Sorry Dunhill, I don’t get you…

[georged]

Ray Charles saw that one coming.

That's a visionist remark

 

[jpberg]

That's a visionist remark

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I’m a visionary. Are you mocking my beliefs?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I am perpetually amazed at how people take such offense at how other people spend their money.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

I am perpetually amazed at how people take such offense at how other people spend their money.

Have you met my wife??

 

[Alejo R.]

Whether new or old, refurbed or not this brand is overpriced. Period. But I dont understand why?

Construction? Finish ? The so called oil treatment? I just don’t get it. Sure I’d like to own one but new or old, way, way too expensive for my taste.

I respect those who smoke them. Not bashing the smokers, but as a brand I really don’t understand it.

So why so expensive ?

Two questions.
1) Have you compared a Dunhill pipe in hand against other brands of factory-manufactured pipes?
2) In all other areas of consumption, do you always value the price / quality ratio or is there a product that you know is more expensive but you still consume it?

 

[jpberg]

I still want to know if the OP has a cell phone.

 

[georged]

I’m a visionary. Are you mocking my beliefs?

Uh oh.

Things are gettin' recursively dependent on alternative definitions, now.

Which, I'll have you know, is something my inner being reacts to with anxiety. Almost fear.

You, sir, are coming close to hurting my feelings.

I think it's time to get the law involved.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

I still want to know if the OP has a cell phone.

The OP hasn’t commented on this thread even once, he’s just shit stirring. He kicked the hive, tossed Dong_Meurta in and stepped back to watch the chaos unfold.

 

[mngslvs]

Long ago an eminent WestCoast pipe vendor recommended an old Dunhill shell so strongly that I eventually succumbed. A 1966 shell. That thing had a really strange flavor to it. I don’t think it was a ghost. I don’t know what to call it but I could never get used to the taste so I got rid of it. I have no idea at all whether this particular taste is typical. I doubt it, but it’s been enough to keep me away from old Dunhills, besides the fact that I don’t care to spend that kind of money on a pipe. Just me.

BTW @warren wins the award for typo of the year. :
“A guarantee which allowed me to smoke a few bowels before the return”
No accounting for taste.

 

[jpberg]

The OP hasn’t commented on this thread even once, he’s just shit stirring. He kicked the hive, tossed Dong_Meurta in and stepped back to watch the chaos unfold.

I know. I just want him back so I can kick him.

 

[mingc]

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

In that case, I wash my hands of all responsibility as I sit quietly in the smallest room in my house or office at least 10 mins everyday.

 

[Chasing Embers]

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées


That is one of my most beloved activities! Quiet and alone in a room without the sound of another person. Sadly those moments are few and in between. At least I get to spend the majority of the 12 hours per night that I work alone!

 

[condorlover1]

I thought that quote was attributed to Arnold Rothstein!

 

[mingc]

The OP hasn’t commented on this thread even once, he’s just shit stirring. He kicked the hive, tossed Dong_Meurta in and stepped back to watch the chaos unfold.

Oh, I thought it was @woodsroad. I wouldn't have replied otherwise. I try to not engage with newbies; there's no assurance they'll be around tomorrow.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Don't bother replying to any of Don_Muertos's posts anymore. He's permanently banned.

 

[Puffaluffaguss]

I know. I just want him back so I can kick him.

I was gonna invite him to to sample some home blends I've made. But hey it figures the 1 pipe smoker in a 60 mile radius of me that I know of on this forum had to be the "Great Cornholio" ahhhhh I'm dieing laughing for real.

 

[OSOBUCO]

So why so expensive ?

Because people will and do pay. If people stopped buying them prices would likely drop. That aint gonna happen because luxury markets exist and this is part of that market.

 

[vosBghos]

George the Angler, we call him.

Who knows the vagaries of "value"; it's all subjective. But as my one Dunhill collector pal likes to point out, they hold their value. So, even if you paid too much for one, someone will pay too much when you choose to let it go.

This, practically every nondisposable item I buy I try to get the highest quality, for resale in this life or for my loved ones to sell when they bury me. Buy once cry once is usually the way to go. No sense in surrounding oneself with junk.

 

[MrHowell]

I can tell a difference in my Viking pipe and my Ser Jacopo. Ser Jacopo was about 150 more than the Viking. It’s lighter and smokes better. You do get what you pay for. Just my opinion.

 

[sablebrush52]

This has been an epic and and amusing shit show with overtones of class warfare, populist superiority, and one instance of human self immolation.

All over a brand of pipes. All this proves is the power of the brand.

Dunhill may, or may not, be the best pipes ever made, but they are by far the best known brand of pipes ever made, and the last of the legendary British names still operating. My late father-in-law owned over 900 of them, as well as display cases filled with Dunhill lighters, Dunhill jewelry, Dunhill leather goods, etc, etc. He thought they were "pretty good smokers". I smoked Dunhill pipe for years, traded sketches for them and never paid a lot for them.

Dunhill made a pretty good pipe, with excellent stem work, classic proportions, and detailed blasts. I smoked Dunhills for years and enjoyed them.

But once I started smoking Barlings, the Dunnies went in the drawer. I just liked how Barlings smoked, for me, better.

And that's the point, smoke what you like and like what you smoke. One man's Dunhill is another man's cob, and vice versa.