Bought it for my friend as a beginner pen, and he already loves it!

Having a blast with this little guy. writes very well for my old fingers. using it to test ink samples as well as writing in my journal.

Fantastic starter pen. Writes very smooth. It primed so quickly too!

This is my first fountain pen. I got the fine nib and it writes great! I’m using it as an eye dropper fill with a Platinum Preppy o-ring and Goulet silicone grease, with Noodler’s Heart of Darkness ink. 100% leak-free. I’m amazed by the Prefounte’s price to performance ratio. I’m hooked on fountain pen writing now and I use it for all my writing- even in my lab notebook in the R&D lab where I work. The Goulet Pen Co. shopping experience is excellent all around. I highly recommend them. Their videos are very helpful too.

Perfect starter pen

I like these pens and have a few which replaced preppys. I think they feel better in hand and I have more confidence that the plastic won’t break.

My first Sailor, and I am very pleased! I'd rank it among my favorite pens, so far. I've had it about 3 weeks at this point, and it writes smoothly and can keep up with my rather fast writing. It has some of the pencil-like feedback I'd read Sailor nibs have, and I don't mind that. I enjoy good nibs of a variety of types so am not strongly for or against feedback as long as the nib writes smoothly and reliably. This pen does not hard start or skip. It's attractive, and I'm looking forward to finding a brown ink to match the transparent brown body. Not top heavy when posted, even for my small hands.

Normally, I absolutely stand by the staing "you get what you pay for"... Assuming that quality comes at a higher price tag. But not with the Platinum Prefounte!! The older, more mature sibling of the Platinum Preppy. I LOVE THIS PEN. The red is a stunning deep ruby that reminds me of old time Depression era ruby glassware. It doesnt try too hard woth the grip like others of this proce point. Its lightweight. And writes smoothly and evenly with Noodler's bullet proof ink loaded into. The converter. It fits in when using it at a corporate settings, but at a price point that isnt going to break my back-office-not-management-paygrade's bank account if the pen falls out of the pen loop, or my pocket, and gets lost.

I put my Platinum Prefounte <03F> up against my Waterman Graduate and Hemisphere, a Pilot Metropolitan, Sailor Lecoule, and yes, a Lamy 2000. I inked them with Iroshizuku ink, wrote a paragraph each and capped them and stood them nib up in a jar. Seven days later, I tried writing with them and the Platinum Prefounte was the only one that immediately started writing. Although the nib is pretty solid, this is my daily pocket pen. A well-made pen with an excellent price.

I bought 2 Prefounte pens from Goulet Pens. Awesome pen and always great service! Thank you so much!

I found the pen easy to hold and it writes smoothly. My only complaint is that it will occasionally stop writing in the middle of a word. Otherwise, I really enjoy it!

I bought one Prefounte and was very pleased with how it wrote. I order 2 more and a Plaisir. 2 out of the three stopped writing after day 2. This will be my last Platinum purchase. I plan to move back to Pilot, which have always been dependable for me.

enjoy using pen. medium point writes very dry.

Converted to an eyedropper. It holds a lot of ink which is great for grading exams. Used Noodler's Fox in the Crimson Prefounte for grading and I love it. Nib is good especially for the price.

Great! For an inexpensive pen it delivers like a more expensive one. Now mind you, my most expensive pen to date was only $200.00 but this is a great every day pen!

I purchased two of these, actually four now, because I liked the fine point eye dropper Preppy. But I wanted better quality. These do the trick. Very useful.A little warning: I had to wash the feeds and nibs before they quit drying up after a line of text. Now they flow well.

I purchased 4 Platinium Prefounte Fountain pens with medium nib. I also purchased o-rings and silicone grease so I could turn them eyedroppers. I did not expect much since the price was $10 per pen. However, the fountain pens turned out to very smooth, quite beautiful and very nice to write with. They write much better than some of my $50+ pens. I use them constantly and have I plan to buy fine nibs too. I have an impression that they have a better ink flow with Pilot ink than for example with Pelikan one. There are some differences in the thickness of the line between the pens although all are medium 0.5mm but that is not a problem for me.

I really like the Preppy. This one looks nicer but with the same great performance. I made mine an eye dropper and it's working great. I sketch on location all the time so using a less expensive pen is a good idea in case of dropping or loss.

Better than the preppy and it looks better

This fountain pen is attractive with vibrant color and it is joy to write with. Platinum's fountain pens are build with special cap that keeps the pen from drying, so the pen will be ready for you every time. In addition, the price is just right, you can have one for every journal you are currently using and you might be able to match the color too :) All in all, you will not go wrong with this fountain pen for your daily writer.

I am pleased with this pen. Unlike the Preppy, you can easily see you ink level through the barrel. I find the materials that make up the body and, cap of the pen to be suspect to any real long term use . However, the nib writes smoothly enough that I am considering purchasing the Fountain Pen plaisir made by this manufacturer. As, my only real concern with this pen model is the durability of the materials used to construct it.

I was impressed by the quality of the pen for its price. It is more sturdy than the Diplomat Magnum I purchased from Goulet and has a wonderfully smooth nib. Now, I've purchased 2 as I tend to favor a medium nib and noticed that the medium writes like a wet broad. So I also purchased a fine and it writes like I would expect of a medium. That said, I have no issue with either of them, just that I was a little surprised by the discrepancy.

Beautiful pen and good price. When it writes it does write well. But pen does need frequent shaking which is a bit much.

Excellent Pen, smooth Med nib

a fountain pen nerd, and I love this one - thank you !

Basically the same great pen as a Preppy but made a little nicer and totally worth the few extra bucks. Unfortunately, it really is just a Preppy and it doesn't appear that the upgraded the materials at all so mine developed a crack in the cap after a couple months... just like most of my Preppys. Easily fixed with a piece of packing tape but a bummer nonetheless.

Excellent pen for the money. Would buy again

Very surprised by this little pen. I purchased while it came with the converter. I also purchased the Night Sea (blue) one. Seriously, I have found the Platinum pens to have a great EF nIb.

Love it. Color is great,writes smoothly,Will soon convert to eye dropper mode.

The pen was only available in m when I purchased, and m is a bit wet, but a very smooth write. Also the section of the pen is a bit odd in design. When you fill it with a converter, you will likely end up with extra ink around the nib that's not quite in the pen. This is an easy fix. Just work the air out of the converter and the ink into it by twisting back and forth a few times. Once I learned how to fill it properly, it writes like a beauty.

This is a great pen. It is not expensive, it is very light, and I haven't had the ink dry out at all as fountain pens may do sometimes. I filled it with Monteverde Valentine Red, and it's now my reliable everyday-red-ink-pen.