Is it me or are these the best ballpoint pens ever made?
Paper Mate ballpoint pens have been pretty much what I’ve used since late highschool. Unlike Bic pens they don’t dry out or leak. They also work until they are out of ink, which I can’t say for Bic pens either. Plus they are very inexpensive. Perhaps it’s because Paper Mate is in mostly just the pen, pencil and eraser business, whereas Bic makes pens, shaving blades and lighters; thus, Bic is used to making stuff that is just disposable and only gets a few uses. Whereas, Paper Mate knows how to make a pen that lasts. The only change they’ve made to this model of pen is the coloring. Instead of being white with the cap and tip colored the same as the ink, the full plastic casing is now the color of the ink.
Well I don’t know if your going to like this comment or not, but I recently purchased a 12 bag of what I thought was a dependable pen. Something I could count on when one was needed. Out of the 12 I bought half of them have gone in the garbage and I just checked the other half to see how many would write and out of 6 3 are not writing. What happened to the quality of your product, I’m 59 years old and I have been using your products for most of my life and I have never come across anything like this. I was searching for an apartment when I bought these pens, I needed something I KNEW would write, well this time I was very wrong.I know they’re not expensive and thats not the point. The point is where is the quality gone. These pens are white with a blue cap and an M written on them. I also have the blue pens with the blue caps and an I on them they are the best. I paid $2.99 at a corner store and all I get is 3 that work.Looking forward to hearing back from you
Thankyou
The papermate pen itself ,for as long as I can remember ,has been a questionable quality pen at best. I suppose to make BIC look good. But to keep on with the same poor quality is obsurd. I was using the papermate EAGLE pen and the thing leaked and then dried up. The entire box performed just about the same way. Please if you have any pull in the pen industry– Get Papermate to up the quality and make a respectable back up pen we can be proud of. Enough is enough in making BIC look good and besides they already have billions of dollars in sales. Thank YOU
I also used to be a fan of Papermate pens. But the quality has dropped considerably. About a year ago I bought a box of the “grip” style Write Bros. model. It was bad enough that, when you tried to take the top off, the body came off instead, leaving the tip and the grip part in the cap. But this also led to a depressing discovery: The pens now come from the factory only about half full of ink. Sad.