Does anyone else ever think like this ? ... A Plea to the Pen Kit Industry
I am continually amazed at the lengths we have to go to to make something - as fundamentally simple as a pen - function satisfactorily after paying $10 or so for the pieces that are advertised to do the job. . It is like this is the stone age of design and manufacturing expertise.
Tonight, at a surplus store, I bought an unused, sealed box of 50 plastic-bodied ballpoint pens for $5 ... the sort of pens that insurance agents give away by the handful along with their yearly calendars ... sold as surplus for $0.10 each. . These are click pens and they function perfectly. . The springs in them, which seem to be identical to the springs we get in the click pen kits that we buy, are fully worth the price.
And here we are explaining methods to beef up the click mechanism in the Stratus and Vertex pen kits !
Something is quite wrong, it seems to me.
Those two pen kits are sold to us as kits to make, break and complain about.
The Artisan Clicker pen kit, and its "identical twin", the Dayacom Longwood Click pen kit, is unsatisfactory because it is clunky, rough to operate, and noisy, not to mention ugly.
Come on, you click pen kit designers, manufacturers, and marketers, wherever you are .... listen to us, your customers, and improve your products !