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Works for what we needed

have ordered beforewould order again

I have always loved mead products and have been using for years

Great product. No issues. Great price too! When you have three kids going back to school its great to buy in bulk and then divide. Love it

The pages don't catch and they are the perfect length for notes/homework for one course per semester. I even have one dedicated to using for scratch paper in my math class that doesn't let me use a calculator.

I love the colors. I receive exactly 12 notebooks. However one of them came with pages, the front and back cover, it did not come with the little wire in the back to hold the pages with the front and back cover. No big deal, I can use it for brain storm school work. But be careful not everyone will except that. After that everything is perfect. Can't wait to use one of them tomorrow for class.

Great selection of colors. Very useful for highlighting textbooks. Good buy.

These are the perfect size and colors for highschool students....will keep this on my list for future reference!!

Excellent back to school products made to do what they are suppose to do excellent

Good quality will not let you down. Buying for my office for the next six month's inventory.

My favorite highlighters! I generally don't have a problem with bleeding, but I use notebook paper and basic white printing paper. As a college student I highlight a lot and these seem to be keeping up with me as I enter my third semester.

Bought for school and they are awesome! they get used and used all the time! it was a great purchase!

What can I say, they're notebooks. I won't say their great, but their not bad either. I would give them five stars, but due to the packaging a few of them got damaged. I'm still keeping them and I use them for school, but three of the notebook had annoying creases down the middle, so I just had to deal with that little annoyance.

Overall, good quality. Only annoying thing is accidental tear outs of pages.

These notebooks were exactly what I was looking for. Low cost, high quantity, perfect for taking notes.Have you ever waken up in the middle of the night covered in blood when a rush of memories hits your mind on the events from last night? This happens to be constantly but I always ended up forgetting as these memories disappear really quickly.However... enter Mead College Ruled Spiral Notebooks and our problem is solved! As soon as I wake up covered in blood, I know immediately to grab my notebook and get to writing. Taking my plume out and ink set, I start writing page after page of everything I can remember.

This product is decent, however, I was actually hoping for NON-PERFORATED pages. The site clearly states that these are non-perforated. Every other company that uses micro-perforation and now mead does. Why? The problem with perforation is that even if you don't intend to tear out the pages, over time, they tear anyway because they think everyone wants to do that. On the flip side, they are good regular notebooks, nothing fancy, which is what I like. They get the job done and the paper quality is pretty good, I just really wish they would go back to non-perforated versions. Please let me know if you know where to get those kind, that would be greatly appreciated.

their fine, spiral note books for the mssive note taker contractor.

The item arrived on time and was as expected. I think the price is a little expense. You can get this product in normal stores around back to school time for about half the cost.

It's a Christmas gift.

A good price for a large pack of highlighters, My children and I use them a lot.

No problems, easy to use.

Love these highlighters! I wish it came with one more purple though

Works as expected. Lots of choices and that is nice.

I've just about gone through a box of these, and they've done their job admirably. The ink applies evenly, dries fast, and the color is nice and sharp. My only gripe (and it's a minor one) is that each pen feel somewhat short-lived. As a grad student in the social sciences, I go through about 2-3 books-worth of reading a week, and it feels like each highlighter just barely makes it through the week... but then again at less than a buck per pen it's a great value regardless.

Pretty nice but wires bend easy making pages hard to turn.

Nohting to add.

Very cheap quality - somewhat waxy coating that makes it hard to transfer pencil if that's what you prefer to use. I prefer pen so it wasn't that bad for me. Work in a pinch but nothing to write home about, also wish they could have been 100 pages instead of 70. And, yes, in SEPTEMBER you can find the cheap notebooks with college ruling in stores for a better price, but in my experience finding them in the springtime is much harder.

This is a standard, nice quality notebook. The only issue that I have is that the binding is very small, therefore the pages don't always flip fully or easily.

These are okay, but overprices compared to Office Depot brand equivalents. The reason for only 3 stars is that the lines on the pages are so faint to be almost invisible. I've put these aside after buying at Office Depot and will use them as backup/last resort.

I buy these for my boss, who specifically asks for UNPERFORATED notebooks, because he wants the pages to stay in the notebook forever. These have been the best for years, but the pack I just received ARE Perforated, with a little logo saying "NEAT SHEET(R) perforated pages". They have the same product code as the old ones, but now they are perforated like every other notebook in existence. My boss is going to be really unhappy.

useful

The purple highlighter was cracked and broken otherwise ok

After a month or so, the point of the marker tip falls off :/

They still smear.

I bought these because they were skinny and I can fit several of them into one pencil bag without taking up so much room. So far I've noticed that the yellow ones dry out very quickly, and the colored ones are starting to dry out as well. The package states that it doesn't smudge ink ("smear guard"), but it does smudge ink on printed paper.

The yellow is nice and bright, but I found the rest of the colors rather dark in comparison to my current blue, orange, pink, and green BIC brite liner (T) highlighters:BIC Brite Liner, Assorted Colors (5-Pack). It's a bit disappointing, but I'll live with my mistake for this round. They work fine.

The colors I received aren't the same as the ones in the picture, but the quality of the product is good.

The wire spiral is cheap, one of my notebooks came halfway bound with the rest of the wire sticking out dangerously. I guess there's no quality control? After using a few for school, I found the pages are longer past the spiral part than I'm comfortable with, this makes turning the pages hard and annoying. The pages basically bunch up when you're trying to turn them. It's a mess and I actively have to straighten them out and turn them with more care than normal. Annoying.

The purple highlighter has no color! The others work fine, though.

Here is a comparison of all the highlighters I have (what can I say, I love highlighters!), as well as my favorite brand for each color.Yellow: Staples Hyper & Faber Castell wins hands down. Super bright and fluorescent.Orange: Zebra Zazzle and Staedtler Textsurfer (w/ the liquid ink barrel). Exactly the bright orange I love. Not too dark, not too light. Staples Hyper comes very close!Salmon: Not many highlighters come in this color, but of the 3 that I do have, I like Stabilos. Slightly darker than Staedtler, but not as dark as Zazzle.Pink: they all look the same to me. No favoritePurple: they all look the same to me. No favoriteBlue: they all look the same to me. No favoriteDark Green: Stabilo wins for being light but yet bright enough to stand out on paper. Staedtler’s is a bit dull color, and Zazzles look too darkLime Green: Definitely Faber Castell. The perfect bright lime green color that I wish all green highlighters would look.Staedtler Textsurfer – I don’t know if it’s just my pack or it happens to all of them over time, but when I tested them out today, the colors look a bit faded and lighter than what I remember it to be. Just comparing this set of Textsurfer to the single liquid Staedtler Textsurfer orange I have, you will see the huge difference in the vibrancy. I do like the shape of these highlighters and how they feel on hand in general.Zebra Zazzle – liquid highlighter set that I brought over 10 years ago at Staples. Still works just as new today, though they haven’t gotten much use at all. I don’t really like liquid highlighters that much though because they tend to run out very quickly with regular use.Stabilo – the newest highlighter set I purchased just this past week and what compelled me to write this review. Very beautiful and vibrant colors. I don’t like the cap that much though because it takes some effort to pop the top off without any grip, especially when your hands are lotioned up.Staples Hyper! - Best Highlighter for the Cost. On sale during back to school season at 6 for a $1 and their colors are quite amazing as well. Their yellow and orange are one of my favs, and I also rated all brands’ pink, purple and blue equally. Green doesn’t look bad either when not compared to other brands. Why pay $11-$12 for other brands when you only need to spend $1. GREAT DEAL!Faber Castell – I love this brand and how the highlighter feels on hand. I rated yellow and green as my favorite. Orange would have been a favorite too if it worked normally; it is drying up and streaky when highlighting. This brand is impossible to get in the USA; and I had to order from international sellers. The first set I received, 2 of the 4 highlighters were dried up. The second set I received, it was ok when I received it, but upon testing it this week (I ordered this just a few months ago), it seems like the orange is starting to dry up as well. I can’t say if this is normal of all Faber Castell highlighters or I just brought from a bad seller.Sharpie Accent - Least Favorite Brand. Sorry. Their colors are darker and duller than all the other highlighter brands I own or tested. Even when not comparing with other brands on one page, their colors looked much darker like markers rather than highlighters. Unfortunately, this is also the only brand that my office orders, so I just use their yellow and then buy my own Staples Hyper! Highlighters for office use when I want to use other colors.BIC – also not really a fan, though I don’t dislike it as much as I dislike the sharpie accent. Doesn’t last very long.

Product description said 12 count, I only received 11. Color is not what I expected. The yellow starts off fine but, after 1 inch of marking on the paper, there is no color in the middle.

The tips break after 5-10 uses, poor stuff

I've ordered 12-pack and I received only 11. I guess someone does not know how to count.

A lot of them are kind of dry when I first use them, I wonder if they've been kept in the storage for too long

Very poor quality, paper is thin and flimsly. Paper cardstock covers.

These notebooks stop opening and closing properly within the first week of using them and they cost somewhere around $2 a piece when you can get them for less than one dollar at most places. Highly recommend making your way to the nearest CVS before buying these cheap pieces of garbage.

Not as specified in the picture. These only come in 3 different colors where as it shows 6. Teacher requires different colors, this shows 6, but comes as 3. Disappointed.

Very unhappy these were supposed to be non perforated that's what the description says but they are. Not what I wanted. Will not order again. Very unhappy.

not in good condition

Half of them were wide-rule.

Amazon calls these "fluorescent" BUT THEY ARE NOT! Just very pale and dull. And the F word is not used by Sharpie on the box nor the item. SHAME, Amazon...

This was absolutely not as advertised. The box had been opened and resealed with scotch tape. When I opened the box, there were only 11 highlighters inside.

Ordered box of 12. Came damages and had tape around the box. Box only contained ONE highlighter. Huge dissapppitment.

If you would like to receive 10 highlighters for the price of 12, buy this.

The box I received is not the same as pictured-- no clear band on the cap. I think that's the reason why the ones I got were not "fluorescent". I could not find the fluorescent ones anywhere so I bought this but it was a disappointment. I'm very particular about the color of my highlighters. The only good thing was it was cheap.

I ordered the box with one dozen markers. What I received was one(1) marker. Needless to say, I am not happy