The prefix of Cheap is not used in the context of the work quality of the fountain pens- the ideal association in this case is that of Fountain pens that is made out of cheaper raw materials and is hence less price effective and are sold for lower prices. People of the economic households have often shown a preference for these and the reason for the same is founded in the fact that ink and fountain pens of the special and more recognized orders are normally extremely costly and are well above the reach of the better part of the society. Better quality pens come with the essential need for better quality inks, which are mostly very costly and unnecessary according to the budgetary constraints of the economic householder. Pens have been considered as great gifts from time immemorial and people of the normal orders and the common rounds feel that pens are indeed great gif items and this opinion has lived on till the present times.

But spending a few big bills on a small packaged pen is not the idea of a perfect gift in the opinion of most people. Cheaper pens are mostly of a poor service quality but are neat imitations of the pens of the costlier stratum and for the reason are extremely viable as gift options to people who are out to make a good impression without wanting to spend too much money. In any case pens are used too frequently and require frequent caring and this is not the idea of a pen in the eyes of most people and they prefer to have something will be cheap and easily replicable if it should chance to break. Cheaper pens are never sent down for servicing and people normally look at buying new ones whenever there is the slightest of defaults in its running. In some rare cases cheap fountain pens work as well as costly branded ones and for the reason find many takers. Cheap or costly, the life of a pen for the better part of it depends on the way in which it is used.