I'm not sure exactly why the guy from "Pawn Stars" is a rip-off. The product may not be good, but he gets paid a nice amount of monies from the manufacturer. Nothing wrong with making a bit of coin hawking a product. We all should be so lucky the way we tout different blends and pipes. And . . . we do it for nothing, often pushing a tobacco we love to someone who will find they despise it after shelling out good money. But that certainly doesn't make the person recommending the blend a ripoff. Caveat emptor!