Re: Hello, Goodbye: The Final Day of the Pear Tree Pen Company
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- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 12:38:54 +0000 (UTC)
Best luck with whatever comes next. Hope again that you don't give up on the
hobby aspect, even if the business is no longer a focus.
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From: "James Partridge" <James@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Zoss list" <pens@xxxxxxxx>, fptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:19:30 PM
Subject: Hello, Goodbye: The Final Day of the Pear Tree Pen Company
The message I’ve been putting off writing can wait no longer. Tonight at
midnight, The Pear Tree Pen Company as we know it will no longer exist.
I apologize in advance for waxing nostalgic. I had promised myself I wouldn’t
go down that road, and that I would remain upbeat. Yet, today I have an
unavoidable sense of melancholy, so I hope you will permit me this one final
indulgence.
These past 6 years have been a wonderful experience – often exhilarating,
sometimes frustrating, yet always rewarding. Many of you are not just my
customers – I’m proud that I’ve gotten to know a good deal of you well enough
that I consider you friends. Whether we’ve spoken on the telephone, exchanged
emails or even shared a drink somewhere along the way, it has been a privilege
to get to know you. I think it was this sense of community and friendship that
set the Pear Tree Pen Company apart from many of the other, often impersonal,
online retailers out there. We always strived to deliver personal service,
whether you were a Michigan or Iowa neighbor, or from a strange, far-off and
distant land (like New Jersey). We may not have always met our very high
standards, but I think we hit the mark far more often than we missed it. And I
have plenty of hand-written cards, letters and personal drawings from
thoughtful customers across the globe that bear witness to the relationships we
tried to foster. I will treasure those always.
Anyway, as I said, today is the last day the Pear Tree Pen Company will be open
for business on the Internet (for pen sales, at least – I still have a couple
of watches I’d like to sell). I wanted to remind everyone of clearance sale.
I’ve slashed prices on just about everything and removed the “buy 3”
restriction. So today’s deal is take 15% off of the lowest marked price on
anything in the “Special Deals” section of the website. Yesterday, we found a
whole bunch of Pilot Iroshizuku ink, and we posted that on the site, but I
don’t expect it last very long. There are a lots of other deals to be had, too:
we’ve got R & K ink for under $10 a bottle, Waterman bottled ink for only
$7.95, Rhodia pads for under $2 and even have some Sailor pens for less than a
buck! Of course, there’s more. Visit
http://www.peartreepens.com/Clearance-s/149.htm the clearance site to check it
out. But seriously, you have to be quick – the stuff is going quickly and the
sale ends tonight at Midnight central time.
Once again, thanks you to everyone who has written, called, posted on Facebook,
Twitter or any of the several pen fora I have visited. Your words of
encouragement have been universally supportive of the decision I’ve made and I
am very grateful to you for that.
Kindest regards,
James Partridge
The Pear Tree Pen Company
James Partridge
The Pear Tree Pen Company
www.PearTreePens.com
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