Bought a $35 journal at a shop in Portland and the paper bleeds through everything

Last month I was in Portland for a weekend trip and stopped by this fancy stationery store downtown. I got suckered into buying this 'premium' dotted journal for $35 because the cover looked nice and the sales girl said the paper was 120gsm. But man, even my Pilot G2 pen bleeds through to the next page, and don't even get me started on highlighters. Has anyone else had luck with that store or did I just get a bad batch?

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elliotw376d ago

Ugh that's the worst. 120gsm is a straight up lie if a G2 bleeds. Sounds like they care more about the aesthetic than actual function. I'd go back and complain, that's not a bad batch, that's a bad product. Total waste of $35.

kaimiller6d ago

Honestly, $35 for a journal that bleeds is rough but it's just paper. I've used cheap notebooks that worked fine and expensive ones that ghosted like crazy. Sometimes you just get a dud. It's not like the pages are falling out, you can probably still use the other side of the sheet.