DAVID L. MARTENS
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2024
AAAA battery was included, and it works fine!
Donald W Hlavaty
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2024
Exactly what I wanted, good as original. Worked out of the box and came with a new battery. Would definitely buy from this company again.
Mitchell Vaughn
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2024
Purchased a few months ago and finally got around to getting a AAAA battery, the pen worked fine the first day installed, but seemed to have died already. Installed a new battery and the pen no longer works.Avoid purchasing this for surface pros!
sarah emeid
Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2020
AMAZING
Claudia Perry
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020
I purchased my pen Used via an Amazon seller. It was the original Surface Pro 3 pen with the purple eraser butt and everything. It came with some minor cosmetic scratches, but otherwise it looked perfectly fine.What I was not pleased with, however, was that none of the batteries in the pen worked. Now I'm not saying the seller had to include the pen with all new working batteries, but I would have preferred if they had told me that the batteries included were dead. That way I would know that I needed to buy new ones. Without that information I couldn't tell if my pen was busted or just out of batteries.If it were the simple process of just throwing in a AAA battery then I wouldn't be so miffed about the whole thing. But both the AAAA battery that powers the pen and the two 319 coin batteries that power the Bluetooth connection were dead. Those aren't exactly batteries you find just anywhere. It would have been nice to know I should buy them in advance since hunting them down proved difficult and I didn't want to have to wait a few more days to wait for them to ship via Amazon.When I did finally get all the batteries replaced the pen worked perfectly and I've been very pleased with it. But in the future I'd like it if Used sellers of this pen were to be more detailed about whether they tested the pen before shipping it and whether the purchaser will need to have new batteries on hand to use it. Just shipping it with dead batteries and no other information just isn't acceptable when the batteries needed are this unique.I would have preferred if they had just shipped it with no batteries at all. At least then I'd know for sure I had to get new batteries to power it instead of wondering if the thing is busted altogether.
Customer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 9, 2017
Too expensive but blame Microsoft for that
Gerard O'donovan
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2017
Good product delivered on time - does exactly what it is meant to
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on December 23, 2017
Got this for my fiancee for her surface 3.She loves it!
Acompst
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016
I don't really understand how Microsoft can get away with making you buy the one thing that makes their Surface products worth buying. In my opinion the only reason to get a Surface over any number of the cheaper alternatives is because of this pen. As a student I find it useful to take notes and draw on PDFs using the built in software from Microsoft. The pen works flawlessly with them and does an amazing job at capturing my handwriting. The quality is pretty solid although the buttons are a little loose and rattle if tapped but not pressed. I really like using the pen as a mouse alternative since it is much more compact and slides neatly into a holder on the side of the keyboard. The pen has a great feature that allows you to hover it over the area of the screen that contains a drop down menu and it acts the same as a mouse would if you hover the cursor.
Ricardo Cazares
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2016
This pen works for the surface 3 as described, and just to clarify I mean the non pro. When this pen arrived I tested it out and it didn't work but that was because the aaaa battery it came with was drained. Some people have said this pen didn't work because it appeared as connected on their device and opened one note, but still didnt work. For people who don't know much about the surface pen, it is important to know that the pen has two separate battery compartments, one for Bluetooth connection(the part with the clip and "eraser" on top) and the rest of the pen which needs the aaaa battery. The top portion of the pen needs separate batteries which are coin cell batteries.
tae kwon-do black
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2016
The first pen I bought from Tech61 was defective. I brought it up to their attention and asked if I could just get a replacement it took them 2 days the first time to get back to me. The second time it took them about an hour to an hour in a half, however after they said they'd check their supplies it took them 2 more days to get back to at which time I emailed them to see what was happening. The second pen came and works perfectly however it make me wonder if they knew the first pen the sold to me was defective because it had the battery already in it, where as the replacement didn't and it also came with the instruction booklet.Other then that this pen is amazing, just make sure that you have a Best Buy around so that you can buy the AAAA batteries that it needs to run.
Anon
Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2015
Perfect replacement for the pen I lost - and promptly found again the day the new pen arrived! Oh well, now I have 2!