Black Ink Refill, Replaceable Ballpoint Pen Refills Compatible with Cross Ballpoint Pen, Medium Point Metal Refill 10 Pack

I first wrote the review following this one when I could not get the refills to advance fully in the pen. After reading a few reviews where they discussed the coating that was on the bottom of the refill so it wouldn't dry out, I inspected the refill again and found that the coating was on the bottom of the shaft as well. Once I scraped all of the coating off the shaft, the refill fit perfectly and wrote well.While these refills are supposed to be compatible with Cross pens, they are slightly shorter. The refill does extend out of the barrel, but only enough so that one needs to hold the pen virtually upright in order to write. Technically still usable.

The only issue which needs attention!! The cartridges come with a mini wax seal on the tips. If you do not recognize this, they either will not write or will smear if you do not remove all the wax. Lucky for me I have a Jeweler's loop and could see this very well since it does take a good eye to examine the tip. I can understand their concern for freshness, etc.. but the wax presence will anger other buyers if they do not know about it or cannot deal with it. I used my nail to remove the wax but I suppose you could place the tip in hot water to soften the wax? No instructions on how to deal with this is a lapse on the sellers part.

These are pen refills. They work. They fit my pen. I am not sure I can elaborate beyond this.

These refills work fine and certainly aren't expensive. However, I feel a little silly that I didn't notice that they have a tiny bit of wax(?) on their tips. I put a refill the pen and it didn't seem to fit. When I looked at the tip sticking out, it looked like it had gooey dirt on the end. When I took the refill out and looked more closely at the rest of the refills, I saw they all had a little bit on their tips. Some simple instructions would have helped. Once you take the wax off, they work fine.

These qrite so smoothly!

These cross style refills are some of the best. Nothing compares to an actual Cross refill, but these are a very close second. The ink flows very smoothly, and the writing doesn’t have streaks in it like some other refills. Very good for the price.

Smooth writing refill and it fit the pen I needed it for.

Refill pens not bad. Writing is not very smooth and the plastic top detaches very easily. Hopefully ink doesn’t leak out from the top. Overall I can’t complain cheap price cheap pens and they work.