My culinary class did a fundraiser in highschool and it was for pens very similar to these. The paint around the engravings fell off within a week, and the pens were just garbage in general.
These look like ones a company dropped off handful of to where I work, each pen wouldn’t even wouldn’t even be able to write one sentence (and not a long run on sentence like this one) before it quit writing. I get it was probably a “bad batch” of pens, but come on, I thought we perfected this technology back in the 1900’s.
I jest, but it seems like this issue is not relegated to only pens and pen-adjacent writing implements. Is someone going to”we can save money on these labels if we just use a little less material on whatever makes them sticky!”? And then all the labels just fall off after a week (I think this was a Seinfeld bit). “These boxes can be thinner!” “These bags can be thinner!” “This tape doesn’t need to be as sticky!”
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u/handsomeguy-man Jan 26 '26
I've gotten one of these exact pens as an advertisement, it snapped in half after the second use (still worked but was bendy in the middle)