My most-used fountain pen is retractable. It's called the Namiki Vanishing Point. The Pilot Fermo and Pilot Decimo also retract. (Namiki and Pilot are differ

My most-used fountain pen is retractable. It's called the Namiki Vanishing Point. The Pilot Fermo and Pilot Decimo also retract. (Namiki and Pilot are different divisions of the same company.) Even a $100-$200 fountain pen is far more cost-effective than gel pens in the long run due to their longevity and how inexpensive bottled ink is. I actually kept track one year. I went through $418 in gel pens my first year of college. That's more than my four favorite pens and my entire ink collection combined, despite my penchant for exotic and limited edition inks. It would take me about five years to use up all these inks.