Promo Pen Collector

Now that’s a pen collection!

Jeffrey Caren M.D. collects promotional pens- thousands of them! According to a Cedars-Sinai interview, he mounted the collection of pens pharmaceutical reps gave him and now displays the impressive assortment in his office.

Here’s a little clip of the exchange:

“I call my collection “Some Kind of Persuasion.” It’s really meant to trivialize the process. In my mind, the encounter is reduced to a $1 pen.

Does it work?

No. Now they just bring me more pens.”

Part of me wants to laugh at the irony. They continue to bring more pens! But part of me is a little sad about his collection; do these pens really dictate what doctors decide to prescribe to us? Is the entire drug industry balanced on a budget writing utensil?

Still, I wonder if anyone ever gave him a bone pen or mortar and pestle shaped pen? Those are some of my favorites for medical companies (whether it’s right or wrong, the pens are still pretty darn cool!)

Recently, the gym I’ve been taking classes at was trying to figure out how to promote their new Basketball courts. They finally settled on promotional basketball pens and I love them!

For the last week I’ve been slowly stealing a pen a day from the reception desk. They have basketballs painted on the sides and the gym’s name around the middle. That way, when people like me take them home we’re still getting the word out. Every time I whip out my basketball pen at the office I get tons of questions about it (or in some cases, giggles) so it certainly gets attention.

It’d be a great gimmick for a kids sports team as well, I know I would’ve gone bonkers over a Volleyball pen in Middle School.

Here’s one that’s even cooler than the ones I’ve been collecting (and customizable!). For any sports fans out there, I found some other fun non-pen sports merchandise at Teamschwag.com.

As a connoisseur of the finer things, I appreciate the quality and craftsmanship of a solid promotional pen. They look good, are made of the finest materials, and work with your hand not against it. This reduces tension on your hands and wrists, and helps erase hand discomfort. Enjoy writing again, and indulge your inner writer with an sleek custom pen.

This collection of bic promotional pens, was taken from a whole bunch of casinos. I’m assuming these are the pens left in the hotel rooms so that you can fill out the guest surveys. If a casino were to give a client a pen as a gift I am sure they could find a much nicer pen, or some casino themed items to remind the customer of the place they stayed.

I remember the days when you used to get really cool prizes in your cereal box. There were no offer codes you had to collect and go online to claim your prize. No, you actually had to dig to the bottom of the cereal box and find your prize.

This vintage promotional pen from Post is definitely the kind of prize I’m thinking of. I mean, what kid wouldn’t want a glow-in-the-dark pen.

I have discussed floaty pens before. But I think this is the largest collection of floaty pens I have come across so far.

Here’s a cool Hulk Hogan promotional pen. Perfect for any Hulkamaniacs pen collection. This pen is pretty old school especially since the WWF, I mean WWE changed their logo awhile ago. I think it’s been like 6 years since the rebranding. But still it’s still a really cool pen.

To promote the soon to be released (Hopefully) Halo movie, at Comicon 2008, these really cool light up Halo Pens were being handed out. Comicon 2008, these really cool light up Halo Pens were being handed out. Light-up pens are really great for bringing attention to your promo. Plus they just look really cool!!

I saw this really cool Bic anniversary pen. Bic is certainly one of the most popular brand names in commercial pens. I thought that it was so cool that penhero.com had a Bic Silver Anniversary Pen. According to PenHero, Bic pens were the first pen that wasn’t a fountain pen. That’s kind of cool since the most popular pens to collect are Fountain Pens.

I have seen “floaty” pens in tons of tourist attraction, but never have I ever seen them used as a promotional product.

I like this one from Prudential

They wanted to give their customers a “Piece of the Rock,” with an actual rock floating in the pen. What a nifty idea! Perfect for any pen collection.

Of course this “floaty” pen,

from the 1964 World’s Fair is a really vintage pen that any pen collector (especially myself) would love to get his/her hands on.