Ardor pipe prices?

[nogbert]

im curious to know the cheapest pipe line affered by ardor.

a local pipe shop has many Ardor pipes, all rusticated with the "ninfia" silver spigot army mount....

they are $85-95 each.... this seems very very very low to me for an ardor.

any ardor experts here want to weigh in?

 

[Ocelot55]

That sounds like a great price to me. I haven't seen a new Ardor under $100 in quite some time.

 

[Smoker99]

No expert, but I have never seen an Ardor anywhere near that.

 

[SpeedyPete]

I've never seen an Ardor for less than $300.00 !!

At $100.00 I would also like to buy one :bounce:

 

[riff raff]

I've never heard or seen a $100 Ardor. Pix or it never happened! <g>

 

[Harlock999]

You should buy all of them at those prices.

 

[Anonymous]

Keep checking around.

Sometimes budget lines are well made & of good briar, but with cosmetic flaws.

Other budget lines can be thrown together in a hurry, with bad drilling/fitting, cheap cast stems with pinhole airways &c as a result.

Get your first one with an unsmoked return guarantee and take it from there.

:face:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

That price sounds too good to be true... caveat emptor, but worth exploring, if ya ask me. 8)

Definitely check them thoroughly.

Post pictures.

8)

 

[puros_bran]

Ardor attempted to reposition themselves closer to Castillo 6? 8years ago?
I don't know what's happened to people memory but it used to not seem so odd to.find.sub $100 Ardor.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Why are they expensive now?

 

[puros_bran]

Because Ardor woke up one day and decided they were as good as Castello and raised their prices.. I shizz you not...

 

[DrumsAndBeer]

Doesn't every Ardor come with a giant gold chain and a pinky ring?

 

[kaiser83]

I have to admit at that price I'd be grabbing one also. I can't find one near that cheap either. Hope they are still there when you make it back to the store.

 

[Zeno Marx]

If they have a 305 shape (full bent ball) or a chubbed out rhodesian, I'd pay you a nice finder's fee. (given that they aren't in the atrocious Meteora, or like carved, finish).

 

[Harlock999]

Because Ardor woke up one day and decided they were as good as Castello and raised their prices.. I shizz you not...

Sounds entirely plausible.

 

[docwatson]

I'm sure you can find an online retailer for price comparisons. I know personally that the Ardor Ninfea pipes with silver spigots are exceptionally great pipes ( on the small side of group 4) and are not inexpensive by any means. I would jump at those pipes pronto at those prices, those are less than wholesale!!!

 

[Smoker99]

The one and only Ardor I have is a limited edition 2004 pipe I bought at a pipe show, and they were high priced then. Definitely $250 and up, mostly up.

 

[mattia76]

"Doesn't every Ardor come with a giant gold chain and a pinky ring?"


HA!

indeed.

 

[lestrout]

nog - what was the outcome of the <$100 Ardors?

hp
les

 

[nogbert]

I actually never bought one. I was at that store recently and they still have them! i came here to double check if i had ever posted about it or not.... seems like i might have a new pipe pretty soon

once i pick mine up i'll post pics

the only flaw i could see when i was there was that the silver was a bit tarnished, and there were some very very minor dings around the rims of some of the bowls.

for those that are interested (if my memory serves me) they had:
2 straight dublin style
3 straight pots
and 1 bent tulipy looking shape all in this line.

Also in my original post i said they were $85-95 but i was mistaken, they are actually $105. Still very cheap as far as i can tell