Does anyone need a real expensive pen?

I write notes with a pen, but I have a friend that makes these, and I was blown away by how much they cost. I didn't think that anyone wrote anymore, let alone that there would be a market for these. Beautiful; yes, but look at the prices!

http://www.vermontpen.com/in_the_news

I wonder what they feel like in your hand. That would be the deciding factor. $30 is not so bad when you lose it on a roof.

The pen I carry with me cost $30. There is nothing like the feel of a good pen in your hand.

When we were in Hawaii I found a nice pen made out of Koa wood. That one cost me $40.

With the free shipping it almost seems like a bargain. Payment in full would be less than a downpayment on their dragon sculpture. If only they had an Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson pen I might be sorely tempted. Once that got nailed down the only thing left in my bucket list would be a team of six white horses. ;)

$7,000.00 for a pen? You could buy a small roof for that!

I'm a firm believer that we get to spend our money how ever we want, but I'm not impressed by that kind of excess.

Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog and that's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Think of all the families that have a family member with terminal cancer that could be helped by spreading around $12 million. All the seriously injured veterans whose families are going to struggle getting the things they need.

I have no respect for people like that or for anyone who would spend $7,000 on a pen.

Well they say the pen is mightier than the sword so it's probably a good idea to have the best one you can get your hands on just to be prepared. I'm saving my money for a Rolex because I think it will help me negotiate a better price on a yacht. There was a space age yacht here in port recently. It cost 300k to gas it up. I vaguely remember a movie where several poor guys pooled their money and bought a white tux so they could make a good impression with the young ladies in town when it was their turn to wear it. If we got enough people to buy in we could do a time-share on a pen. Shipping and insurance costs would mount up though.

I have the coffee cup and the mouse pad, come on Vickie, get us all a nice pen.

I'll stick with my Pilot G-2. Smooth, great feel nd it can write on napkin without going through. :)

I lost sunglasses every week until I bought some Oakley's. Now I always know where they are.

I suppose the same would hold true for a pen like that, but it's not a chance I'd be willing to take.

All I see when I look at that pen is a full month of food, shelter, schooling and medical care for 130+ kids at my brother's orphanage in Haiti. Don't look like it would taste very good.

Like Tinner, I'll stick to the G-2 that's 2 feet away on my desk at the moment.

I wonder what the resale on a pen like that is?

I did notice, it came with a 3 year warranty, and a solid slate display box.

I bet if you looked into the world of people that could (and would) pay $100k for an 8" dragon sculpture, over half would think Howard Dean is a moron. Why would you claim he inspired it and lose half your potential customers?

A couple of years back, I was at a jobsite of a longtime builder customer. I needed to go over a detail with him and he was finishing up talking with his customer. He had a beautiful wooden handmade box with him.

I commented on it and he opened it up and it was his display case for handmade pens made from exotic woods. I ribbed him a little about being surprised his eyesight was still good enough to do such precise work and he told me I could have any one of them I wanted.

I picked one that was beautiful rosewood and brass and---proceeded to put it on my pickup truck bed rail and then went over a detail with him. I didn't think of the pen again until I was halfway back to shop.

I pulled over on a busy road and quickly moved some tools and scoured the bed to see if the pen had rolled in. I didn't see it, so I drove back to the jobsite to see if it was in the road, I sure didn't want Ray to see the pen he gave me crushed in the road.

I carry an extra leather pouch in the back of my truck for new or temp employees to use. About four months later, a guy was using that pouch and asked me if I wanted the pen in the pouch, he said it looked like it used to be pretty nice. Weathering in winter in the back of a truck wasn't kind to that pen. The wood was no longer smooth and shiny, rust had seized the clicker and it no longer even wrote.

But I keep it in a pen jar in my shop office to remind me of two things, one is my friend Ray and the other is I can be stupid at times.

I've decided to clean out the the jars and cubby holes etc. where all my pens hide. 90% of them don't write anymore. The ink has dried up or run out. Funny thing about it is, I will pick a pen if it doesn't work I'm in the habit of putting it back in the jar or cubby hole. No more! I started throwing out the pens that don't work. I'm thinking there will be 1 or 2 pens left when finished. B) :) :) B) Deep Down In Florida Where The Sun Shines Damn Near Every Day

Well, here it is boys. It's all relative. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/penny-worth-dollar2-million-is-up-for-auction-in-baltimore/ar-BBiur2t?ocid=mailsignout

Here's the guy who bought it:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/penny-worth-2-million-auction-baltimore-article-1.2156678

As for pens, maybe I'll just make my great-grandmother's work for me. Kinda small, though.

http://www.rooferscoffeeshop.com/rcs/users/egg/Ruth-D.-fountain-pen-1913.jpg

Just need to get a bottle of ink. As a matter of fact, maybe the ticket is to get some quills and use a sharp knife to trim the tips. We've come a long, long, long way. Too long I would say. Even my typewriter is out of date.

We've gone from powder horns and adzes to cybertech, automatic weapons, crappy, boring, high-speed movies, and fast-food. Pretty sad when you stop to think about it. Penicillin and refrigeration were good. No going back.

If these had a GPS tracker, I might commit to payments of $3.99/month for the rest of my life. I hope to live a long time, so that could add up.

I guess if I could "write" well I would consider a $100.00 pen, but the truth is I chicken scratch and can hardly read my own writing so I would have no use for one. Now a $7,000.00 pen would be the definition of insanity to me. I don't care how much money one had! I am much more comfortable with a keyboard and a computer.

Hey, I do my share of slate roofing and I have a hammer that costs about $120.00. I would not spent $10,000.00 for a slate hammer though, and I can make money with one of them. I know the guy that makes them and I know he is a real artist with slate and copper, I still can't imagine the "value" there. I will have to visit him in Vermont and see what he does. I guess he is super busy, so there is a demand there.