Today's Workaround

This guy will tell you how to get a Mont Blanc pen on the cheap, and while I won't argue with his results, I will question whether he ''gets it.''  I ''invested'' in  Mont Blanc pens several years ago, but not for the writing experience.  I figured that when handing a client the pen to sign a 6 figure contract, that pen ought to smack of quality.  The reason I bought more than one is because my Airedale dog ate two of them, at $125 per. The first time I bit the bullet and bought a new one.  The second time hurt.  I wrote the Mont Blanc company, enclosed a picture of the chewed up pen, and they sent me back a parts list. It cost me just around $30 for a new barrel, gold band, and Mont Blank white thingy that went on the end.  What else was there?  Just the ink cartridge, gold front piece, and maybe something else.  I could buy a whole pen, ala carte, for around $45.  So I did.  Everybody got Mont Blanc pens that Christmas.  Real ones.