There have been so many complaints about that vendor over the years. They used to buff the shit out of their pipes and photoshop them. I don't think they do that anymore, and so have entered into a new era, and people here are buying from them. I have seen threads where the lady has weighed in on here, but I am not even going to deal with them. They used to have some crazy lingo in their ads where if you bid you forfeit you ability to give them negative reviews or some such madness.
I am just curious where they get all those nice pipes. I guess she has wooed an awful lot of people.
Life is too short for me to risk it.
On a lighter note, doc, your wife gets huge props. It was so nice of her to buy you a pipe at all. That is where we can draw some positivity from. And by all accounts she has good taste in pipe aesthetics. That was a really handsome pipe in the ebay listing.
Best of luck cleaning that up.