Pipe Regrets

[Recon Paul]

I regret my MM minis, but at $2 a pop I don't regret them that much.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

You owe the buyer reasonable functionality. Lacking that, a refund. And the seller should know the merchandise better such that it never gets to this point.
Sorry.

Well you owe it to other forum members to disclose who the scumbag is/was - I'm sorry for your loss of your dad - I hope it wasn't too difficult.

 

[mso489]

I mostly avoid attaching regrets to pipes and tobacco. The obvious regretted pipes I've traded away. I sometimes regret, being a moderate smoker, getting around to some of my pipes so rarely, but then I'm pleased and kind of surprised when I do. For a while I regretted buying so many pipes rather than fewer higher-priced pipes, but the more I return to the various ones, up-market and down, I'm quite pleased with most.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Sometimes I'll regret smoking a bowl inn certain pipes that I acutally like - just not for that moment - but regret passes- I also regret smoking tobacco I don't love - Years ago I'd save it like it was gold - these days I just throw it away.

 

[bnichols23]

Here’s a regret. I purchased a Dunhill Swan Shape (1930’s) from a Forum member. I paid full freight, over $300. The pipe arrived and I set it aside because my father’s health was failing and I had my hands full with that and our business.

Flash forward about six months. I catch my breath after my father’s passing and I decide to look at the pipe in detail. Well, there’s a crack in the bowl chamber that was undisclosed by the shithead seller.

I contactthe seller and explained the situation. I gave him the full circumstances including not only had I not smoked it, but I hadn’t taken it out of the box it was shipped in.

Didn’t matter. I was the proud owner of firewood.

The part that stung and officially made it a regret, was a few weeks later, that same Forum member bragged about finding the pipe dirt cheap in pristine condition and then selling it for a crazy profit.

I handle my regrets different than most. The pipe was thrown in the trash. And I remember who that person was.... forever... Some day our paths with cross and the trash can will be filled again.

I normally don't like embarrassing forum members in public, but actions like that deserve a call-out. If one forum member shafts another AND acts like a total jackleg jackass, to me that breaks all bargains. We're a brotherhood, & treating a good forum member that way to me rates a call-out. -growl-

Bill

 

[bnichols23]

Life's too short to spend much time on regrets. The only pipe that got away that I occasionally think about, usually when a thread like this one shows up, is a 1915 cased Barling companion set. 1915 was my father's birth year. The other bidder, who lived in Singapore, was just more determined to get it than was moi. When the price hit about 250% of market I let him have it, the bastid...

If the goofball wants it that bad, let him get his just desserts & revel in paying excessive times fair market. -evyl grin-

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ha, right? Sometimes the sniper gets sniped himself....

Unless it's a 9004. If someone outbid my crazy max bid for those, then I feel a little less crazy

 

[ashdigger]

I normally don't like embarrassing forum members in public, but actions like that deserve a call-out. If one forum member shafts another AND acts like a total jackleg jackass, to me that breaks all bargains. We're a brotherhood, & treating a good forum member that way to me rates a call-out. -growl-

Bill

He’s no longer an active member. If he pops up I’ll gladly pin the tail on that donkey.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I was bidding on this tonight and let it get away. Some random literally outbid everyone on about 30 pipes. Sure the math averaged out for them to being a reasonable deal over all...it’s just a shame this beauty got caught up in the tactic. It was a 1950s comoys that was exported to USA with the “made in London” (circle) over England COM. Maybe I’ll see it sometime again soon.

 

[ChuckMijo]

Ahi Ka you sure that’s a Comoy? The seconds were marked Select Grain. The Com would be on other side.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Ahi Ka you sure that’s a Comoy? The seconds were marked Select Grain. The Com would be on other side.

COM was on the RH shank. The LH shank said “the sterling pipe”. I’d gladly be wrong, in fact I hope I am! Lol but yeah that’s the conclusion I came to

edit: here’s a pic of RH shank w COM

 

[cory84]

No real pipe regrets here. However, I did give away last tin of Frog Morton On The Town to a buddy new to pipe smoking. I went to buy more and .......GONE

 

[Merton]

I regret dropping this:
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Smokes real funny now...

that photo made me wince. I dropped a Becker 3 club dublin getting out of my car on the very first day I had it and the shank snapped just like that. Had smoked it once. Most expensive bowl i ever had.

 

[gamzultovah]

that photo made me wince. I dropped a Becker 3 club dublin getting out of my car on the very first day I had it and the shank snapped just like that. Had smoked it once. Most expensive bowl i ever had.

Yeah. I picked it up off the floor and said “Shit! Oh well...” but my wife, she started to cry. I had only had the pipe for a little while and she knew how much I it meant to me as it was one of my bucket list pipes.

It was a very touching moment to say the least. The pipe can easily be fixed as the break is clean and no miscellaneous pieces are missing...but no. I keep it around to remind myself to be more careful with the things I love; and to be more careful with what I choose to love.

 

[anotherbob]

o.k. I have one. Years ago I quite smoking and tobacco for about a year (never again) got rid of all but one pipe and I had tyrolean that was supposed to be a cheap unsmokable piece of shot. Well it smoked great in a one in a million chance. I wish I still had that sucker.

 

[Mantis Sandman Piper]

Yupperz…my grandfathers (moms dad) kaywoodie Zulu-ish/bent canted Dublin-esque pipe…I forget the # stamp….was kinda rough when I got it, long after he passed….gave it a refurb and some TLC…came out real nice! Beautiful pipe!…smoked good too!….now somebody else has it…I hope they are enjoying it nicely in its second life…kinda wish I held on to that one, dang….shucks, oh well, I still have one of his Kaywoodie Author 13 B…which I will NEVER intentionally part with…

 

[AroEnglish]

There are a few purchases I've made that I've regretted but I just sold them and moved on. There are even more that I regret not buying The latest was a sweet little Moretti apple at the NASPC show.