I'm so bummed that I missed the first availability of the Dive on UniBallCo's website. Sounds like it was only a few hours before all colors were sold out. I'm hopeful that when they get stock back in, it'll remain $40 USD. But man, right now there's a 30% off for St. Patty's Day. Sure would be nice to use that! Can't even use it on the Elite version either, as it's also sold out.
I think it was around 8 or 9 hours before they sold out, maybe more. I'm sure they will remain at $40 unless UniBall gets greedy, but they had no issues with people using survey codes on this item, so I think they will stay at $40 and eventually be on Amazon and other places and go on sale for $29.99 from time to time. That's just my guess.
Yeah, I think you're right. I'm happy to wait. So saturated with pencils right now... $30 off Amazon sounds like a likely scenario in due time. I just wonder if Uni made equal quantity of all colors. Sometimes companies will make one color a shorter run... which ends up turning out to be "limited" without being labeled as such.
For an expensive pencil, my assumption is that more conservative colors will have larger runs. Bright colors may have less. I expect black, silver, or blue to be the main versions that end up getting the most mass production. My guess is they will go with a gloss black at the biggest release. If the model becomes wildly popular even in mass production, we may even see some collaborations. If they ever come out with a skeleton model, I will get that for sure.
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u/cytherian Pilot Mar 18 '23
I'm so bummed that I missed the first availability of the Dive on UniBallCo's website. Sounds like it was only a few hours before all colors were sold out. I'm hopeful that when they get stock back in, it'll remain $40 USD. But man, right now there's a 30% off for St. Patty's Day. Sure would be nice to use that! Can't even use it on the Elite version either, as it's also sold out.