Forget Afghanistan, Lybia and the Middle East. What in the world is going on in the pathetic dry-erase pen manufacturing world?
The 'dry-erase' marker market! A mouthful? Well cop this! Did they invent that term because of the fact that there is no ink in them - or were they being ironic about their supply of quality product? The Writing Is On The Wall - Badly!
If the pen is supposed to be mightier than the sword then I'm about to become history. Exploitation of artists was supposed to have been eradicated years ago. I should grow up and stop being so naïve.
Q: Why have the world's manufacturers of dry erase markers (whiteboard pens) gone stark raving mad and stopped making yellow? Indeed why have the same 'baboon-brained' manufacturers also stopped making decent pens - at all. I don't mean to insult baboons. They won't even speak to us about it. I can only assume they don't give a flying chisel-tip about any of this.
The perfect pen was this.
(Paper Mate or EXPO – now owned by Sanford – all owned now - by Newell Rubbermaid.)
I could hold them in my hands all day. They were rubberized, shaped correctly and grippable. Each one had an eraser on it. They were well built and initially had excellent ink coverage.
Now they have stopped making them. The supply chain dried up along with their remaining pens. They choose to leave us stuck with badly designed equipment, low quality ink, ugly and painful to hold pens - cheaply made unhelpful and crass rubbish that is unfit for the task! We buy boxes of them that just don't work, they are already dry straight out of the box. We are suckered.
I know why.
This is the main tool of my trade so I would be pissed wouldn't I - but it's become an analog for so much tack out there in the world. To me this is the pursuit of profit at all cost. It is the standard cynical abuse by manufacturers in any market when they gain a monopoly.
I've written before about the typical lousy state of meeting room tackle - that’s why I take all my own. The countless badly abused flip charts that are wobbling their way to their graves, shocking and rubbish markers with no ink - products that everyone hates. Countless pens get thrown to the floor by irritated executives who can't get the lid off or on - and when they do they don't work. All of this bollox is contributing to low standards of execution and worse it is ultimately resulting in squalid thinking.
Well WTF!!!
Do something you lousy, lazy, cheapskate, userous dry-erase manufacturing bastards!
Can anyone point me to a quality chisel-tip dry-erase marker with a spectrum of colors (including yellow) that I can call a professional product and that I can actually buy during my lifetime?
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