National Pen Company Reviews

1.3 Rating 194 Reviews
4 %
of reviewers recommend National Pen Company
1.3
Based on 194 reviews
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 21st December 2023
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 21st December 2023
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 21st December 2023
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 11th December 2022
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 29th October 2022
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 25th August 2022
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National Pen Company 1 star review on 11th May 2022
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Extremely dishonest and unethical company. I have been in the design and print business for 20 years and have never encountered anyone this unbelievably unprofessional in my entire life - who is incapable of taking final print ready files and then damaging them by changing client approved files. - Their designers will change your logos and fonts without your permission. - They will send you back incorrect phone numbers, addresses and website in proofs. - Their sales team will tell you their inventory is fully stocked while letting you pay the bill even though they are out of stock. - They will send you artwork proofs and then cancel the job because the "recommended" colors are not even available to be printed. - They will cancel you order and no one will contact you to inform that your items will not be delivered. - They will tell you a service rep will call you to solve all of these issues but no return emails or calls will be made. - If you are a freelancer and provide print materials, this company will likely cause you to lose your client who needs print materials. - BEWARE OF PENS.COM !! The craziest thing after spending thousands of dollars on a few initial jobs with them is the amount of time it took to try and solve everything... Any other company works with a simple spec and art file submission, then proof approval, production and shipping. That typically takes 2 emails and no less than 30 minutes spent, with the entire process taking roughly 2 weeks or so. I have spend 3 months and over 10 hours worth of email and calls to solve 1 single large order. Im baffled at this incompetence. If I can give any advice to others seeing this is never trust or work with this company! There is a reason they have probably the lowest company score / rating I have ever seen. *Edit: I have changed my 1 star rating to a 2, solely for the reason that my 5th sales rep (for the same job) was able to help me correctly get my job completed, printed and delivered. Shadena was extremely helpful and professional, making sure to stay on top of the production team to finalize this job after 2 months worth of back and forth. She deserves a raise... Or hopefully for her sake to move on to a better company.
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Posted 1 month ago
Let’s just say that the quality of the item is good, but as repeatedly stated, the customer service needs help. I placed an order for a variety of colors and received the extra fall colors as said variety. Now we are a foundation that uses these pens to get our name out into the public. green and orange, the ugliest colors, aren’t going to do. And do not make a variety. Emailed customer service to return the items and was told no. Now I refuse to pay the bill and the pens are sitting in the same box waiting for resolve
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Posted 3 months ago
I'm a writer and I write all my first drafts by hand. A writer needs the best tools to work with -- and the National Pen Company makes the best. Their pens are the John Deeres, the Ferraries, the Louisville Sluggers of ballpoints! BUT. Their website's online order CART sucks eggs. I ordered the Paragon model ballpoint with blue ink and multi-colored barrels. What I got instead was pens with black ink and silver barrels. And no backsies. A silver barreled pen is no good because you can't see my imprint, and black ink is no good for signing most legal documents. I'm now being billed for $100.81 for pens that I can't use and didn't order. Am NOT happy about this and need to be made whole. https://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-tale-of-22-cities-my-fabulous-new.html
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered pens for business function, they phoned wanting payment, returned call found out pens were shipped to totally wrong city and address and they had my pens and where going to ship them out but it’s already too late. A month later still haven’t gotten my pens and a email stating there was a delay in shipping could be another few weeks.
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Posted 1 year ago
I had two orders with National Pen Company. One was my company pen, which turned out the way I ordered and a notepad which was a disaster: 1. They sent and order different looking from the one I approved 2. Logo quality was not clear 3. Pads were damaged on top (looked like something hard pressed on it, not from shipping) Called them multiple times. (lots of time wasted) Opened several tickets, sent pictures multiple times as "proof" and they are still demanding payment even thought it was discussed we do not have to pay the the invoice. In the email they even threatened to send it to collection and they charging late fees on top?!?
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Posted 1 year ago
I placed two large orders for the exact same logo design submitted as a png file. One product was received exactly as I ordered it (300 water bottles with logo design on it). The other was for 525 pens with the same design, however when they edited the design for some reason they included my HOME ADDRESS on the pens! I called to complain and spoke with a rep who frequently placed me on hold for well over an hour only to tell me the best that they could do was offer a 10% discount on a new order. I asked to speak to her manager, she placed me on another lengthy hold. Only to then tell me the managers were not available and would call me back. As expected I've heard nothing from them. Will never order from them again.
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Posted 2 years ago
I ordered 500 of their soft touch Paragon pens about 4 years ago. We have used and given them away but noticed about 5 months ago that a lot of the pens were not writing properly. We ended up with about 250 pens that don't write so I guess after a few years the ink becomes bad. I called customer service and they said their warranty is good only for one year so there is nothing they could do (no credit, no ink refills, nothing). So my advise is do not order large quantities of their pens if you don't think you can use or give them away within one year - you may end up just throwing them away like we had to. I have pens from other companies that are 10 years old and work fine so this is definitely a quality issue.
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Posted 3 years ago
Misleading when it comes to price. They add 2 additional charges off to the side where you don't see it until the last minute. Pens are nice but poorly bagged and shipped. A lot of the pens were open which caused the ink to leak out onto the other pens. Spent 30 minutes wiping the brand new pens down. Couldn't get some completely clean.
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Posted 3 years ago
I had been a customer of National Pen for a number of years but due to COVID had to dissolve my company and was no longer trading. I contacted them by Email and Phone to inform them but to no avail. I have had several phone calls about my account but can’t seem to get through to them that I am no longer trading. What will it take for them to stop
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Posted 3 years ago
DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM, THEY USE LOST LEADERS & BAIT & SWITCH TO COST YOU MORE THAN THEIR ADVERTISED OFFERS. I ordered 350 Britefield Fairfield pens at .33 each on a clearance sale on 8/19/2020. The order was NEVER processed or shipped. When I called to see where my pen order was, I was told they were out of the pens. I asked how that was possible when my office mate ordered the same pens 2 weeks after I did and hers arrived 3 days ago. The customer service rep then said he was going to cancel my order because the pens were discontinued. Then he hung up on me. I had to talk with 2 more people at National Pen and the best they could do was substitute a different pen...at 6 cents/pen HIGHER cost. That doesn't sound like much but on 350 pens, that's $21.00! I finally convinced them to find a way to make the order cost only as much as the one they had failed to fulfill. Now I am waiting to see if they can get this order to me. I am only giving them 2 stars because Sophia in customer service (the 3rd person I talked to!) was able to get the net price to equal out by crediting me some off the shipping.
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Posted 3 years ago
Bought and paid for pens in mid June, notified July 3rd by random email the pens i bought and paid for were not in stock, the short, unprofessional email ended with "how would you like to proceed" Lol
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Posted 3 years ago
National Pen Company is rated 1.3 based on 194 reviews