Wall of Shame - Seller's Remorse

[Dshift]

Have you ever sold a pipe and immediately regreted it? Of course you have... But how often did that feeling last for months, maybe even years?

Let's have this thread decorated with our own tears and regrets, in the hopes that one day it could save someone from the same faith!

 

[Dshift]

Let me be the first, with two of my biggest regrets - a Peterson's Sports 4 and a Peterson's Sports 6

 

[FLDRD]

I haven't.
But it likely will.

 

[Dshift]

Do not despair, sometimes there is light at the end of the tunnel..
I managed to buy the 4 back and it just arrived.

 

[Waning Embers]

Have you ever sold a pipe and immediately regreted it?

Never sold one but never regretted throwing them away. Once they no longer suited my liking or they had flaws that I couldn't abide by they were tossed. I'd mourn lost tobacco but never the implements used to smoke it.

 

[Dshift]

Never sold one but never regretted throwing them away. Once they no longer suited my liking or they had flaws that I couldn't abide by they were tossed. I'd mourn lost tobacco but never the implements used to smoke it.

You can't imagine, how much this bothers me.... I love giving a second life to these old and often forgotten relics of past craftsmanship. You sound like you are treating them like the plastic wrappers that plague the modern world....
Tobacco turns into dust after it is smoked and it's gone... until you buy the next tin, that's the same as the one before it.

 

[Auxsender]

You can't imagine, how much this bothers me.... I love giving a second life to these old and often forgotten relics of past craftsmanship. You sound like you are treating them like the plastic wrappers that plague the modern world....
Tobacco turns into dust after it is smoked and it's gone... until you buy the next tin, that's the same as the one before it.

Are you going to be ok?
Do you need a tissue or a hug?
Buck up, big guy!
Turn that frown upside down.

 

[Waning Embers]

that's the same as the one before it.

That's how I've seen pipes. In three decades I chased the notion that one would smoke differently than another but never found one that did. Much of my cellar however are discontinued blends.

 

[Sig]

Ive only sold one pipe.
That was to a member here recently.
It is a great pipe, but not my style, no regrets.
But, a cow ate one of my GBD 9456 pipes. It was one of the best tasting pipes I ever had....the cow must have agreed.
And I left a 1971 birth year Dunhill on a table at my nieces house after a party. When I called her, she was watching her kids burn the garbage from the party. They just rolled up the paper tablecloths into balls, and into the fire.
And I have regretted not buying pipes when I've seen them. I've been looking for one of those huge Danish Brandy shaped pipes like WO Larsen makes. Ive waited too long several times and lost out. They dont come around often. There's just something about that shape that tickles me down deep. This bottom one is actually for sale...like 395 foreign squiggly symbol dollars. Off to buy a pipe maybe.

 

[crazyhog]

I haven't ever regreted selling any of my pipes. Unfortuately, Ive regreted purchasing a few.

 

[The Benedictine]

You can't imagine, how much this bothers me.... I love giving a second life to these old and often forgotten relics of past craftsmanship. You sound like you are treating them like the plastic wrappers that plague the modern world....
Tobacco turns into dust after it is smoked and it's gone... until you buy the next tin, that's the same as the one before it.

 

[Waning Embers]

Unfortuately, Ive regreted purchasing a few.

I understand that one completely!

 

[seanv]

Have you ever sold a pipe and immediately regreted it? Of course you have... But how often did that feeling last for months, maybe even years?

Let's have this thread decorated with our own tears and regrets, in the hopes that one day it could save someone from the same faith!

Haven't regretted selling any yet. I had a few in my to be sold pile that I am glad I reconsidered though.

 

[mingc]

You can't imagine, how much this bothers me.... I love giving a second life to these old and often forgotten relics of past craftsmanship. You sound like you are treating them like the plastic wrappers that plague the modern world....
Tobacco turns into dust after it is smoked and it's gone... until you buy the next tin, that's the same as the one before it.

He also throws away his iPhone when the battery stops holding a charge! OK, I made that up.

 

[skydog]

As others have mentioned, I've regretted a few that I didn't buy. I really haven't sold that many compared to all the ones I still have. A few I've sold have found their way back to me but they weren't keeping me at night for having let them go in the first place.

 

[Waning Embers]

He also throws away his iPhone

Never found the desire to own one but I do throw out androids when they quit working or won't charge.

 

[sablebrush52]

Never sold one but never regretted throwing them away. Once they no longer suited my liking or they had flaws that I couldn't abide by they were tossed. I'd mourn lost tobacco but never the implements used to smoke it.

You can't imagine, how much this bothers me.... I love giving a second life to these old and often forgotten relics of past craftsmanship. You sound like you are treating them like the plastic wrappers that plague the modern world....
Tobacco turns into dust after it is smoked and it's gone... until you buy the next tin, that's the same as the one before it.

Embers' attitude toward the disposal of his pipes is singular, especially when I see what exquisite taste he has shown in choosing pipes for his collection. And as someone who has salvaged many vintage pipes I also understand Dshift's take.

But Embers' pipes are HIS and what he chooses to do with them is also HIS concern.

I've sold a number of pipes, and have never felt any regret. I've also given away a number of pipes and have no regrets there either. The pleasure others have gotten from those gifts outweighs any other concern.

I have only one regret, which is a "one that got away" about 15 years ago, a cased mint set of Barlings from 1915, my father's birth year. When I realized just how much I was bidding against a determined adversary, I decided not to counter his final bid and left the rat bastard hanging in the upper stratosphere.

Still, would have been nice to have had that set...

 

[Waning Embers]

Embers' attitude toward the disposal of his pipes is singular

A few of us here actually. @warren and @burleybreath come to mind. @burleybreath IIRC and I both threw out Baki meerschaums due to disfavorable airflow.

 

[burleybreath]

A few of us here actually. @warren and @burleybreath come to mind. @burleybreath IIRC and I both threw out Baki meerschaums due to disfavorable airflow.

Heh. True. I could have sold it somewhere, but didn't want to inflict it on someone else.

 

[khiddy]

Never found the desire to own one but I do throw out androids when they quit working or won't charge.

Nothing personal, but you’d have been better off just tossing that android before you bought it.

Having spent last evening fiddling around with my elderly mother’s android phone which had become overrun with adware and malware in an attempt to unbollocks it, I have confirmed my educated opinion that android is inferior to iPhone, especially for non technically-savvy users (such as my mother). The sheer amount of popups that I had to wade through to do anything, combined with the way-too-many options presented in the settings app with zero indication of what they would do, reiterated that android is a soviet-style knockoff of a useful and thoughtfully-designed operating system, designed by engineers who never talk to non-engineers. And I am a former software QA analyst who has built my own computers from scratch that run Linux.

A pox on the house of android.