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Old 20 October 2017, 05:54 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by tamiya View Post
No idea on all this unnecessarily co-branded goods... not something I'd go to MontBlanc boutique to buy. same with their toilette water & travel goods & leather goods.

Was hanging around boutique earlier in the year when some lady rushed in, she asked staff if they sold suspenders. No? How about a shoehorn? No. hmm ok...

Nice pens. Nice ink. Everything else, nah.
I went Gray market on the deepest discount I could find. It looks to be a nice piece of kit short of OTF knife. Honestly it was the nicest looking letter opener I could find independent of it being a Montblanc item. I just don't get the sell to upcharge if paying retail at a boutique. They don't really tell you much of anything about it. I had to dig for a week just to find that the wood inlay was glossy. Gloss inlay is what sold me. I like to know why I'm paying what I am for things. Even if they're fluffing my pillow a little. This one I kind of ignored that since it looks nice to me and the price was not completely insane.
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