I bought my Parker Frontier off eBay with a bunch of other Pens but i would buy it full price as it is such a good quality writing instrument. it is made of good quality plastic with a stainless steel cap. it writes nice and smoothly using Parker quink but i use diamine soft mint in a parker converter. it writes quite smoothly apart from occasional skips but it is still good quality. Overall a good quality pen. other alternatives include the lamy safari and parker metropolitan.