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Originally Posted by ManDay
It's rather the combination of the pricing together with the enormous scientific break-through of devising material (do they still call it "felt"?) which wears off like rubber and is as brittle as glas at the same time. Which would be horrid enough by its own; the fact that the broken tips cannot be removed from the pen is just the icing on the cake.
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Sounds like graphite, but without leaving the black marks. Maybe they wanted the experience of using a pencil at the price of fountain pen nibs.
