So I recently bought two small lots of estate pipes off the 'bay. Some pipes definitely had issues and some weren't even worth the postage. Both lots included a Meerschaum and when they arrived, there were chunks broken inside the bowls and it seems one of the stems is just stripped out. I've never specifically been attracted to meerschaums, so this was my first experience. Is buying them used just a lost cause? Are they very fragile? Am I just having bad luck?