No More Idea Pipe Reviews, Please

[admin]

That's enough on the Idea Pipe Reviews guys.

I don't normally like to publicly talk about the business side of this site, and the decisions I make, but ... let's see if I regret this or not later.

They sent through an inquiry for advertising. Leaving out the details of why, I decided I didn't want to do business with them. It has nothing to do with race, or country of origin of the products. I just had a feeling that it would be more trouble than it was worth, that they would be high maintenance.

They've been getting free advertising by sending out free pipes to get reviews.

Now it needs to stop, please.

 

[ashdigger]

Thank you.

 

[olkofri]

Bravo! ?

 

[workman]

Bad Idea?

 

[Casual]

But will they blend? @mikethompson please DM me with the results.

 

[cigrmaster]

Smart move in my opinion Kevin. When I owned my pool hall people would try to bring in all kinds of drinks and chips and candy.

Even though I sold all of those things for a tidy profit. I would ask them to please put those things back in their cars and almost all of them respected my request and I got them to understand that if I allowed everyone to bring in food and drinks that would take away some of my profits which I worked very hard to get.

If you ever go to the movies they never let you bring in your own popcorn, or drinks or candy. It is just a proper etiquette thing that is about respecting the place you are doing business with. When I ran car dealer ships, I would never let another store bring another type of car with stickers all over it and let them put it in the front row of the cars I was selling. It is all about respect and people know when they are doing something that is disrespectful. Advertising your business in front of another mans business is just not proper etiquette.

I had a bookie who had dibs on my place and no one would dare try doing business in my place as everyone knew whose territory it was. Everyone in the state new the rules and I never had any issues.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I think this is a wise decision. I believe in general, the advertisers you have are quality organizations or at least sell quality products. I think diluting that would be a bad thing. More is less and less is more.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Fair call mate. Shame I couldn’t post the torture pics but i think we all know where the thread was going....don’t buy one. Like ever. And if the free pipe deal tempts ya, just message @ashdigger

 

[mingc]

I've wondered whether Idea Pipe's real target is the China market which is potentially, if not already, larger than the US market. (E.g., in his PM interview, Chris Gawith says that his China orders are 2X the US'). And that what Idea was doing here was to burnish its image in China by showing them that it is active and getting reviews here. It wasn't really trying to sell to us forum denizens, but to Chinese customers by telling then, "see, even the foreign devils are taking us seriously." I mean, why would it otherwise try to serve the overseas market, when its domestic market is so huge? That's my theory.

 

[wyfbane]

Sounds like it was for the best. When I entered those threads there seemed to be a lot of discord.

 

[warren]

Well written Kev. I appreciate your willingness to share the reasoning, unnecessary as it is.

 

[gamzultovah]

Love the honesty and transparency. Thank you.

 

[kcghost]

Yep.

 

[olkofri]

I've wondered whether Idea Pipe's real target is the China market which is potentially, if not already, larger than the US market. (E.g., in his PM interview, Chris Gawith says that his China orders are 2X the US'). And that what Idea was doing here was to burnish its image in China by showing them that it is active and getting reviews here. It wasn't really trying to sell to us forum denizens, but to Chinese customers by telling then, "see, even the foreign devils are taking us seriously." I mean, why would it otherwise try to serve the overseas market, when its domestic market is so huge? That's my theory.

I've read elsewhere that the Chinese market is highly regulated so that these ventures are not allowed to sell on certain platforms to the Chinese national market—part of their gov't general strategy in terms of using market forces for hegemony. Venturing into this topic, well, would be opening the proverbial can of worms, so I'll just stop there. Besides, it's also a convoluted issue with no clear and simple answer, so I don't feel like giving myself and you guys a headache—if I wanted a headache I'd smoke a latakia bomb.

 

[sablebrush52]

So, no ideas.

 

[PipeIT]

@admin

I was the last person, and from what I can tell searching the forum, the only person to bring these pipes up.

The last time I spoke was on January 5th, 16 days ago, and I mentioned that I tossed the pipe out, which I assumed made it quite clear I was done with it.

Bringing up this post to make mention of it, makes me feel like you are singling me out, because no one else has brought it up and given the past responses over it, it seemed fairly certain no one was either.

So maybe your intentions, I’ll assume we’re not meant to imply anything towards me, but then again, I’m the one who brought this up, so see and reading this has made me feel awkward/uncomfortable. ?

I would greatly appreciate your feedback on this, because others too have made me feel bad over this as well, and it has never been, or will it ever be my intentions ever, to have any strife with anyone on this forum. I’m just here as a fellow smoker, learning, sharing and enjoying together.

Comrades In Arms!

If I have caused anyone discomfort in any way, and anyone still harboring resentment on past conversations, I say I’m SORRY, so please let us move forward, forget, forgive, and find enjoyment here!

Aloha! ? ?

P.S. I don’t look like a Hippy all the time! ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

the only person to bring these pipes up.

There have been a few other threads.

 

[PipeIT]

There have been a few other threads.

@Ahi Ka just mentioned this to me.

But I did start it. LOL ?

Aloha! ?

 

[Ahi Ka]

@Ahi Ka just mentioned this to me.

But I did start it. LOL ?

Aloha! ?

Aloha nui loa

 

[Chasing Embers]

Aloha nui loa

Careful, English only.