Pelikan Souveran M800 Burnt Orange Fountain Pen

Chartpak is Pelikan USA, i.e. the official distributor here, so they are the ones who enforce the price. There are conflicting reports on whether this price gouging is done with the official endorsement on the part of Pelikan Gmbh or it's Chartpak's own initiative.

Thanks for the education! You know your Pelikans. I see the distinction between special and limited editions, although I submit that if a special edition keeps being manufactured, at some point it becomes part of the regular product line and not special. Regarding Chartpak, are you saying that they are not an official Pelikan distributor, but rather get all their pens from dealers? Because if they are an official distributor for Pelikan then, of course, Pelikan certainly can control price gouging. Anyway, it sounds cheaper to fly to Frankfurt to buy my next Pelikan. Thanks again!

Chartpak and its dealers are marking up Pelikans more than 100% over what you'd pay overseas, so there is no deception here, but rather an unjustifiable price gouging by Chartpak and its dealers in the USA. We live in a global economy and it's consumers choice where they want to buy their goods. Chartpak is just the US distributor, and Pelikan Gmbh can't restrict their dealers in Europe from selling to whoever they want because THAT would be illegal in Europe. As for special editions - these are not the same as limited editions you're confusing them with.