Americas Pen Collection

After looking for some time for a store like this in my area, I was thrilled to find America’s Pen Collection! True, you have to know it’s there to go in and up to the 7^th floor, but once there, the selection is extensive, and the gentleman behind the counter is happy to work with you to show you a full range of fine writing instruments and all the accessories for said instruments you could need.
That store has a new regular. :-)

They seem to have a wide variety of brands. The pens are scattered around the cramped store, which makes it hard to compare between pens. The lighting was bad too. The display pens also do not have any ink in them, so it was not an easy process to try out a pen.
The sales guy was polite but wasn’t listening to what I was asking for and to my price range. I told him the pen was a gift for my boss, a middle age man, and I wanted something in the $ 200 range from either Pelikan, Waterman or Cross. I specifically told him I was looking for something professional and clean, after which he would show me some avant-​guard design way above my price range. I asked him to show me the Watermans but he took me to the Dunhills and Auroras. Finally I just ignored him, went over to the Cross case, pointed to the rose-​gold Apogee and asked if he had a pure gold, silver gold or black gold version. He said no and then tried to sell me the rose-​gold one. Seriously, rose-​gold for my male boss? Can you look past the sales commission and listen to me? What a waste of time.
I ended up getting a better quality Waterman pen in my price range at Joons.