If you are “thinning the herd,” liquidating an estate or wanting to sell quality pipes for any other reason, please contact me.  I will buy all or part of a collection or will sell pipes for you on a consignment basis on Ebay.  Usually, a consignment arrangement is best for both of us.  If I buy a collection, we both take a risk.  You may sell too low or I may buy too high, resulting in a loss upon sale.  A consignment arrangement distributes the risk between the consignor (you) and the consignee (yours truly).  If you want to sell your pipes outright, I will pay between 40% and 60% of what I estimate the pipe will sell for.

Before listing your pipes for sale, they will each be thoroughly and expertly refurbished, including interior cleaning and sanitization and exterior cleaning. The exterior cleaning includes tar removal from the rim, removal of oxidation from the stem, removal of other grime and the application of several coats of buffed on Carnauba wax.  I also remove tooth impressions from the stem where it is practical and where the value of the pipe warrants the necessary time Between, restoring, photographing, measuring/weighing, listing, packing, mailing and accounting, it’s easy to spend two or three hours per pipe.

I reserve the right to combine low value pipes for sale and to decline to handle pipes that are in very poor condition or low value.

My usual charge for sales on a consignment basis is 30% of the sales price.  There is no additional charge to you for Ebay listing fees, Ebay final value fees or PayPal fees.  For high grade pipes of significant value, I will charge only a 25% fee.  Upon receipt of a group of pipes, I provide the owner with an Excel spreadsheet which lists all of the consigned pipes and then regularly update the sheet as pipes are sold.  I normally pay the consignor his or her proceeds upon sale of all consigned pipes.  However, where a large lot of pipes is consigned, I am happy to make interim payments to consignors.

In general, I will sell your pipes in the order I receive them in relation to those of other consignors.  However, I reserve the right to sell consignors’ pipes in the order that I feel will create an attractive mix of pipes for sale