Montblanc(R) Refills, Rollerball, Medium Point, Blue, Pack Of 2

by Montblanc

Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006RVS9
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,299 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #25 in Office Products > Educational Supplies > Writing & Correction Supplies > Pens & Refills > Pen Refills
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 19, 2006

Product Description

EMAIL/CALL FOR UNPUBLISHED SALE PRICE! Genuine Montblanc writing instrument refills. World Lux is an AUTHORIZED MONTBLANC PEN DEALER. MANUFACTURERS WILL ONLY HONOR WARRANTIES ON PRODUCTS PURCHASED FROM AN AUTHORIZED DEALER. DON'T GET BURNED, BUY AUTHORIZED.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Drys out at the drop of a hat, August 11, 2008

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Andy Chen (Santa Rosa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Montblanc(R) Refills, Rollerball, Medium Point, Blue, Pack Of 2 (Office Product)

Have to agree with the previous reviewer. These Montblanc refills run out at the drop of a hat. I have both the black and blue versions and both of them have run out after 3 days or so of use. At first I thought it was just clogged with paper debris or an air bubble, but after several minutes of trying, the ink just will not flow again.

These refills come with a little plastic end cap on them. I think you might need to store the refills (even the ones you are using in a pen) with the caps on in order to stop this dry out problemm but that's a ridiculously impractical solution. You might as well buy a cheap ballpoint pen.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Writes well, but short lived., December 26, 2010

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T. Hughes "T. Hughes" (Historic Mobile, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Montblanc(R) Refills, Rollerball, Medium Point, Blue, Pack Of 2 (Office Product)

The reviews here are somewhat entertaining to read. The nature of all rollerballs (Mont Blanc included) is that they use more ink than a ballpoint and therefore won't last long, particularly if you do much writing. The medium points have even shorter lives than the fine points, again, because there is more ink used. That said, no other pen has the feel and smoothness of a Mont Blanc. I've used plastic rollerballs like a Pilot or Zebra that aren't long-lived either--they may last a little longer than the MB, but that's because the entire barrel of the pen can store ink. Also doesn't have the prized little "snow peak" on the end.

Genuine Mont Blanc refills are packaged with a hologram on the box. I can't speak to knock-offs, because I've never bought them. If the short life of a rollerball refill doesn't work for you, you may consider a ballpoint.

Bottom line is this: Complaining about buying a refill for a $400 pen is like buying a Mercedes and complaining about the cost of the service or the 93 octane fuel. If you want cheap, go get yourself a $0.99 Bic and write for 6 months...and drive a Kia while you're at it, not a BMW. You can't have champaign taste and a Busch Light pocketbook; that goes for cars AND pens. (And most everything else)

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low end refill- the perfect picture of a rip-off!, July 21, 2008

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Reverend Aaron "neo-renaissance multinerd" (The Zenith City: Duluth, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Montblanc(R) Refills, Rollerball, Medium Point, Blue, Pack Of 2 (Office Product)

Summary: If your MB refills suck, don't worry! It's how they are. Don't assume they're counterfeits- I think that's just brand mythology, at least in real retail outlets in the US. However, if you are willing to give them another go at less than full cost, call Mont Blanc and they should be able to arrange something. If not, take them back to the store from which you got them.

I'm a fountain pen guy, but everyone has to journey back to the dark side once and a while while filling out a form. For a long time, I'd just kept a Parker Jotter w/ a Parker Gel refill in my bag just in case, and it was serviceable, though it did suffer from running out very quickly as well as random dry outs that no amount of spit or hot water could bring it out of. That said, it worked- though you did end up wasting a bit of cash on the Parker brand. They make nice fountain pens, and made nicer ones in their hayday, but their Gel pens... meh. So, out looking for a new rollerball or gelpen to be my just-in-case pen I was convinced by a friend to try out a Mont Blanc. We went to a local pen shop and I tried out some of the higher end FPs- I'd only used some of the sub-$500 MB FPs; and in their world, that's cheap- as well as their ball pens. My friend spoke well of the MB rollerball refills- and the clerk, not surprisingly, raved about them. Neither actually used them, so I suspect a rather simple minded attachment to brand or image.

Much to the chagrin of the clerk, I decided to play it safe and just buy a pack of the MB refills, using some hackish engineering to shoe-horn the refill into a very secure screw-top Esterbrook that was quite nibless. At first, I was pretty pleased with myself- not only did I have what was supposed to be the finest writing refill on the planet (according to the clerk and MB), I managed to make it happen in a much classier pen than any modern MB could aspire to be.

In the end, the rollerball fared much worse than the medium-quality Parker Gel refills did. I don't know how often they run out- I never managed to get past 3 days before it dried out. The first one lasted two days, and in the second one I borrowed a friend's Starwalker Fineliner and had it go three days. To round out the experience, the refills suffered from chronic skipping that wasn't helped by all of the random suggestions I got.

I'd read a bunch about "counterfeit" refills, and in the interest of science got a MB rep's phone number from the pen shop- they sent out a new pack of 2 refills for a small fee, which is pretty lame but understandable. With these, I managed only 3 days again, with each refill being split into being used in the Estie and the MB to see if there was a difference.

In the end, MB makes a lot of over-priced plastic doo-hickeys. I'm sure it's a good way to buy some cred around the country club, but as far as writing utensils go they're pretty third tier. I didn't expect much from a rollerball refill in general, but for refills that cost $5 each I expected something quite a bit better than the Parker or generics I usually use. In fact, I got worse.

For the $12.50 I spent on the original refills and the S/H fee I paid later, I could've just bought a bottle of Noodler's Ink, or better yet, bought one of those fountain pen ink refillable rollerball pens and skipped over re-learning the lesson that "Mont Blanc is nothing but jewelry for dandies, not serious pens for people who write." Live and learn!