Stay away from this pen !!!
929460
This pen will not fit properly , the tip is very rugged it is guaranteed to scratch your screen .. The tip is not replaceable like the original S pen ... If you're looking for a good S pen keep looking because this is not the one !!
4602838
At first I fell in love with these pens, I am a weird pen person so I was pretty excited. After a some time the pen began writing all wrong! The middle of whatever line I would write, would write lighter in the middle of the line (IDK how else to explain this, sorry). I purchased a 2-pack and the other pen began doing the same shortly after I began to use it. I even gave the Inkjoy pens that came out after a try (pack of 6 or so) and they were bad also. However, Papermate is not all bad...but I now stick to their classic 1.0 M pen that is like $1.50 a pack. They should place that ink stick in the Inkjoy pens or something!!!!
3150062
I have used fountain pens exclusively since 1957, when I was a seventh-grade student. I bought this Parker 5th Generation pen in all good faith that I was getting something new. What a rip-off. Total rip-off. Do not buy this, under any circumstances. Ink cartridges for this pen cost me $8 apiece. On April 27th I installed a new ink cartridge in this pen. This cartridge cost me $8. Since that date, I signed exactly 30 computer-printed checks and endorsed 10 of them since they were payable to me. I was unable to sign my 31st check since this $8 ink cartridge was dry. As for me, I will go back to using one of my traditional ink pens. Once all of my remaining horribly expensive ink cartridges are gone, I will throw my $190 Parker pen into the garbage and charge this up to having endured a terrible experience. Sadly, this might well not happened for several months since I have nine of these ink cartridges on hand which I bought for a total of $72 not including those other cartridges which went dry. Incidentally, I have seen those infamous ink cartridges offered for sale at Amazon.com for as much as $10 each. If Amazon.com had allowed me to award this pen a total of zero stars, that's exactly what it is worth. I should mention that my signature contains seven letters and my endorsement (including all letters and my first name) contains 11 characters. Seems to me that eight dollars is a mighty high price to pay for putting 330 cursive letters on a computer-generated expense check.
894971
Don't buy this pen!  It is fake and doesn't work like supposed to.  You have to push down really hard to make contact with screen, gets stuck in phone and the tip isn't genuine so you cannot replace it.
1728594
I wanted so much to like this pen, but it writes terribly. Ink transfer from the pen to paper looks like those ultra cheap transparent BIC pens that you pay a half cent for in bulk. Not only that, the pen is supposed to open to change out the ink cartridge. Mine doesn't open. Four people tried and then I tried the old standby of using pliers. It still won't open. Sorry, there's no way I can recommend this pen to anyone.
4955115
Originally, I had a Hemisphere pen with the black lacquer barrel and gold accents, which my wife received as a gift but never used. I loved the weight, solid feel, and quality of the pen, and it served me very well for as long as I had it. During a particularly busy and somewhat frantic week at work, I left that one on a counter or desk, and someone absconded with it. For my birthday, my thoughtful wife got me the stainless steel version, which I thought was an attractive looking writing piece.

Fast forward about 2 months. With any pen, I clip it between the second and third buttons of my work polo, with the barrel running between my undershirt and the polo. I noticed that it was snagging the fabric of my shirts, and, on closer inspection, discovered that there was a small chip out of the end of the pen barrel tip, where the business end pokes out (see pic). It did not appear to affect the performance of the retraction/extension, but the shirt snagging was a little annoying, and was causing small bits of damage to my shirts.

"No problem," I thought, "my old one had a lifetime warranty, I'm sure I can get this fixed!"

Whoops, nope - they changed the warranty period to five years some time between when my lost one was made, and this stainless one was made. No bother, though, I'm only a couple months in, so it shouldn't be an issue, right? Emailed the customer service, gave them the info of the pen, the nature of the problem, and even sent along some pictures of the pen tip. They emailed back with return instructions, and a label to ship the pen aaaaalll the way to France to fix it. Seemed crazy that they wouldn't have something state-side, but oh well. Packaged it up, sent it off, and waited.

A few weeks later, I get an email that says they're not going to cover the damage under the warranty, and if I wanted the pen fixed, I would need to pay $45 to replace the barrel. On a pen for which my wife paid a grand total of $55. Which is currently being sold for less than $30. Can I get a resounding, "h-e-double-hockey-sticks no"?? I asked them to ship it back to me unrepaired, and said that it would be the last Waterman pen that I would ever purchase, to which they replied with deafening silence.

Since I got it back, I put a small length of heat shrink tubing over the damaged end, and it slides in and out of my shirt with no issues now (and only looks a little bit weird). Once it breaks (or maybe when the current refill runs out), it's going in the trash. There are lots of companies out there that make reasonably priced, high quality writing instruments. Had these clowns actually done the right thing, I would have remained a loyal customer, probably for life. My first Hemisphere was a great pen, and withstood much more use and abuse than this one did. Adieu, imbciles.
4819447
Do a search for the pen issues - this tablet is known for failures in this area - looks to be a faulty cable.

Mine has had issues almost since day 1 with this, should have returned it when I still could.
3844965
Rcv'd this pen as a gift. While the outside of this pen is solid, the clicking mechanism is flimsy plastic. It broke in less than a year (with normal use). I expected more from a pen this expensive. I emailed the manufacturer (Retro51) (at their sales and service dept) for a replacement part. They ignored my request.  Apparently you need to send them an additional $10 (per their website) to fix a defective/poorly made product.
3611978
Avoid!! I thought I'd found the perfect inexpensive pen, as the first box I ordered was great, every single pen. I subsequently ordered three more boxes. There's hardly a pen in the bunch that works, and if it does it stops working within a few days use. The quality has gone from great to terrible, just junk really. I am throwing all the remaining pens away as they are not worth the terrific aggravation to pick up and find they're not working, again and again.
290421
Beware!!  I had this pen for about 3 months and somehow the ball came out of the point and the ink leaked out.  Unfortunately for me it was in my shirt pocket, and I was wearing a brand new L.L. Bean dress shirt and it ruined it.  There's $50 done the drain.
4096301
Writing with this pen is absolutely horrible. At first I was very excited with it, watching reviews and its features, but when I started to use, the precision definetly wasn't right. When you put the pen on the screen, depending if you are left or right handed, the drawing starts 0,2-0,3mm from the pen's point, to the left/right depending on the setup. And this happens if you have your iPad positioned in portrait mode. Things start to get odd if you try in landscape, because the point's lack of precision draws in a 0,2-0,3mm error from up/down. A total failure of project.

My writing isn't the same as in a paper, and the adds told me it would be. I can say the things get even worse if I try to write on the iPad with my hand as a support, because as screen moves by the natural movement, the unprecision gets crazy and it gets impossible to do it.

I can't say anything about the material, its stylish and simple, but it doesnt work as it should.

Please make a better stylus, this product definetly doesnt worth its price. I paid too high for a bad piece of technology.
2706693
A bargain price, a very poor quality pen-  lesson learned; cheap is cheap
3171205
Worst pen I have ever used sadly and I have used pens from the dollar store that work better then these they are very cheaply made and ink gives out then starts working again if writing at an angle my recommendation is to avoid these pens at all cost you can do much better than these pens
2511787
1.  I was not happy that I had to  buy an Ipad for this pen to work.
2.  pen functioned very nicely- functioned as described
3. pen stopped working after 8 days.  It doesn't sync with ipad.  I should have bee suspicious when the product was delivered in a beat up worn box from Amazon which makes me wonder if the product was actually new and not refurbished.
  I have a $169 paperweight sitting on my desk.  I am calling support.  Will update later.
4. Next time I will order direct from the company and not from amazon fulfillment.

Update 09.15.2017 - I have gone through 3 of these pens.  Great functionality but the device is cheap plastic and has a lifespan of a year before the barrel starts cracking due to stress.  Customer Service is DISGUSTING and worse since the latest takeover.
Problems with Pen:
1. keeps asking for a PIN
2. if you have notes, sync them and get them off the pen ASAP or when the pen stops working, you are in trouble.
3. never call customer service, even if you paid $200.0 for a pen.  Customer service STINKS!

Background- I have been using Livescribe pens for over 10 years.  You would think that would hold some weight with customer service.
606175
This thing is garbage, broke within a few weeks somewhere and now I'm down a $50 pen as a result.  Stay away if you actually move your surface from place to place so you don't have to learn this $50 lesson.
3491593
Scratchy noise...kills you

Inconsistent ink flow

if don't push wouldnt write

I cant even gift to anybody as they will curse me for trashing something I don't like.

If you like try Pilot v7 or Uniball.

Stay away ...100meter pole
3219843
I thought this pen was refillable. IT IS NOT! I would NOT buy this pen again! IT IS NOT WORTH THE MONEY!