spent good money on a Visconti only to have the magnetic band to fall off, which means the cap doesn't close now! Will never buy from them again, I'm staying with pens which have a screw closing on the cap!

Omg, thank you sooooo much for this list! ❤ . I immediately went on Aliexpress and ordered one of every thing for less than $25. Lol. I can’t wait to see what I get!

I love ugly Christmas sweaters tho 🤣

Up to seven colors now (12/30) - black, dark blue, dark green, coffee, ivory, lime green, and wine. Some only with gold trim, some only with silver trim, some with both, and in fine and extra fine nib options. Just got my first - after adjusting the tines a bit, it's an amazing pen for $14.

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They cost even less on Ali Express, although delivery may take a while.

Agree, agree and agree. Love the x159's and really enjoy the Jinhao 80's.

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@Teh Psychedelic Definitely not "disposable" - they are solid and usable, and I have no doubt they could last a long time..

Get another 149. Do not buy this rubbish.

There is a real difference between a resin and "plastic". Yes, the term "resin" originated from tree saps that cured over time (like amber) but nowadays the term refers to any material that cures due to some chemical reaction (like acrylics) and cannot be changed after that (NB: ebonite is a cured rubber but not a plastic). So a pen made from a resin has to be made by turning from a solid rod. "Plastic" mostly refers to a material that can be heated and then moulded into any form (polystyrene, polycarbonate, ABS etc.). Injection moulding allows producing large numbers in a short time reducing production costs. So you have to check the description of a pen carefully. A resin pen always means more effort to produce it and it will most likely be more durable. But even some expensive pens are made by injection moulding like the transparent Platinum 3776 (which is still a very good pen). On the other hand, companies like PenBBS use acrylics (which is a resin) for most of their (rather inexpensive) beautiful pens.

There are many grades and many types of plastic, and saying that even high end pens are made from plastic is just silly. The 159 is not a copy of anything. That's like saying a Tonka truck is a copy of the real thing. The 159 has the basic shape of the 149, and that's it. It's made from incredibly cheap plastic, and there is a MAJOR difference between this cheap plastic crap and the resin used in quality pens. "A plastic" is a silly, silly statement, and you should actually do some real research before saying such things. The 159 is an eighty cent pen. Even with the inhumanly low wages the workers are paid, you can use quality materials and make a pen for eighty cents. Some of the Jinhao and other pens actually sell for fifty cents in China. Yeah, "just plastic". Cheap children's toys are also plastic, so is the plastic wrap you use in the kitchen. It's like building your house and the balcony out of balsa wood rather than southern pine and redwood because it's all just wood. The nib is even worse. It may be smooth, but big deal. It's still made of incredibly low-grade stainless steel, and the tipping is just as bad. The entire pen costs eighty cents to make, so how much do you suppose the nib cost? Of course, metal is all just metal, right? So the cheap, low-grade stainless steel used for the nib and tipping is just as just as the high-grade stainless steel and far harder, longer wearing tipping on quality pens. Plastic is plastic and metal is metal, so we really only need one type of each to do everything. It's one thing to own such a "pen", but it's something completely different when you try to compare it to the materials used in a high end pen. Like all such pens, the 159 is an incredibly cheap plastic. You can keep telling yourself this is a quality pen, and that it is somehow a 149 substitute, but you have to know better. It's just one more Jinhao pen that's shaped a little differently than the other crappy Jinhao pens. This is the main thing China does. Change the shape or size of the cheap plastic, and in this case put on a little larger cheap nib that will not last with steady use, and people think it's something new. It isn't.

I found the EF on eBay!

There are EFs on Ali express and EBay.

It would still be a perfect piece of cheap Chinese crap made from the cheapest materials availlable.

A 149 is costly because it's a real fountain pen made from very high quality materials, and not a cheap piece of plastic with a cheap, very low grade stainless steel nib.

I should add at this price point, some inconsistency is not the end of the world; it's much more annoying when more expensive pens exhibit obvious QC issues.