My expectations have the pins actually pretty well fulfilled. The smell is keeping within limits, they are high quality and also the box in the delivered pins served its purpose. Refilling the ink entstprechenden Staedtler has also been a non-issue. The tips are also quite hardy and do quite a bit with, here I had really been true disaster pins.
A star deduction giebts but because I (straight red) find the opacity of the marker bit too low. However, I must say that I also bought Edding whiteboard markers and are not hiding, apparently is a limit as reached here.
All in all, it makes sense here to turn back to a reinforced brand that seem to know what they are doing ^^