Moleskine 12 Month 2021 Monthly Planner

Just received. Was, at first, very pleased - great color (red), has all I need and nothing more, etc. BUT. Upon making my first few notes, I was discovered that ink shows through and, in places, bleeds through to the back of the page. The indent of the writing can be seen and felt. I used my standard inkjoy gel pen, a pen I’ve never known to cause such an issue on any paper/document. It’s a quick dry, non-saturating ink - not like a marker. I wasn’t pressing down hard. I can’t imagine what kind of writing implement to turn to in order to prevent what is written from showing through. I imagine even a dull pencil would appear on the backside. Holding a page from this book, a word or image that comes to mind is tissue paper. Less than ideal. This is to be the record of my 2021? Moleskine has such a good reputation and sizable following, so I never expected to encounter an issue of such shoddy quality. I trusted in the quality of the brand (and accepted the higher price) and ordered. Since the paper is so thin that any writing shows through on the opposite or back side of the page, the date before or following will never be a clean slate. I need an agenda/calendar like this; I need this item now. Otherwise, I would absolutely return it. I may still return it. I paid $20. It’s a company that considers itself to be at the top of its market. Yet the pages/paper are less than dollar store spiral notebook quality. The pages *look* nice until you write in them. Writing in a “Daily Diary/Planner” is the whole point of this item. It is what it is made to be used for! I own journals with almost as many pages that still have thick quality paper. Made by other companies. If you can find a daily diary/planner that meets your needs and is made by a different company, try that one. Read the reviews too, to make sure you don’t run into a quality issue like this! No one wants to face a new page, a fresh new day, that looks like it’s already been written on. It’s not clean; it’s not inspiring. It just looks like a mess. Moleskine - why would you think you could pass off such low grade materials? For reals, I would like to know.