Re: Good Briar Block Selection
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:50 pm
Shut up about Calabria Pipe, Scott - that's a secret!
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You're secret is safe... Unless things have changed it's almost impossible to order from him! Althought that adventure was 12 years ago! Translation issues, weird wire transfers, diasasterious hassles, and then an unexpected customs bill!! I did get decent briar, but man did I work for it!!!Sasquatch wrote:Shut up about Calabria Pipe, Scott - that's a secret!
I bought from Yazid a few weeks ago. Lots of difficult communication, weird pricing, ...Jeff_Grivers wrote:Thanks for the info and the heads up about the Yazid situation. Maybe i wont take the chance. I actually had already found the Calabria site like a year ago and have it bookmarked. Prices were kind of high for single blocks they had shown but man were they nice. Only thing is pretty much every block shown is sold out and nothing new has been posted for some time. I will most likely stick with Vermont Freehand. I have had great experiences in dealing with them and I pretty much get all my briar and rods from Steve now so why mess up a good thing.
Massis wrote:I bought from Yazid a few weeks ago. Lots of difficult communication, weird pricing, ...Jeff_Grivers wrote:Thanks for the info and the heads up about the Yazid situation. Maybe i wont take the chance. I actually had already found the Calabria site like a year ago and have it bookmarked. Prices were kind of high for single blocks they had shown but man were they nice. Only thing is pretty much every block shown is sold out and nothing new has been posted for some time. I will most likely stick with Vermont Freehand. I have had great experiences in dealing with them and I pretty much get all my briar and rods from Steve now so why mess up a good thing.
He did send out the blocks before payment. They arrived and are a lot smaller than expected, qualitywise they look pretty much like what I paid for.
However when I paid he got angry, because I transfered the agreed amount, but paypal obviously keeps a percentage in fees, so he wanted me to transfer more money to cover the fees. A scammy move, and I told him no, he kept insisting and eventually I sent him half the fee, just to shut him up (was €4 or something like that, I just couldn't be bothered with him anymore)