Prismacolor Col Erase Erasable 12 Count 20516 Reviews Summary

Quality of Material

Pros:

• "High quality product, extremely affordable."
• "The wood shafts hold up when sharpened."
• "These colored pencils use a softer lead, and doesn't break as easily as others."
• "They are highly pigmented, smooth to color with, and easy to blend."
• "They still have the rich, smooth colors Prismacolor is known for, and they lay down nicely."
• "They have all the quality and pigmentation of a regular prismacolor pencil - though not as soft or rich in application, as you would expect from a pencil meant to erase."
• "These pencils are great for sketching and light marks erase without a trace, especially if you use a high quality eraser."

Cons:

• "The wood is cheap quality and the lead is subpar, too."
• "The amount of breakage these leads have is inexcusable."
• "They are waxy, don't move well on the paper and won't sharpen much at all... impossible to get a decent point on with any sharpener."
• "The wood snaps very easily no matter which pencil sharpener you use."
• "The wood used in these pencils is very cheap. It has an extremely rough texture to it and splintered and cracked while I was sharpening them."
• "The wood is difficult to sharpen and the leads break easily."
• "The colour coating on the pencils are similar to some cheap Chinese pencils."

Erasability

Pros:

• "I love how I can erase my mistakes and your art will be perfect every time."
• "Love these pencils, they erase easy and don't smudge or smear as much as normal pencils, they don't break when being sharpened either!"
• "They do erase completely; the trick is that you have to use the eraser on the pencil."
• "They do erase almost entirely enough that the faint color showing isn't bothersome."
• "They erase just like normal pencils and with a normal eraser."
• "They erase well, except for the darker colors, which can be difficult."
• "They erase beautifully and the colors are quite rich."

Cons:

• "Does not erase completely."
• "The pigments just don't erase much at all."
• "They're erasable, but they still leave a trace of pigment behind that is similar to light sketches with the pencil which interferes with my work."
• "They do not erase completely, only about 50%."
• "Even if I write very lightly they still only erase about 80%."
• "They do not feel comfortable in my hand while coloring. My right hand began to hurt."
• "The color isn’t vibrant - very muted waxy colors - but I guess that’s because they are erasable - but they don’t even erase that well."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "They are very nice to use when sketching to add some color and pop do it."
• "Package came within a day very fast shipping."
• "They were perfect and exactly as described!"
• "Super happy with these definitely recommend getting these."
• "Price terrific."
• "You get a lot of colors for the price though!"
• "I paid just over $10 for these, and you just cannot beat that value."

Cons:

• "They're not too expensive, but still not worth it."
• "When I bought mine they were a little pricey to me...but worth it."
• "Also, they quite overpriced as they can be found for $10 in the U.S."
• "Seems expensive for such cheap finish."
• "They are a ripoff."
• "Not paying 9 dollars when these are worse than the 97 cent ones we buy every year."
• "I am still disappointed for the price I paid."

Shipping and Packaging

Pros:

• "Package came within a day very fast shipping."
• "Fast shipping, not too pigmented that my marker picks up color as it goes over the pencil and smudges all over the place."
• "Shipping came fast and all were in order, even though one had an adhesive on it which was easy to remove with some rubbing alcohol."

Cons:

• "The pencils came in a completely different box to what was in the item."
• "I was unhappy with the blue box it came in, very flimsy and a handful of the pencils spilled out in the Amazon box, but were not broken."
• "It comes in a cardboard box that is quite flimsy and ripped easy on me."