BIC Glide Ultra Comfort Retractable Ballpoint Pens, Medium Point (1.0mm), Black, Assorted Barrel Colors, 1-Count Pack

I love this pen so much that the pen ran out of ink after three months and 22 days!
Before I start: if you appreciate a thicker, solid line from your pens, then you’ll prolly love this pen. If you prefer the finer, hair-like output of a fine-line pen, then close this window and keep looking. This line is 1.6mm, and you’ll prolly prefer a .7 pen instead.
Now onto the review:
I spent my life using BIC Crystal Stick medium-point pens as the thickness of the ink was perfect and they write so smoothly, but I recently accidentally picked up someone’s Atlantis Comfort pen and then rued the many decades I spent writing with THE most uncomfortable pen on planet Earth!
(If you’ve never used one, you won’t know that the Crystal Sticks are eight-sided hard plastic, and the corners cut into the soft flesh of your finger as you write. And if you’re agitated or energized while writing and holding the pen in a death grip? In just a few minutes, you’re in a good deal of pain.) (And if you write a lot, you develop a semi-permanent hump in that spot on your finger, too. Don’t write for awhile and the hump gradually goes away… until the next time you begin a writing binge.)
It never crossed my mind that I could have both smooth, perfect ink flow AND a comfortable pen in one … until I accidentally stole this one from someone needing my signature. The rubbery grip doesn’t cut into my flesh the way the Crystal Sticks do, but rather massages it like a well-paid physical therapist.
I gather this is the reason I ran out of ink as quickly as I did: when reaching into my pen cup (which is stuffed with a variety of pens and markers in different colors), this is the one I reached for most often.
I see people leaving very silly reviews about the color of the pen or of the ink because they don’t bother to read the details on the page which are provided so that they’ll know exactly what they’re getting. Because I read the details on pages which are provided so that I’ll know exactly what I’m getting, I have no such complaints (though even if I did, I’m not so petty as to whine about about it, revealing to the world my inability to read a product description).
This is the best pen I’ve ever used, and the budget price makes it that much nicer to use! I donated all my Crystal Sticks to the cancer treatment center up street; that was several dozen because every time I spotted a package with a dozen or two of the Crystal Sticks for an outrageously low sale price, I’d grab it, figuring I’d eventually have enough to last me for the rest of my life. (Im a disabled vet, and when I see really good deals, I snap em up as im crazy price-sensitive.) I’m back here now to order more of these Atlantis pens (and the Atlantis Velocity pens, too, which come in a wide range of pretty colors (like pink, green, purple, blue, and so on) and are just as nice but have a narrower barrel).
I can’t imagine that I’ll run into a nicer pen in this lifetime, and I’m perfectly comfortable with that fact, and this pen.

Good pen body/grip. Cheap ball point refill
The grip of the pen is great; much better than most.
HOWEVER- the ink refill seems somewhat cheap. As to say it feels like a good pen with a cheap ballpoint insert.
I was hoping for a more ink-flow experience.
Hoping I can find a replacement refill to fit the pen body.

Comfortable grip!
Everything about the pen is great. However, I do make lots of mistakes since my hands shake from nerve damage. I always use whiteout and when I rewrite over the whiteout the ink does a poor job. FYI, the whiteout is also a BIC brand.

Buy it!
Very comfortable and I mean very comfortable to write with if you have to write a lot even if you have to write a little… I love this pen. I keep getting them every month just so I don’t run out ever again.

I was doing an exam recently and these pens were a life savour in prepping for it and also the 3 hours writing during it. One thing to note is that you can get refills for these which I didn’t realise until I had purchased quite a few (I had a fear they would run out in the exam room. They didn’t)

This pen is the best utensil for someone that needs to use a pen daily. It’s my main tool at work, and I guard it a little too much. But I know it’s mine, and it gets a lot of hours of use. Probably last me about 2 years before the tips threads start becoming weak from replacing the ink over and over again. Love it.

I like the feel of the pen and the softness of the grip, but found that the ink clumped fairly soon after I started writing. It put my trust in the pen lower than my original joy at how it felt.