Some time ago there was a rumor that Pilot would discontinue production of the S30. Today I have looked at Pilot’s mechanical pencils and noticed that the S30 is gone from the overview. You can search for the S30, but the link that is displayed leads to a page that no longer exists. As with the recently discontinued S5, I couldn’t find an announcement of the production stop for the S30.
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I don’t think Pilot makes a press release or announcement when a product is discontinued. In the case of the S30, it was ostensibly due to a malfunction or design failure to account for heavy pressure writing styles. So we only have those gossip tweets from better connected folk who may know an official retailer etc.
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A press release might have been unusual, but maybe they would have kept the pencil on the website but put a note like “While supplies last” (like Mitsubishi did in their catalog not too long ago).
Edit: From xhantos in r/sharppencils:
And from the same catalog:
The catalog is about a year old, so this is nothing new 
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