Parker IM Ballpoint Pen, Brushed Metal with Medium Point Black Ink Refill (1975559)

all good

Well I absolutely loved this pen, it was easy to hold, comfortable in the hand and like all Parker pens I've used in the past, top quality.However a bit of advice to anyone looking to buy one, don't waste your money on buying the refills, because the original ink outlasted the pen.After having the pen for a year, I had a special moment, that made me feel like James Bond.Picture the scene - I'm in a meeting with a client, we're chatting away and making small talk before we get down to business. It's time to start taking some notes, I raise the pen above my right shoulder and click the top to reveal the nib and the entire end fires across the table and hits the client.You expect me to talk.... no Mr Bond, I expect you to die... of laughter.

Ordered pen which clearly states medium point black ink and it arrives with a blue refill. I now have to order two black refills at half the price of the pen. Doesn't anybody realise that a lots of documentation has to be written in black ink!!! It's bloody annoying. If I'd wanted blue I would have ordered BLUE. Sorry for rant. Ordered two different pens at same time BOTH BLACK ink and both arrive with blue ink. And I do not jest the colour of the pen is more gun metal grey than dark espresso!!! Not my day. JAP

Bought Warehouse Deal as I had not tried plastic before. I had a chiselled metal one (for blue/black ink) and wanted something more substantial as desk pen (black ink) as my old Parker "Frontier" was showing its age (springs go in the end).IT'S A FRACKING PEN!Yes, quite a good one, not flashy but functional and perfectly happy with generic refills (I AM mean at times).

BEWARE! I was sold a counterfeit Parker pen from the amazon seller AbbeyShake.Fake parkers are pretty easy to spot - this one was missing the "parker" inscription around the bottom soccer/chrome cuff. It was very light, rattles and had a dodgy parker refill.I feel sorry for parker, a lot of people are commenting on how their quality has gone down but they actually bought a pen from Knock Off Nig.Avoid and ask for a refund if you've ended up with one!

This is the third one of these I have had, previous two found new homes after leaving them unattended on my desk which only goes to show other people like them too. I have arthritis in my hands but this pen is easy and comfortable to hold. Keeping this one attached to a lanyard around my neck to stop it leaving home.