AIBU to think I will never get a refill for my (£620) pen?

[MelanieD29]

I have a few pens that I use, one of my favourite being my Chopard Brescia. The pen still sells on Chopard's website, but I am finding it hard to source refills for it.

www.chopard.com/en-gb/rollerball-pen/95013-0439.html

I'm in a bit of a panic now as I installed my last cartridge for it today. It writes lovely, but worried as have ran out of refills for it now. I normally use a Parker Duofold or Cross Townsend for day-to-day use, and my Brescia normally only comes out when signing important things (quite sentimental!).

Does anyone have ideas as to where I can source refills for the Brescia? I can't seem to see them for sale on Chopard's own website, and Selfridges didn't have any in stock when I visited recently.

The tricky thing is that it's the Internet... A lot of communication is lost when posting online. Words only account for 7% of what is important when communicating. Tone of voice and body language account for the extra 93%. So on that basis, when tone and body language are removed, I personally believe that yes - posters have a duty to be compassionate and sensitive with their words, if they don't have the body language or tone of voice to back it up!

£4 for 10? Pffft. I get my work pens for 10 for 89p from Home Bargains. AND they've got a triangular barrel so they feel nice to hold. That's nearly SEVEN THOUSAND pens I could buy for what OP paid.

Mind you, I work in the NHS and all 7000 would still disappear within a week. 🤣

I don’t agree. As I said earlier, my finances are poor but I don’t go on style and beauty and knock the people posting about expensive coats and handbags, which they do, often. OP posted the price maybe to emphasise how important it is to get cartridges and not get a new pen or maybe because she wanted to, but so what? It’s a choice to be jealous and bitter about it. I choose not to be. I’d love to be able to spend money on something so fancy but I doubt it will ever be the case for me unless I won the lottery. But I don’t do the lottery as it’s too frivolous.
But we have people with millions posting on Mumsnet and they’re allowed to be able ask questions too and if they feel the financial points are important then that’s up to them, not for us to tell them they can’t because we can’t afford the things they can.

No one has mentioned them but my current faves are Toms studio pens. They come with different nibs and you can get different colour inks. They are between £40 and £80 and as a teacher I use them a lot.

Ellington pens are my new fountain pens I use when marking English books. When I am marking handwriting I have to make sure mine is pretty good!

I am not jealous or bitter.

I celebrate people who have far more than me both offline and online.

But I do think we can also operate in this life in a way that is conscious of others.

It's not saying someone can't talk about these things, but how they talk about them does matter.

We can agree to disagree on this.

We can, as I think she talked about just fine.

And how do we know it wasn't a gift. We don't. People making assumptions. It could have been won in a raffle for all we know. Who gives a damn?

i do wonder how some people get through their day. So much seething resentment, it's staggering.

I paid 750e for my puppy. I wish I had just bought a nice pen.

You’re of course free to act according to your own personal sense of duty, but that isn’t something anyone else needs to pay the slightest bit of attention to.

Not every conversation about a topic has to centre you, and especially not on a website that isn’t for the exclusive use of, or a ‘safe space’ for, those in financial difficulty.

You are free not to click on or engage with threads you find triggering. You don’t get to set ‘the tone’ on a message board that is open to all.

i say good for you op. I love a good pen.

ignore the pile on by those who had the opportunity to not rtt but did so anyway just to berate you.

And give more pleasure!

Well, that's what you get when you buy cheap tat @MelanieD29

I wouldn't spend less than £1000 on a pen.

I'd never be judgmental of anyone's handwriting.

The price of the pen didn't need to be mentioned just the make/name would do.

It's like when boastful people mention their car by brand name.....so bloody boring and never impress me.

Cars get you from A to B who cares how expensive they are.

People could Google the price anyway.

I know heaps of people with fancy pens, I don't see how it's any different from an expensive handbag or pair of heels or whatever.

In fact op has reminded me I need to stock up on refills for mine!

Exactly. I owned several eyewateringly expensive pens as a student. They were gifts from my dad who was really proud of me for overcoming some serious adversity. I still really treasure them now, as a reminder of him and also of everything I overcame.

Probably missing the point again but do the pen fans on here know you can get rollerball pens that take fountain pen cartridges or converters so you can use any colour ink? Blew my stationery-obsessed mind when I discovered them!

Then why didn't you?

I don't think the pen made the ops writing beautiful at all. The writing looked like they had to press quite hard, and the letters were cramped and tight. I would have expected something lre flowing.

I know that it's subjective, but these are nice.

You can use your fancy pen to write me a big cheque if you like op .

That’s Squat with a capital S.

In all seriousness though who is anyone to judge how others spend their money. Hair extensions, Botox, handbags, spa days. People spend on what’s important to them and it sounds like OP takes great pleasure from that pen.

The picture on the right has not been written by that pen. It’s fake.

Is your real name Pauline and are you from Royston Vasey?

Ya think?

It was just an example of what I think is nice writing

Each to their own but I couldn't pay 625 quid on a pen as it'd only get lost down the back of the sofa cushions like all the other pens 😭😁

You used a fake handwriting example to illustrate your unnecessary criticism of OPs handwriting?

Oh, right.