Buy The Pipe

[Perique]

When you see that estate pipe on one of the vendor websites you frequently peruse... Buy the pipe.
I know. You'll think about it. You'll ask yourself: do I really need it? There will be the guilt. You'll actually line it up: you'll be in the cart or have your email to the vender ready. Then you'll think the better of it. You'll "do the right thing" and walk away. You'll feel better for about 12-24 hours. You'll be proud that you didn't pull the trigger.
Then, within a day or two, you'll be back. On-line. Looking at it. You may even ask your wife or girlfriend: what do you thi k of this pipe? Then the ritual will repeat. You'll walk away.
But you'll be back.
This may go on for quite awhile.
Then, one day, that pipe -- that perfect beautiful little pipe -- will be gone.
Which means, explicitly, someone else will have bought it. It's not that you begrudge them. Good for them! You'll move on.
But not really.
You'll think about that pipe. From time to time. Sitting out on your front porch smoking some other pipe. Maybe a very nice pipe. But you'll think about that pipe. And you'll kick yourself for not pulling the trigger.
So just buy the pipe.
You'll never know when you passed on the pipe that'll keep you up at night.
Buy the pipe.

 

[Perique]

Don't end up like me. Buy the damned pipe.

 

[cigrmaster]

When I see a pipe that I know I will love, I do not hesitate. The last two estate pipes I bought took all of 2 minutes, I was worried that even though it was in my basket, someone else could have grabbed it. He who hesitates is lost, so buy the pipe.

 

[erichbaumer]

I feel so much better about my recent Stanwell purchase. Cheerleader indeed.

 

[foggymountain]

I know what you are talking about, Perique. But I just buy the pipe these days.

 

[cortezattic]

All you guys are shameless enablers! :lol:

 

[daytonsean]

+1 Cortez.

 

[pruss]

Ah Perique, I feel your pain.
I was exploring the estates section of an online vendor and saw an awesome Scott Klein pipe that was just screaming at me. Now, I was in the midst of a commission with funds earmarked for that purchase, and was bidding on an online auction. So I flagged the page, and waited. Then went back to the site, and waited. Then went back to the site, and waited. Meanwhile I won the online auction. Then went back to that estate pipe; and waited. My commission finally wrapped up and I sent the payment into the pipe maker. I then went back to the estate pipe, and it was gone.
Yeah, so I'm a bit of a glutton. But I'll take two out of three.
Lesson learned. Don't go looking at other pipes, while you've got irons in the fire.
-- Pat

 

[sparrowhawk]

If finances don't stop me, I'll just buy the thing; I was uneasy about my Ashton because the photography didn't show off the colors properly, but I'm extremely happy I got it, despite the price tag--it was worth every cent, and I'll never find a pipe like that again.

 

[misterlowercase]

No doubt about all this, no doubt.
I'm still sad and feel stupid for missing out onna whopper myself.

:crying:
On one of the most rarest of instances when I actually had the money and hit the right spot at the right time, I hesitated, contemplating, even though my heart was screaming yes! yes! yes! and my gut was sayin' go! go! go! -- I had to lissen to my dumb rational brain, what a moron me is, I've been reverberating with regret ever since.
This was the pipe:

http://www.briarart.com/0864text.htm
The Buy The Pipe! advice goes double for artisan pipes that suddenly pop up.
The window is usually small and there's a short frame of time to grab the gold, that pipe went very fast, but I did have an oppo to buy it, why oh why was I sucha slowpoke? From now on when I find somethin' solid I dig deep, I'll be a quickdraw mcgraw gunslinger fersure!
Another sad story,

on Mon. at Smokingpipes I had this pipe in my basket, only $50 plus the 15% off sale,

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/italy/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=105217

...by the time I was finished filling my cart,it was already gone to another, and I was pretty fast too --- in my cart it still showed up, but as 0 quantity and unavailable, you snooze you looze!

 

[sparrowhawk]

Wow. Are you undergoing grief therapy now? I would be. I'm more glad than ever I got that Ashton.

 

[numbersix]

I am not so sure Perique. I do agree that if you see a pipe that you love - jump on it because it will soon be sold.
However, if there's enough doubt to not pursue the purchase immediately - regardless of funds - then you probably will regret the purchase later on (or least I usually have).

 

[Perique]

I hear ya #6, an my post was partially tongue in cheek (partially...)
But if you change your mind you can always sell it. Very rarely, however, do you get another chance to buy it.

 

[numbersix]

But if you change your mind you can always sell it.

Based on my track record, you will usually take a big loss if you do - lol!

 

[misterlowercase]

Yeah Roth,

that thing is a breath-taker!
Brian Ruthenberg
He's got one available right now, but I don't like silverwork,

and it's slightly more pricey, and the blast is not as severe:

http://www.briarart.com/0869text.htm

 

[murf]

aww, jeez! you guys just convinced me to bite on a savinelli bulldog estate. no beadlines, of course
and i just HAD to get free shipping. 5 tins escudo and OGS

 

[dread]

Ha! I have this problem ALL THE TIME!!!!!!
I've started to figure out my budget amount and I now just buy the pipe. I just did so last night. I feel better. At least until the package arrives and my wife sees it . . .

 

[Perique]

Mike,
Buy. The. Pipe.
(ironically the pipe I still think about was on your site!)

 

[rockymtnsmoker]

But just remember what the man sang... If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with :wink:

 

[trailspike48]

Don't end up like me. Buy the damned pipe

Perique, that must have been a beauty.
Like most members here I'm sure, I've missed out on pipes I was eyeballing instead of buying.