye out for – they just announced them, so they're going to take a little bit just to get pushed out to the retailers and things like that. And then the retailers, when pins show up at a retailer's door, they don't go on the website that same day. There's a lot that goes into it. So it might be a few weeks to a month before I can get a hold of one of these, but I will definitely do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or if Retro 51 are listening and they want to send us to test or send you to test a final one, then please do. Yeah, that too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They know how to get in touch.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We want to give it a fair shake. Yeah, no doubt. I agree with you. That is the right thing to do, I think, is for us to check in and feedback.