PARKERJotter, red, Blister, Old Model

I purchased this organiser on Monday and thought that it was going to be delivered for the following Wednesday (11th Nov) but it arrived on Saturday (7th Nov) instead! Was so pleased with the delivery and the product as a whole! The quality of the pen is very good and the price of this pen made it even more worth it! I've had a few parker pens before that I have misplaced and this one definitely makes up for it! Lovely colour too! Parker pens are by far the best pens to use, especially if you are like me who have to write a lot. I remember using one during my final A2 Accounting exam which I had to write a lot in, and normally my wrist would ache and hurt a lot since I am trying to write so fast, but it made me write effortlessly and smoothly throughout the whole exam!

I like this ballpoint (although you can't beat the old Parker 45 design which I have to hunt down secondhand these days) and my 15 year old grand daughter has come to like it as well. She likes to use it for her schoolwork as she has to do a lot of writing and wants something better than a cheapie biro and this seems to fit the bill for her. I find I'm buying them on a yearly basis as by the time the summer holidays arrive the pen is completely done in (don't know what she does to them!) but for the price I'm happy to pay out once a year for her to have something she's happy to write with.

I was worried, reading some reviews, that the goods would be counterfeit. On arrival, I have ten red Parker Jotters in plastic display boxes a little different to those I'm used to (the boxes that is), sent in a cardboard wholesale box designed for twelve pens, and they're the Jotters made under licence in India by Luxor Writing Instruments (and available engraved at only 175 rupees each from http://www.luxor.in/). The pens are good, the price excellent. The pens contain blue ball point refills.

No idea why it is called 'Special' as appears to be the same as a standard Parker Jotter Pen. I have only had the pen for a few weeks, but having had Parker pens previously I don't expect to have a problem with it. My only gripe, and the reason I deducted a star, is that it only comes with a medium blue ink. I actually wanted three pens, one black, one red and one blue, each with a corresponding ink colour. However, I appears that all Parker Jotter pens are sold with only medium blue ink in them. Thus, when I bought my black, red, blue pens, I also had to buy a black refill and red refill, and now have two blue refills removed from the black and red pens. I guess the spare refills will be useful in time to come.

I pen spin obsessively at work. This has allowed me to scratch my itch without looking like I'm spinning some goofy anime pen, and its well balanced. The pen itself is good quality, writing is smooth, never have any issues with it. Been on my desk for a few months now getting spin around and flicked everywhere, no damage.

I bought this Parker pen (summer 2011) for day to day work with a blue ball point refill in it. To my horror last week, I discovered that the pen refill has leaked from where the plastic bit joins the metal refill case. The inner core of the pen was completely covered in thick blue ink leaking through the end of the pen. I am extremely disappointed by the quality of parker refills these days ( particularly as, I have a parker refill from the 1980's in an old silver parker arrow pen that my father gave me which still works without any leakage, obviously I rarely use this due to sentimental reasons, needless to say this pen and refill was made in the UK in the 1980's! )On discovering this leakage, I then opened another parker pen which I bought in 2010 from Amazon with black refills bought from Amazon last year, I then found out that this refill too has started leaking at that exact joint.I will not be buying anymore parker pens or refills from anywhere in the future. I here CROSS pens and refills are made well!

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Writes well I have several of these pens and are good valueThe refills are at not as good quality.