How much would you pay for a pipe ?

[zanthal]

$75 is the most I've spent, and I don't really see the reason to spend much more than that.
Plenty of excellent work is done in the $50-125 price range.

 

[ohin3]

I think this sentiment has been well expressed here, but I have to chime in with the rest of you...It's a matter of your budget, your life style and your reason for buying pipes. I would guess that most are going to buy a pipe like that as an investment and then resell it for a profit. I spend what I can when I can on a pipe that catches my eye. Most of these hand made, over $300.00 pipes will never see my hand.

 

[rigmedic1]

2011 was the year of the pipe for me. I purchased 15 pipes! That is really not typical, lol. I have topped $100.00 only twice in 36 year of pipe smoking, and that was in 1986 when I payed $112.00 for a hand carved Sam Martin:

And $200.00 for my Peterson Plato in December 2011:

I am planing this year to save up and buy either another high end Pete or a Radice, if the Pad bug doesn't wear me down.

 

[spyder71]

Wow, the groceries I could buy with that kind of money! I just debated for three days on my first NEW pipe purchase. I just bought a Sav Trevi Rusticated from PipesAndCicars.com and being broke aside, I just cant see spending much more than a couple hundred on a new pipe.

 

[pipeinhand]

@rigmedic, if you ever want to let that Sam Martin go, you call me first, damn that is nice.
I have some means but not enough to buy that ugly pipe, $3500, no way.
I would say $500 would be my limit unless it was a coveted item, but maybe $800 is the top for OMG I have to have it.

 

[bigvan]

Just because someone spends more money on pipes than you do is no reason to call them an "idiot". Doing so makes you seem childish.
Every hobby (cars, wine, watches, pens, fishing rods, guns) has its high end. This is ours.

 

[hobie1dog]

Here you go.....This person has a price of $ 100,000.00 on this pipe on Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bruyerl-Garantie-Pipe-/150754284800?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2319a7d500

 

[mp31guitar]

The most I've spent is $150 for my Stanwell 2010 Pipe of the Year. I can't see spending much more than that.

 

[pstlpkr]

Hobie:

That pipe looks to be of very mediocre quality, and it needs a good restoration.

But, I wouldn't think it is worth more than $10 or $15.

 

[hanymamdouh]

My limit is 350$, only to control my hunger of collecting pipes. I've just got two new pipes, one for me and other for dad, mine is Perterson's SH Baker Street (bulldog), and dad's is Peterson's Return of SH Le Strade (the giant bowl), both are hallmarked. My next one will be Peterson's Darwin Collection Delux

 

[sirsmokesalot]

I guess like anything else in life...If you can afford it and you want it, you'll buy it.

I'm sure a pipe like that won't smoke any better then a $200 one will...But you really aren't

paying for the pipe I guess, but the name and the prestige of owning it that goes with it.

As for me....I won't spend over $200 because I've seen some really nice pipes for less!

I rarely spend over $150 to be honest.

 

[sirsmokesalot]

@rigmedic1....That Peterson Plato you own Is Sweet! I might have to look at one of those.

I feel PAD closing in on me!

 

[judcole]

+1 to bigvan

 

[seakayak]

The most expensive pipe in my stable is a Ser Jacobo that set me back $150. I'd be willing to go higher for the right piece; maybe to $350 or so, but that's pretty much my limit.

 

[markw4mms]

I guess the most expensive pipe I have is a Caminetto I paid around $130 for back in the late '70's. I'm not sure what the would translate to in today's dollars, but if I had the money to blow, this is one I would be glad to drop the bucks on:

It's a Castello Preziosa, and is around $900.

 

[bigvan]

I did some checking, Mark, and $130 in 1978 is about the same as $430 right now.

 

[markw4mms]

Wow, thanks Bigvan, that's a lot of money! I thought it was kinda expensive back then, but I did get an employee discount, and working 3 jobs at that time, so it wasn't too bad. I couldn't afford it today though.

 

[bobby46]

There are (and always will be) two camps here: the pipe smokers, and pipe collectors. If you pay significantly more for your pipes (or any other object) than its intrinsic value, face it; you are a collector.

 

[rigmedic1]

I must be a collector then. 60 plus pipes, and I have overpayed for a couple of those. But I am a cheapskate at heart, heh heh. Most of my pipes are refurbs that I picked up on the cheap. I had bought the Sam Martin in '86 on a layaway plan at the Tinderbox in Metairie. That high dollar Pete Plato was a deal I could not pass up. Sometimes there will be pipes that you just have to have, much like anything else. I remember when I thought I'd never pay more than $25.00 for a pipe too, lol.

 

[martin]

Ebay is a bad place. I just weakened and payed $150 for this Mario Grandi giant.

I simply had to have it !! Unsmoked too.

Can't wait to give it a try.