Sublimation Pens

[John G]

Not really sure whether these would take off - cannot see anyone buying a pen with such a small print area for that price.

[dj_doubler]

I was thinking the same thing... you would have to sell for £9.99 or something like that... would be a nice gift but you can get engraved ones alot cheaper :0)

[bms]

I think you'd need to sell a lot higher than £9.99!

[Paul]

It's a flipping pen! who pay this money to get a pen?? and be honest it does not look like one of the parker pen

btw... I got some shoe laces in stock. made of 100% polyester so suitable for sublimation. will give them away for 14.99 per pair incl p&p.


sorry guys! could not resist

[dj_doubler]

ill stick to my BIC pens :-p

[JSR]

Price is an issue and this is the main area of contention! The price we have online won't be any lower on volume and the price may increase by 10p - 20p on low volume and then come down to the price online for packs of these. Unless the buy price comes down considerably then this is the price going forward.

Have you been given any reason why they cost so much? Or is it just your supplier thinking we're dumb enough to pay any price they ask? (Like certain other products.)

The selling price for these is going to have to be at least £19.99 and, at that price, I'd probably sell 2 a year. I hardly sell anything at that price.

I believe there is a market for small-run printed pens because there are plenty of small clubs and things that don't want to be paying £250 for 100 single-colour screen printed pens when they only need a half-dozen. But they're not going to pay £20 per pen.

This looks like yet another good product that's going to end up like all the other good ideas - priced out of the market. And that's a shame because, at the right price, it'd sell - but we'd need to be able to sell them at less than a fiver, which means buying them in at less than £2.

I can't believe that it costs the original manufacturer that much money to make them. They're not making individual ones. If you can buy a pack of 10 BIC pens for a quid, then it can't be costing them so much to churn out a million unprinted blank pens. One of these shouldn't be costing us the price of 50x BICs.

I hope they provide wheels for this ride they're taking us on.

Anyone wanting a personalised pen is going to spend £1 on this one - http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/.- ... AP-PEN.htm - and print to paper. No wasteage for a poor print. They're not going to be paying us £20 for a printed pen.

[purpledragon]

ahh but fairs fairs the pen is running windows 1.1 with optional spell checker as optional (thats if you can glue a little rubber on the end)

[Matt Quinn]

It's a flipping pen! who pay this money to get a pen?? and be honest it does not look like one of the parker pen

found the perfect pen for you Paul...

http://www.penshop.co.uk/default/limite ... n-pen.html

...This one definitely isn't a Parker either!

There is a bloke called Alan Koo runing a company called Yi Cheng...

http://www.chinapenking.com/p1.htm

They had some nice original designs that seem to use similar resin construction to the fake MontBlancs that were going around I'm NOT suggesting alan was involved in that side of things) But I'm pretty sure if anyone knows how to get a resin pen kit put together at a realistic price Alan does... Perhaps something with an aluminium barel with a polyester laquer?

[Jimbo]

If you want cheap pens with printed inserts have a look at intaprintuk.com