Review: Not Worth The Extra Money Unless You HAVE To Have A Purple Stylus
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
The fact that THIS stylus has 4 stars has me completely baffled. I bought this one to match my Kindle case. I now go to one of Amazon's sellers, "The Friendly Swede" and bought a multi pack of something like 15 styluses in a virtual rainbow of colors for about the same price as one of these and they are still going strong (I have even given away some to friends).  Although I personally did not have trouble with the clip, the rubber tip came off rendering the stylus useless. For the price, I mistakenly expected this stylus to outlast the cheap ones. Boy was I wrong. I would suggest going through Amazon sellers for the cheaper stylus choices. I compared the new rubber tip on this one with a new rubber tip from the multi bundle from TFS and there was no really noticable difference. That is why I cannot, for the life of me, understand all the 5 stars ratings. Since I consider myself part of the middle class and I do not feel that the economy is good for anybody but the rich, so ergo the wealthiest of Americans are giving this stylus five stars because they don't have a problem blowing $15.00 for a stylus that does not last long. I agree with the reviewer who wrote of another type of tip on some stylus. I have purchased one of those (which was not as expensive as this one) which I can only describe as rubber tip with a mesh type substance over it. It seems to work well on my Kindle Fire 2 HD and my Kindle Fire HD 8.9" as well as my Kindle Paperwhite and seems to be holding up well. Another stylus I purchased through Amazon from The Friendly Swede,and there are 3 stylus with 3 changeable rubber tips and I believe you can buy more rubber tips (just a thought). I will not say that this Marware stylus does not work, only that it does not wear well enough to pay the price they are selling it for.