MM Quality Expectations

[Akoni808]

This post is in no way one of complaint. It’s hard to complain about a $6 pipe. I’m just curious what your expectations of qc are with MM, and if you’d accept these pipes, toss them, or ask for replacement?

Pipe 1

Pipe 2

 

[Kobold]

I would just smoke it.

 

[Piping Abe]

You can heat up that tenon in boiling water for a few seconds and bend it. And since its not worth the postage i’d fix it and smoke it. I’d ignore the off center part as well.

 

[Akoni808]

Also to specify these are pictures of two separate pipes as labeled.

 

[Piping Abe]

I bet if you emailed them directly, theyd make it right.

 

[AroEnglish]

I bet if you emailed them directly, theyd make it right.

Agreed. Send them an email and I’m sure they’d send you two stems for free.

But the fact that these made it thorough QC is still troubling.

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

If you knew you were going to get that pipe before you spent your $6 I bet you wouldn't have bought it, in the same way you wouldn't spend $6 on rotten tobacco. Personally I know I'd be too lazy to ask for a replacement were it me, but it is the right thing to do.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Do those have the actual MM sticker on the bottom of them?

 

[ThermionicScott]

Your pipes just “dress to the left”, no biggie.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

I love MM cobs, especially the Legend, because they are disposable. If I can smoke it, I smoke it. If I can fix it, I fix it. I have not come across one so defective I have just tossed it yet. I would embrace your initial pipe image as a custom MM bent.

 

[Akoni808]

Do those have the actual MM sticker on the bottom of them?

They do. I won’t name the vender, but they do sponsor this forum, so they are MM.

Agreed. Send them an email and I’m sure they’d send you two stems for free.

But the fact that these made it thorough QC is still troubling.

I bet if you emailed them directly, theyd make it right.

For full disclosure, I did ask for a replacement for the first pipe pictured. So the second pipe pictured is that replacement they sent. Again I’m not complaining, I’m just curious what my standards should be when it comes to MM.

 

[Scottmi]

they look like seconds. i'd email them with pics. also, you can stick 'em in your pumpkin for halloween

 

[Ahi Ka]

Switch the stems and it will work out the difference. I actually think they considered this went they sent you pipe 2. You lucky dog, you got two artisan pipes for the price of one.

 

[TN Jed]

Well it cost about the same as a Big Mac so I'd say semi-smokeable would be on-par.

 

[Akoni808]

Well it cost about the same as a Big Mac so I'd say semi-smokeable would be on-par.

Fair enough

 

[onestrangeone]

I kinda like the off center one, I would probably ask for a replacement stem and call it good enough.

 

[didimauw]

I think you would have been better off bending the stem of the first one. Those are very sad examples unfortunately. I have owned 8 pipes from them and never an issue.

 

[Coreios]

Some guys consider a crooked stem a gift.

 

[Chasing Embers]

You lucky dog, you got two artisan pipes for the price of one.

That actually happened to me back in Summer when I commented about a pit in the first one.

 

[OzPiper]

A pipe with Peyronie’s D
Not uncommon
Should not affect its function