Editing The Pen Addict 176/transcript (section)

== Pen Addict Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' This one really, to me, doesn't feel like a pen addict's pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. If you ask me, like, for a recommendation and you listed all these things, I'm never going to recommend this pen to anybody, right? I'm excited about this pen for me personally because it fits a lot of things that I like. I would never in a million years recommend this pen to almost anybody. You know? It's not that type of pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, Dan is providing some great color in the chat room. They did do some engineering upgrades on the inside part of the pen type B. And the reason the price went up is because they are now manufacturing it in the U.S. They began manufacturing China.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So, that's why the pen type A was such a madness cluster. You know what? And these are done out of a shop in Vermont that they're using.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. So, they can get the quality control that they need, which sometimes can be a problem with Chinese manufacture.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. And if anyone is not familiar with the pen type A and that whole story, just do some Google searches there. If you're interested in Kickstarter and Kickstarter failures and successes and rip-offs, look no further than the story behind the pen type A. It's quite amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Quite amazing. We covered it, you know, it was 100, 130 episodes ago. It's forever ago. Since it's happened, it's been a good three years at least, huh? Three, four years.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Did we actually really talk about it? I feel like the pen type A existed before us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, no, we talked about it because of the rip-off that happened afterwards. There was another pen that came and it was a whole deal with one of the guys that was working with them, basically, hauled off and started making the pen under his own name with the same design. But, you know, it's a whole story because the design was generic anyway. It was an old medical patent. I mean, this is an hour-long show if I start talking about this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm going to put a link in the show notes to episode 16 where we talk about the popularity of pens on Kickstarter with the pen type A starting it all. So there's probably quite a bit in there. That might be a nice little thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, Dan says they stole the design from an old patent. If the patents expired, they didn't steal anything. So they had the design liberated from them as well. So me and Dan like to fight about the pen type A.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know you do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They agreed to disagree on that one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You and Dan like to fight about many things.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah.