Lost One in a Really Hot Estate Market

mso489 · Feb 12, 2015

Ordered an unsmoked estate pipe, a Sav 404 zulu/yacht unfinished pipe, from smokingpipes.com,

but oops, someone else had already ordered it ten minutes before I did. SP is really fast in removing

pipes from the online site, but in this case, I was caught in the middle. This pipe was $45, and I

jumped on it, but not fast enough. They offered me a credit or a refund, and I asked for the refund.

Don't expect to see that pipe at the price, unsmoked, again any time soon. The estate market must be

really hot.

buroak · Feb 12, 2015

The estate market is very hot. If such a thing is possible, I think it is becoming a bubble. People are flipping pipes now like folks were flipping houses back before 2008.

buroak · Feb 14, 2015

Although the pictures are no longer available to give us a sense of the pipe's condition, I think this listing provides perspective on how the market has heated up of late. I hope a buyers market will reemerge.

buroak · Feb 24, 2015

mso489, When I first saw your OP I thought this thread would get quite a bit of interest.

yohanan · Feb 24, 2015

Same thing happend to me about 6 months ago, added a Peterson Patent System to the cart, then went back and added some tobacco. When I was checking out, the Peterson was no longer available, :crying: this was in a time span of about 5 minutes. We win some, and we lose some. : puffy

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ericthered · Feb 24, 2015

I know sites like ticketmaster will temporarily hold concert seats when you place them in your cart. If you don't pull the trigger within a certain window (a few minutes) the seats are again made publically available. This would be a nice feature for our favorite pipe and tobacco websites, both for the above-mentioned problems of having pipes purchased out from under you and also for those hard-to-get tobaccos that might get snapped up quickly.
The cost/benefit might not be there from the companies' point-of-view based on how infrequently it happens and the unlikelihood of it causing customer loss, but in a perfect world it would be nice!

mso489 · Feb 24, 2015

Had I been a newcomer at SP, I might have been put off, but they have been excellent over so many purchases over years.

They gave me free shipping on my next order when a gift didn't get to the recipient on time, and brought a pipe to my local

pipe show to save me shipping, and so on. From observation, I know the estate market has really heated up. I think all the

online retailers know it's good customer relations to get those sold pipe off the site (or marked SOLD) as soon as possible.

I have been spoiled in some instances by being able to brood over a pipe for years (literally) and finally bought it. Some pipes

just don't sell. But an unsmoked Savenelli estate pipe on a well-respected site like SP, buy now or bid it farewell.

pipesinperu · Feb 24, 2015

Same thing happened to me with a gorgeous Castello on Briar Blues not too long ago. I almost pulled the trigger, then thought I would go run a few errands and if it was there when I got back then that meant it was mine. Looked an hour later and it was gone. It showed up in a post here shortly after, so it went to a forum member (Pruss, if I'm not mistaken), so that somehow made it slightly better, haha. You have to act fast with these estates, or forever hold your peace!

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