By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Alberta_Glamerheim]Alberta Glamerheim

The manufacturers of fountain pens apparently have not seen such an increase in sales since the year Lewis Waterman made the 3 key inventions that allowed the mass-production of quality writing instruments. With ballpoint and rollerball pens reported to be killing the market for fountain pens and with technology, represented by email and cell-phones,  expected to greatly reduce handwriting as an activity…  something totally unexpected happened – and changed the writing instruments world.

I believe this can be explained by several factors.

First, writing is one thing that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, as many of us were taught at school. No technology can replace the art of writing and diminish the value of habit. Spell-checkers in Word make us rely on automatic scripts which, as we all know, cannot guess our thoughts. You never can trust a spell-checker to make your article grammatically correct, and human reviewing is always necessary, be it a term paper, an agreement, or some internal company policy. Typing involves making more errors than writing with a pen, that’s for sure.

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Second, email serves for conveying information, and not empathy. Writing involves much of an emotional component, changing the style, pressure on the paper, and handwriting. A hand-written letter tells the reader a lot about the writer, while typed email is a pure text lacking soul.

Finally, fountain pens are a tradition – and this is something we badly need in the unstable world. We all lack connections with the past. Gadgets we use lack the spirit, lack humanity, and are considered as devices only. You can’t really express your personality, your attitude towards assets and values with an iPod, which is just about in everyone’s pocket.
So fountain pens have seen the second birth, so to say. Enthusiasts started the wave, collectors supported it, and then ordinary white-collars joined the craze.

So why do you need a fountain pens?

Here’s a short list of reasons that might urge you to have a look at reviews of different brands.

1.    Fountain pens are easier to writer with than rollerbals and ballpoints. Thanks to construction and special mechanism, fountain pens do not need additional pressure on part of a writer. The ink literally flows onto the paper itself.

2.    If gold is the best investment of money, then fountain pens are sure to hold the spot among five most reliable investments. While cars are too huge to keep and normally drop in price quickly, fountain pens are often made in limited quantities. If you ever got a slight interest in Mont Blanc Limited Editions, then you might know that these fountain pens become rare too fast, and their price tag literally sky-rockets. If you buy a pen for $300, a couple of years later you can sell it for $500. Every broker will tell you that this ain’t that bad

3.    Fountain pens reflect personality thanks to all kinds of models, manufacturers, filling mechanisms, etc. The world of fountain pens probably is way more diverse than the world of computer games.

4.    If you care about you health, a fountain pen can help you. Yes! Doctors say that muscles involved in holding a fountain pen release tension on heart. Besides, people with some diseases like arthritis have difficulties in writing with ballpoints, but fountain pens help to alleviate the pain.

5.    Collecting fountain pens is a great hobby, many people find it to be a great fun. There are online communities with thousands of members enjoying communication and sharing experience, posting reviews, solving repair troubles. Every year Pen Shows take place in cities all over the world, like those in Chicago and London. These are spectacular events where every fountain pen lover can look at and feel almost any pen displayed, and receive most accurate information about all aspects of collecting fountain pens.

So owning a fountain pens is something you might really enjoy for the rest of your life, and your children and grandchildren will have s chance to inherit the asset that never looses in price – your fountain pens.

Head over to www.Fountain-Pens-Site.blogspot.com reviews of fountain pens to choose the manufacturer and model that appeals to you heart. Or simply browse the educating articles to learn more about the pleasure related to owning fountain pens!

Alberta Glamerheim is a collector of fountain pens who writes about pen manufacturers, types of pens, shares her experience, gives advice on repair and maintenance of fountain pens, and unveils the truth behind ground-breaking innovations which make people literate writers.
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You Can Buy And Sell Everything Else On eBay But What About Real Estate?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Andrew_McNaught]Andrew McNaught

Buying and selling real estate at auction online may be a surprising idea, because most people want to see their home in person, but the amount of exposure that real estate gets over the Internet is every realtor’s dream.

Can you use eBay to market a home or business that you are selling? Yes, you most definitely can!

Realtors will find that eBay provides a popular selling place for everything from clothes to jewelry. It can also help to provide exposure to real estate that you are trying to sell. Another good point is that the advertising is relatively inexpensive when compared to other markets. There are other benefits, too.

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One of the greatest benefits of selling real estate on eBay is that you are marketing to the whole world and not just the local area where you live. One million potential buyers roam the maze of eBay from countries all over the world. eBay is also available 24/7 without a realtor having to explain the details and benefits of a particular real estate. All you do is point and click.

How To Advertise Your Real Estate on eBay Auctions

If you have a home or other real estate that you want to sell, you can list it on the eBay Real Estate site that is found at www.RealEstateAuctionsHQ.com You don’t have to sell it at auction. If you prefer a fixed price, you can have eBay list the real estate in much the same way as it would be advertised in the local paper.

There are three different selling formats that you can use on eBay’s Real Estate page. They are the auction format, fixed price selling format, and the traditional real estate listing format.

Once you determine which format you want to use, you then furnish additional details about the property that you are trying to sell. These details include property type, lot size, bedroom number, bathroom number, the year built, and any other details that a seller would be interested in. Next you will need to determine how long of a selling period that you need. You can choose from a 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, or even 30 day auction or a 30 or 90 day non-auction selling period.

There are fees for both listing the real estate and a final value fee that eBay Real Estate charges. For a 1, 3, 5, 7, or 10 day auction the listing fee is $100 and a 30 day auction is $150. For a non-auction listing a 30 day listing is $150 and a 90 day listing is $300. If you are selling a timeshare or land, then the fees are a little lower. Final value fees for land and timeshares is $35 and for homes or real estate there is not a final value fee that is levied.

The popularity of selling and buying real estate on eBay is increasing as the internet becomes popular in more countries. Of course nothing compares to seeing real estate in person, however, the exposure of real estate to prospective buyers on eBay is unparalleled.

Andrew McNaught is a successful webmaster and publisher of [http://www.real-estate-investor-world.info]Real Estate Investor World where you can find out more about the lucrative real estate business.

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