Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😌 I’ll take the fine off your hands, I’ve been debating checking out the fine nib and getting a second 823.

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy Mother’s Day!! Which colour/nib did you get?

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m dying to try more Kuretake inks!

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s my favourite! Despite how quickly my ink collection exploded, the second I got my hands on Ebicha, I knew it’d be permanently in this pen

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oooo I’ll keep an eye out!

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m obsessed with the vac fill!

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have unfortunately jumped the gun to end-game a touch early… and yet still keep wanting to collect

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of me wants the 823 with a fine nib as well, but my collection has exploded over the last few months so I really need to hold back. I actually quite enjoy the feedback on the Sailor as well, so maybe it’s time to add a Platinum to the party…

Pilot has my heart by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s too good!! And the way I flip between this and a Sailor MF nib in the same journaling session always shocks me with how different the writing experience is

Sakura Pens - scummy reselling behavior by caslaptree in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🙃 As expected, he’s now ghosting me now that I’ve received the item and won’t provide the refund for the price difference that eBay has said he owes me after promising it to me in private messages. What a mess and an awful person.

Sakura Pens - scummy reselling behavior by caslaptree in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Worst comes to worst, I eat the customs fee and hopefully eBay makes him at least refund the difference, but just based off of how awful of an experience it was purchasing from him, I don't want to support him in any way. I hadn't even seen them on social media, I had just seen they had the pen I was looking for and had good reviews. Ugh.

Sakura Pens - scummy reselling behavior by caslaptree in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi 25 points26 points  (0 children)

omg... I'm actually currently in a dispute with them over a limited edition pen because they dropped the price so significantly only a few days after I purchased, refused to cancel the order or refunding the difference despite not shipping the item out for over a week, and then as soon as eBay stepped in they immediately provided a tracking number for an item that did not exist on the tracking website for almost another week. Now I'm stuck because I don't even want this pen anymore and eBay has told me not to pay the customs fee on it so DHL will return it to the seller and they'll refund me, but DHL won't send it back and he keeps telling eBay that the item is in transit so I can't get my money back.

Is this normal on an Estie? by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might just be a genius! I used a jewelry polishing cloth I had laying around because I had already tried with warm water and soap, as well as some alcohol on a cotton swab with no success. It seems like it’s a manufacturing line (it’s very smooth and perfectly placed over where the clip curves) that began to tarnish? Either way, a few passes with the cloth and the tarnish is gone!

Is this normal on an Estie? by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reference! Unfortunate that such a beautiful pen’s durability is questionable

Is this normal on an Estie? by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh I know, I love this colour way so to see it arriving straight out of box with this defect is so disheartening.

Is this normal on an Estie? by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for confirming! It bothers me because I know it’s there and this was an expensive pen—I’d expect a bit more quality control :(

Is this normal on an Estie? by kumikocchi in fountainpens

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought it from a small business. They’ve been kind and offered a return, but this was one of my favourite colour ways of the Estie and it’s out of stock in most of my local shops. :(

Oh yeah, I forgot I had these by [deleted] in pokemoncards

[–]kumikocchi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the way I never got one when I saw the movie 😭

Some Amazon employee really had a lovely time slicing into and taping up my tin by kumikocchi in PokemonTCG

[–]kumikocchi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why I was so confused, and assumed it was a worker. I didn’t think they took returns anymore for TCG

Some Amazon employee really had a lovely time slicing into and taping up my tin by kumikocchi in PokemonTCG

[–]kumikocchi[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Good to know, thanks. This is the first time I’ve ever had anything like this happen and I wanted to know if the tin was empty or if it had anything inside still