Worst pen ever: Ancora

Just bought an Ancora Gioconda. Not a very good looking pen. But the
worst thing: the nib is a POS. Uneven ink flow, sometimes just dumps
it all out. This pen is a rip-off. Wish I had checked this group
first, before buying this piece of crap!

COUNTERPOINT:

I have an Ancora "vesuvio". I think it's a GORGEOUS pen. When I first got
the pen it wrote a bit scratchy. I sent it to the manufacturer for
adjustment and now it's one of the top 5 smoothest writing fountain pens I
own (out of over 250). It never dumps ink and I love it.

Chuck Kalus


"Xiaoding" wrote in message
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Just bought an Ancora Gioconda. Not a very good looking pen. But the
worst thing: the nib is a POS. Uneven ink flow, sometimes just dumps
it all out. This pen is a rip-off. Wish I had checked this group
first, before buying this piece of crap!

On Tue, 16 May 2006 06:19:10 -0700, Xiaoding
wrote:

Just bought an Ancora Gioconda. Not a very good looking pen. But the
worst thing: the nib is a POS. Uneven ink flow, sometimes just dumps
it all out. This pen is a rip-off. Wish I had checked this group
first, before buying this piece of crap!

Take it back! Make them repair it!
If it's not a good looking pen, well, you probably should have looked at
it before you bought it. But if it's not working right, that can be fixed.

If you didn't buy it new, you can still pay a pen repair person to make it
work properly. You don't have to throw it in the drawer and never use it..