Paper Mate Flair Medium Tip Felt Porous Pens, 12 Black Pens (2901152)

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Item model number: 2901152

By : Paper Mate
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Has a fast drying ink that prevents smearing when writing. Great for left-handed writers! Provides bold vivid lines and ink color. PAP29011 PAP-29011 041540290117 4154029011

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Paper Mate Flair Medium Tip Felt Porous Pens, 12 Black Pens (2901152)
Not the pen pictured on the box, and inferior to those sold in the past as "Paper Mate Flair . . ."
The only thing that is the same is the top cover (black, with white plus sign on top). The rest of the pen is of a flimsier plastic and the ink is not as thick as the prior pens (producing a tinier script). I only ordered one box, and I had to throw away two of the pens because the tips had disintegrated before I had written a single word. My impression is that the others are not going to last very long, either.
Follow-up: I wound up throwing most of the pens away in a few days (two tips disintegrated at first touch, the ink on two or three dried up within an hour, another dried up the next day because I failed to put the cap back on, and perhaps only one or two lasted more than a few days.
If you are looking for the old Paper Mate Flair Tip Felt pens (a favorite of mine for many years), don't bother with this one.
I went to Staples to buy them. They are much more expensive, but they work. A blister of 4 is about $7. There was a space for a box of a dozen for about $15, but it was out of stock and no longer listed in the Staples catalog. I then found a box of a dozen on the Staples web page for $18/dozen, and bought 3 boxes. They are the real thing and work.
However, I now see that there is an alternative listing for these pens on the Amazon page, PAP8430152, at a price of $13.11 per dozen, obviously the best bargain IF they are the real Flair pen. Am afraid to try. If you do decide to buy from Amazon, try this alternate listing, not the one on this page. Would like to hear from other users as to their experience with this other pen.

I've been using Flairs for over 30 YEARS for my private teaching. Clean dark lines. They are perfect, but they are water based ink and while they don't bleed through pages, even when the ink is dry, you don't want to get it wet or it will run! Not a major problem as I've been using them for 30+ years.