It does what it needs to, albeit poorly, for a handful of cents per pen. Once you start viewing them as disposable instead of trying to keep them until they’re out of ink, it makes more sense.
These are the pens put out where they’re going to get lost or taken, pocketed by the general public. I’d say their biggest flaw is that they don’t work on hard surfaces, so they suck for signing receipts on counters.
About the only thing they are good for is carbon copy paper. You have to press hard to make it work, and better pens tend not to like being pressed hard.
It’s also a use case that’s almost dead. Writing checks is a rarity, and most people only come across the odd contract like that once every few years, at best.
It is broke though. Thing is shit. Dries up the nib, smudges, spurts. All round bad design
And yet people still buy them.
It does what it needs to, albeit poorly, for a handful of cents per pen. Once you start viewing them as disposable instead of trying to keep them until they’re out of ink, it makes more sense.
These are the pens put out where they’re going to get lost or taken, pocketed by the general public. I’d say their biggest flaw is that they don’t work on hard surfaces, so they suck for signing receipts on counters.
About the only thing they are good for is carbon copy paper. You have to press hard to make it work, and better pens tend not to like being pressed hard.
It’s also a use case that’s almost dead. Writing checks is a rarity, and most people only come across the odd contract like that once every few years, at best.
The nub drying is the no. 1 Problem with the thing. The amount of pens thrown away due to that problem is probably uncountable.