Walky
Post-Delivery FeedbackAug 6, 2026
I had received from a gentleman who was over 85 years old a fairly large box of different kits- pen kits and kits for spoons and measuring cups etc. None of the kits I received had the bushings that would go with the kits. On 7/28 I ordered 7 sets of bushings to go with the kits. I have ordered thousands of dollars of items from Penn State industires before but had never ordered a bushing for the designer pen kits. What I didn't know is that you have multiple different types of designer pen kits. The one I happened to order was not the correct one. A I said- I had never ordered before and I didn't know that I was supposed to order the PKMONT-NT vs. the PPMONT. I turned the pen kit accordint to the directions, and being the wrong middle bushing, obviously the clip end of the middle part of the pen was not correct, and I therefore had a very proud center. I thought I possibly made a mistake and used the wrong side of cernter bushing. The gentleman who gave me the kits gave me two different pen blanks, and ask if I would make him two pens out of tll the stuff he gave me. Since the clip end was ruined I have a Woodcraft close to me, so I went there to see if by chance they had the same color and type of blank. Lucky for me they did. Since the tip of the pen was OK, I just had to re-do the clip end. I lined up the pen using what was I thought the right part of the bushing and turned to that again. Again it was wrong, because the bushing was wrong. So I got my caliper and measured what the instruction said it was suppoed to be, and saw that obviously I had the wrong bushing. It was after hours so I called into the office the next morning, and was routed to the guy who dealt with that sort of thing. It was only then that I was told that there was multiple kits with the same "Designer Pen" name, but only then did I find out that I hade inadvertantly ordered the wrong kit. I realized that the mistake was mine, but felt that the guy I was talking to was very down-grading, and really made me feel like an ass that I didn't know these things. After a few minutes of him berating me I told him to just let me talk to the sales person so I could order the right kit. When the sales person got on the phone, I explained what had happened, and she also made me feel like a complete ass. I had had it up to here (pointing to the top of my head) and basically hung up on her, and had not ordered the bushing set. I used my calipers to turn the portion the way it was supposed to be, and it fits nicely. I was VERY disappointed in the way I was treated. I ran my own business for 47 years, that I dealt with a product that I dispensed that didn't work out right etc. The correct response to anyone, and especially to someone who had been a good client for years would be not to downgrade them, even if it was ultimately their fault. (In my business, as a veterinarian, 99% of the time it was because the product was being used by the client). The correct response should've been, "Hey, sorry that happened, we'll send out another bushing- no charge." But that doesn't look like that's the way your business model says to do things. Look up my record and see the thousands of dollars I stuff I have purchased from you. In a small handfull of times, there has been part of apen kit missing etc. and you replaced only that part of the kit. Which is fine, but I'm guessing that averaged one time every year or two. If my business does't mean that much to you, let me know. There are other places to go.
Clarence Sitzman