Anyone buy these "new manufacture" 1020 pens?

[ACML]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Set-4-pens-for-plotter-Sharp-EA-850-Casio-BP-1-Atari-Canon-and-others/163711252327?hash=item261df37767:m:mvx6mTJnw5Gz-j3N3gxZoqg

 

Saw this on eBay.  Says they are new manufacture.  I'd order from Best, but there is a good chance they will be dried up or 50-75% dried up.  Does anyone have any experience with these and how are they holding up?  The price is steep ($22) for a tube of four pens.

 

[_The Doctor__]

wow price is up and then add shipping!

 

here, you can buy 10 packs like this sort of stuff and still come out ahead...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Commodore-1520-pens-for-plotter/113881412673?hash=item1a83dc7441:g:XCEAAOSwmLdddSK7

 

although in some thread or another I posted new manufacturers and their links... they were close to 20 but multi packs.

Edited September 12, 2019 by _The Doctor__

[scitari]

8 hours ago, ACML said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Set-4-pens-for-plotter-Sharp-EA-850-Casio-BP-1-Atari-Canon-and-others/163711252327?hash=item261df37767:m:mvx6mTJnw5Gz-j3N3gxZoqg

 

Saw this on eBay.  Says they are new manufacture. 

 

 

I am not convinced these are indeed newly manufactured. Who makes them? Why isn't the brand mentioned? Why is it on eBay and not on a regular storefront? Very suspicious.

[+orpheuswaking]

2 hours ago, scitari said:

 

I am not convinced these are indeed newly manufactured. Who makes them? Why isn't the brand mentioned? Why is it on eBay and not on a regular storefront? Very suspicious.

Well I mean if you want to see them on a storefront you could go here

 

https://www.casio880.com/en/product/new-set-4-pens-color-or-black-for-plotter-sharp-ea-850c-ea-852c-ea-850b-casio-bp-1-bp-2-canon-commodore-atari-and-others/

 

Looks like a Spanish Casio dealer, I would hazard these really are new. 

[Bill Lange]

These pens are still used in some industry equipment such as EKG machines and such. I've read somewhere (maybe on Paul Rickards' blog: http://biosrhythm.com/?p=1395) that they are still manufactured in Europe in small lots. Expensive, but fresh.

 

 

[BillC]

22 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

wow price is up and then add shipping!

 

here, you can buy 10 packs like this sort of stuff and still come out ahead...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Commodore-1520-pens-for-plotter/113881412673?hash=item1a83dc7441:g:XCEAAOSwmLdddSK7

 

although in some thread or another I posted new manufacturers and their links... they were close to 20 but multi packs.

Those have TANDY(Radio Shack) packaging, I'm fairly certain those are vintage NOS just like the pens from Best.

Radio Shack had their own 4-pen color plotter based on the same ALPS mechanism,  the CGP-115, I have one given to me by my brother.

[_The Doctor__]

Yes, I consider the other machines commie, coco, and their peripherals/accessories parts for Atari stuff... it's also useful to get items that support such accessories and peripherals since many used the same supplies.

 

Of course it's NOS (new old stock) just look at the picture :)          but you can buy 10 to 20 packs for the price of 1 new pack when they pop up in quantity from time to time... some might not be up to par but it's almost always a big win to do so... still a major bargain.