Parker Jotter Waterloo Blue CT Ballpoint Pen, Blister pack

I'm surprised at how much I really love this little pen. I was annoyed with the shelf pens at the store. For one, I prefer a thinner pen over a thicker one, and two, I hate how all the pens have the huge rubber grips. While the grips aren't uncomfortable, they cause allot of problems with pen holders in notebooks etc... makes the holders rather useless. This is the perfect size. The stainless steel pen is simple, elegant, and tough-which may be the most important part. This pen has been wonderful to use. While the ink cartridge that came with this pen was great and writes extremely smoothly and evenly, I replaced with the PARKER QUINK Ballpoint Pen Gel Ink Refills and am SUPER happy with it. I just prefer gel ink. As a side note: the gel ink drys extremely fast. I haven't had one smudge, and my hands run back all over what I write pretty rapidly. Yet not one smudge. Finally a pen that's simple, writes well, and is sturdy enough to deal with me beating it up all day. Totally worth the price in my book. Once I have a favorite pen, I tend to keep them around until they finally kick the bucket. This will last through many ink refills.

Parker Jotter is one of my all time favourite pens. Good weight and slim barrel makes it comfortable to hold and write with. Reasonable price is also a plus.

Does feel very light, making it feel cheaper. Person commented below saying that they received a plastic body pen but the item in the photo is what I received too and can confirm it is metal, not plastic (the plastic body jotters have a silver nib at the bottom). That said, can't fault them for thinking it's plastic as it doesn't look like metal. This also comes in hangsell packaging, which is listed in the description, not a box if anyone was planning on gifting and hoping for that. Definitely not worth it for full price. I bought at almost half the price and I still wouldn't really recommend since the chrome trim apparently comes off after a while.

It used to be that Parker jotters could be found everywhere, stationary stores, drug stores, college campus stores and the like. No they have all but disappeared from these locations. Sad. Those of us who still write and take a lot of notes have been stuck with the cheap plastic junk that has found its way in the market. They have to be sold a dozen at a time as that is only about a weeks worth. Yes there are a few fantastic pens if you are willing shell out a lot of cash. The Parkers are not quite the same as forty years ago. The plastic barrels can bend and the threads can strip. Overall today's are still better than most others. Great news is that Parker now has a full range of pens with metal barrels and caps. In addition to bright steel, the metal barrel come in dozen different. I need two for my work, blue and red. These are going to last. Priced from $7.00 to about $20.00, you can beat this pen.

Quality is better than mabe by Luxor India.