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I ordered a 74 set of Gelly Roll Pens from Blick. My Michaels order I placed a few days after came before theirs. Once it arrived, the plastic box only had 2 pieces of masking tape sealing them shut, instead of being completely sealed with plastic shrink wrap. All of the pens did not have the typical plastic cover/dipping on the nibs to prevent leakage. This to me says used, especially since the sets I have bought in the "blister"/cardboard packaging always have this protective coating (you remove it after you uncap your pen, to use it). I called Sakura of America based in CA and they said they send these out with the protective nib cover like with the blister pacs and these are shrinkwrapoed when sent out. I called after getting the pens... the lady I talked to was not the friendliest and said a new shipment would be sent out. I recieved it today, about 5 days later... this time the label on the box states "please shrink wrap before sending"... seriously? That was not my point, or my request... opening the box what the did was put 1.5 inch wound stripping of shrink wrap around tne to and back of the box... nevermind the sides... not protected there at least either. Same thing... inky tips, and two pieces of making tape covering the flaps to keep the case closed. I called again and explained... the woman began stating it wasnt their fault and that they cant expect each and every pen, raising her voice, stating i could return both sets and they would send me some valued customer coupon... and send another set. I told her i didnt want another set and while i could have ordered from Amazon and recieved better customer service, that i would keep the first set, return the other, and due to this whole experience would not be using or recommending Blick to anyone I know in the future (since the second rep was practically yelling at me, my kid turned and looked at me while i was on the phone because he could hear her yelling from the other side of the sofa)... she said she didnt know how else to help me, and was transferring me to her lead. 3-4 minutes later, the lead gets on the phone, nicer tone, but nothing she could do either, same old "we cant control the quality" or "we can send another set" junk... I didnt even want to be tranferred to this woman, I just wanted to be done... but stayed on in hopes that this woman might understand the point and further research this conflict of information between the manufacturer and the warehouse... but no... and now I wont get a "valued" customer coupon either... haha, whatever. Well, they have my money for these pens, but will not get anymore of it again in the future. Ill stick with the places ai normally spend money with, that care about their customers, where I wont get yelled at for reporting an issue with a 70-90 dollar product.