The packaging of the spare pins is gigantic and already impressive material waste. In the huge packaging no more than a small paper packaging for the five pins inserted. Unfortunately, I can not see any benefit for the red mine until today, but whatever. What has me very impressed, was to determine the refill after only 30 sheets of paper was all! The original mine had at least graduated more than 250 pages. As the second mine then gave up the ghost also to about 40 pages, it was clear that this was no exception. Smart Pulsepen I appreciate very much, and have this day in use. These replacement pins are a rather embarrassing sales campaign. It's worth it to go with the original mine in a stationery store and for much smaller money to buy matching mines that do their job flawlessly in the pen.