Another fountain pen thread

[Quick Orange]

I'm looking to get a decent fountain pen on the cheap. The aim is to get a classy writing instrument that will look good and help me improve my handwriting for little money.

On the extreme end, I've seen the Pilot Varsity online- is it any good? I like the idea of a $2 pen to get me started. I've surfed a few of the pen sites suggested on here like pen trace, but I don't know what I'm looking at. There are sites that talk about tuning the nibs, etc...I want to be able to open this thing up and start writing, not wondering whether my nib is good or other such flimflam.

If anyone has a good pen they'd like to sell, by all means, let me know. I'd rather buy from someone on here anyway.