When they make pen’s that don’t write!
Posted on December 17, 2007
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You ever notice how poorly stuff is made these days? I mean even simple things, like a small plastic tube with an ink cartridge inside, are made so cheaply as to basically be worthless. Every single time, in the last 6 months, I have picked up an ink pen and went to write something. The ink pen does not even write!
I can remember the days when this would only happen to those old pens Those pens found in the trunk of a car after five or so years of 
being there. Yea! An old pen like that might need a little coursing first to make it write. But write it would! The pens were made of quality and to high standards and simply worked and they worked well. When I needed to write something on paper.. I could pick up that old trusty pen and every time, it wrote with out fail, a soft motion would make print and with out the least bit of hesitation. They used to make a mean pen. A pen that actually wrote and scribbling first was not required every time it was needed.. The pens made today! Would not write even one small vowel letter, if from the package more than a few days.
I started to think about this here pen.. This here pen that would not write. And asked myself, why do they even make pens? Why do I even own a pen? The stupid fucking pen will not even write and the pretty package it came in is all I have to show for! It shows me just what greed for the almighty dollar does to the quality of our fine goods. As time and technology progress, we learn to make things with more show than go. The products are made cheaper, with fewer real raw materials. Yet, the consumer pays the same price or more for basic goods that are considered necessary. Have you opened up a package of Hostess® cupcakes or Grandma’s® cookies lately, and noticed what’s inside? Inside the package, you will find a morsel that is half the size as once was? There used to be almost a small meal inside this package and now there is contained not much more than a bite.
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It’s called price-focus. I am happy there is a trend to look back and evaluate what we had. People start paying more in order to get soemthing “not made in china”. It will take some time,but there will be mroe harmony in this. Right now it seems: either very very price focussed, or very very expensive quality. No golden mean.
Gyte,
Yea, these big manufactures have figured that raising the price on an item would be sure to trigger “sticker shock” when consumers go to replenish their goods. So, instead of raising the price, the producer’s make products smaller and/or more cheaply. They doll up the package so as to be unsuspecting to the average user..
I totally agree with your point about how the market in everything has become so “price-focus” orientated and this has gone to far. There is no more happy medium.
When this become even more obvious to more people, hopefully more people will take notice and this trend of looking back at what once was will grow..
I would love to see a trend like that grow.. The quality of goods has gone so far out the window that it has become pathetic.
Thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it!
Ry
This reminds me of the book “Naked Economics” by Charles Wheelan in which he was describing such a trend. He gave an example of how back in the 70’s or earlier when Gas prices were regulated by government, the gas stations would have people nicely dressed up in those suits with the bow tie filling your gas. But now that prices comes into play, it’s self service with bad bathrooms just because they need to cut down on something.
The same can be said for Airlines. Horrible service = good price!
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yes, you are right … stuff just isn’t made with the same quality as it was in the good ol’ days …
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Indeed you are right about snack food portioning. We haven’t all increased our appetites (although that may still be true). The damn cookies are smaller.