What was going to a be a review of the Pentel EnerGel .5 Purple is now going to be a small rant about quality. As you can see from the sample, I was not able to do a written review of this pen. You might ask why I did not ask Pentel to replace the pen, but these two EnerGel pens are the replacement pens that Pentel sent to me after the first one didn't work. So, while they tried to make the situation right, the replacement pens suffered the same condition as the original, and I guess I would have assumed, incorrectly, that the new ones might have been tested prior to being sent to me.
Perhaps it is just this model in the EnerGel line that doesn't work well, because I have never had a bad experience with any EnerGel pen. I very much appreciate Pentel's effort to fix the issue, but it seems like the end result was pretty much the same...