Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
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I was watching this, but was not serious about buying this for now. Did not bid
SASIENI SPECIALLY SELECTED ONE DOT FISH TALE LOGO PIPE | eBay
MARKED: SASIENI SPECIALLY SELECTED. 1 PIPE OR ENTIRE COLLECTIONS. MAKE SURE TO SUPER SIZE THE PHOTOS FOR A BETTER VIEW.www.ebay.com
Only four pictures, but the nomenclature looks pretty crisp.
This upshall went really cheap. I don’t know much about Upshalls, still not serious about buying so put in a half hearted second highest bid, to help the seller
EXCELLENT James Upshall A GRADE LARGE BILLIARD FREEHAND ENGLISH Estate Pipe | eBay
It is a wonderful example of the legendary English HAND MADE pipemaking tradition. The original stem is in near perfect condition, with a crisp white JU stem mark! All stampings are very crisp, the chamber is like new, the rim is pristine. this pipe really is near new, attesting to the care...
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Another way to put it is that you put in a half hearted second highest bid to hurt the buyer.
It seems like a very strange reason to bid to me. To be fair, I'm probably missing something. I just don't understand the motivation of something like that.
It seems like a very strange reason to bid to me. To be fair, I'm probably missing something. I just don't understand the motivation of something like that.
This is very simple really. An interested buyer would put a max bid based on the value he perceives. This is his ceiling.
As a competitor I don’t know his ceiling. But I can see the floor. Even without researching ceiling I can see it is going cheap. So I put in an amount of money I can afford to spend as my ceiling. If I bid over the ceiling of the interested bidder I will win it. This often happens, if the winning bidder has also put in a low ceiling.
So it’s a win all around...
As a competitor I don’t know his ceiling. But I can see the floor. Even without researching ceiling I can see it is going cheap. So I put in an amount of money I can afford to spend as my ceiling. If I bid over the ceiling of the interested bidder I will win it. This often happens, if the winning bidder has also put in a low ceiling.
So it’s a win all around...
- If the interested bidder has bid a fair amount he wins
- If the interested bidder has lowballed then I win
- Seller wins in both cases as the bid goes up
I thought there must be something more to it. It first read like you just put in a bid knowing it wouldn't go anywhere only to bump it up for the seller, which seemed odd.
That's about par for a A grade James Upshall (step below the more common P grade)
This one still has time to go...$470.00
Rare Shape, great finish, condition?? Looks a little toasty up top.
Vintage Dunhill Root Briar Estate Pipe | eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dunhill-Root-Briar-Estate-Pipe/264525103786
Rare Shape, great finish, condition?? Looks a little toasty up top.
Vintage Dunhill Root Briar Estate Pipe | eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dunhill-Root-Briar-Estate-Pipe/264525103786
Personally, I wouldn't be bidding on any pipe whose rim wasn't included in the photographs.This one still has time to go...$470.00
Rare Shape, great finish, condition?? Looks a little toasty up top.
Vintage Dunhill Root Briar Estate Pipe | eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dunhill-Root-Briar-Estate-Pipe/264525103786
I very much agree, most especially with a severely canted bowl like this (once) beautiful Belge .
Yikes, $532 on that Dunhill (belge?)
This one was referred to me by a buddy in Europe. Massive, Magnum sized Parker (1936?). BUT, it has several large cracks. Rich Esserman said they were most likely flaws from the start, which relegated it to being a Parker. He said that he would never trust to smoke it, I agree. Some folks sure were interested in the pipe. Eight bidders (Private) w/22 bids, ended at $340. Did they know something Rich nor I didn't? $340 for a display piece seems pretty high.
This one was referred to me by a buddy in Europe. Massive, Magnum sized Parker (1936?). BUT, it has several large cracks. Rich Esserman said they were most likely flaws from the start, which relegated it to being a Parker. He said that he would never trust to smoke it, I agree. Some folks sure were interested in the pipe. Eight bidders (Private) w/22 bids, ended at $340. Did they know something Rich nor I didn't? $340 for a display piece seems pretty high.
GIAGANTIC PARKER (DUNHILL) HUGE BRIAR ESTATE PIPE | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for GIAGANTIC PARKER (DUNHILL) HUGE BRIAR ESTATE PIPE at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
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Yikes, $532 on that Dunhill (belge?)
This one was referred to me by a buddy in Europe. Massive, Magnum sized Parker (1936?). BUT, it has several large cracks. Rich Esserman said they were most likely flaws from the start, which relegated it to being a Parker. He said that he would never trust to smoke it, I agree. Some folks sure were interested in the pipe. Eight bidders (Private) w/22 bids, ended at $340. Did they know something Rich nor I didn't? $340 for a display piece seems pretty high.
GIAGANTIC PARKER (DUNHILL) HUGE BRIAR ESTATE PIPE | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for GIAGANTIC PARKER (DUNHILL) HUGE BRIAR ESTATE PIPE at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!www.ebay.com
Yikes indeed. Maybe the buyer just liked the idea of owning a unique bit of tobacciana rather than a functioning pipe. Makes one hell of a doorstop. It can probably be made functional with enough epoxy and briar dust. At least until it splits again.
The copy is misleading since it says it was made by Dunhill. It wasn't made by Dunhill, it was made by Parker, a separate operation formed by Dunhill to handle its discards.
As for the price on the Dunhill belge, there are many people out there of greater faith than me when it comes to buying online.
This went unfair, I tried to get this cheap and someone smart brain''snagged it on the last second, before I was noticing this last second bidding happening on Ebay's European sites but now seems like this habit is not an uncommon practice on the Ebay Usa
??ENGLISH ESTATE PIPE: DUNHILL 197 SHELL - 1964 | eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/372813433814?_trksid=p2471758.m4704
??ENGLISH ESTATE PIPE: DUNHILL 197 SHELL - 1964 | eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/372813433814?_trksid=p2471758.m4704
This is an interesting one. I haven't seen this pipe since the 80's and then only in pictures.
Dunhill Golf Club Pipe
Dunhill Golf Club Pipe
Another interesting antique Dunhill. I've never seen this shape from Dunhill. It went for $710
Dunhill Cavalier
Dunhill Cavalier