In Buying Pipes, are You a Quick Sale or Otherwise?

[mso489]

In deciding on buying a pipe, I deliberate until I'm cross-eyed, and then I deliberate some more, and half the time, I don't buy the damned thing anyway. At a pipe show or two, I have bought on impulse, but usually something I had been generically shopping for a long time -- a panel pipe, or a pipe with a bamboo shank. Buying online, I probably visit a pipe 25 or 30 times or more, comparing it to several other pipes as I go. In most cases, it isn't a big investment either. How are you? Quick draw or endless deliberation?

 

[warren]

If it catches my eye, passes the other criteria, I'll buy it. I rarely agonize over purchases. I'll go into a shop with no intention to buy, just to browse. If my eye settles on a particular pipe ... the process begins.

 

[Briar Lee]

In deciding on buying a pipe, I deliberate until I'm cross-eyed, and then I deliberate some more, and half the time, I don't buy the damned thing anyway. At a pipe show or two, I have bought on impulse, but usually something I had been generically shopping for a long time -- a panel pipe, or a pipe with a bamboo shank. Buying online, I probably visit a pipe 25 or 30 times or more, comparing it to several other pipes as I go. In most cases, it isn't a big investment either. How are you? Quick draw or endless deliberation?

Only the highest condition Lees.

They must be under $30, sorta.

Maybe.

I’ll buy anything with nice briar, that’s cheap though.

It’s an addiction.

Usually I’m very particular what I bid on.

 

[Casual]

The larger the collection, the longer the deliberation. It’s hard to come up with a rationalization of why there’s a hole in my stable of thirty pipes. I can’t imagine the hundredth.

 

[magicpiper]

I don’t deliberate long. I don’t do a lot of pipe shopping. When something jumps out at me, I usually make a quick purchase.

 

[DanWil84]

For now quick draw, but I somehow hardly buy a pipe, I rather spend my money on tobacco.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Both, if I see something that appeals to me and I've got the cash, I quick draw like Wyatt Earp. But, sometimes I will dick around, usually because I am not sure of the chamber dimensions, or the make, or it is over $1000, I'll sleep on it. The last was a Northern Briars bent bulldog at The Briary with a bend that looked as perfect as a French S curve template, but it was a humdrum chamber size (for me at the time). Slept on it, and when I got to the Briary at opening the next day, it was boxed up and ready to ship to its new owner. Crap!! Snoozed and loozed.

 

[Merton]

I usually sleep on it. Have lost more than a few over the years but I have a lot of pipes so no big deal. Every once in awhile a particular pipe calls out and I buy immediately. At this point, I am more inclined to buy tobacco in light of what I perceive may be hard times on the horizon. That, I think, is the best advice for anyone with more, say, than a dozen pipes already.

 

[shanez]

I have pipes that took me over a year to pull the trigger on although that was mainly due to price. I have other pipes that I couldn't seem to order fast enough from the moment I saw them. I never know what I'm doing.

 

[scloyd]

If it's a pipe I like at an antique shop, it's a quick sale. I'm not taking a chance of going back and finding it's gone.

A new pipe online, I think about it for a while. I have saved some money by waiting.

 

[jaytex1969]

I do way more window shopping than buying.

I've reached a point of "saturation" where fewer and fewer pipes call out to me.

 

[weezell]

I rather spend my money on tobacco.

I've reached a point of "saturation" where fewer and fewer pipes call out to me.

Agree with the above...

 

[pepesdad1]

If it is a Cramptholomew or Ron Powell pipe...then there is no weaseling about it. If I have the $$ then it is picked up...have more than I need at the present after giving away about 30 pipes because I had new ones and wanted to smoke the new ones. Share the joy is my motto.

 

[bullet08]

Grain has to be just right. Then, it's easy. If it "just good enough", I spend days looking at it to decide. Since I only smoke Peterson, stems are always crap shoot. But mostly been lucky. Only one stem that's seriously twisted.

 

[OzPiper]

I've reached a point of "saturation" where fewer and fewer pipes call out to me.


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I'd hoped that at pipe No 50 that that would be the case.
Sadly not.

 

[Grangerous]

Both. I’ve done both. I have more than enough pipes. Can’t have enough tobacco.

 

[saltedplug]

I think that most who read and post here are serious about pipe smoking in a way other pipe smokers aren't. The former group is bound to read a lot about pipes as well as the reasons why others love them. It rubs off, and before long you love pipes. For this group I don't think it matters how many pipes they have and how much money they spend.

They're going to keep on buying them, often making it clear to family not to bury them with their professionally
copied kitana but instead their pipes, if the casket lid can be closed atop them.

 

[daytonsean]

Endless deliberation. Nauseating deliberation. And then I pass, usually. I have 7 pipes in total, and I got my first one in 2007. I overthink it. The handful of pipes that I have work great, and I rarely feel the need to get another.

 

[sablebrush52]

If I'm really interested in something that I'm in the market to get, I don't screw around. If I do screw around it means I wasn't that interested in it.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Placing an order with AlPascia a few months ago, I already had two pipes chosen with weeks of deliberation, but on the same day of placing the order another fantastic looking pipe popped up and I threw it in the cart. No regrets either way.