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Quality?
What is it, and is it right for your store?
Is it:
- Fifty pages of new and imaginative designs to keep your cases looking interesting or is it more of the same identical pipes you can get anywhere from anyone.
- Deep stock available for next day shipping or is it the guy who just restocked his van at the port who you won’t see for the next three months.
- Novel applications of technology with costly proto-typing or is it a knock off for a buck less after the fact.
- A 100% guarantee a phone call away or is it the local guy who is always there when he needs you most.
- Amazing new colors & combinations or is it faded, burnt & bubbled.
- Amazingly deep and thick hand worked inside out (double blown) with expansive color or is it just lots of clear glass with a few stringers jammed in and not melted together.
- Crisp, clean patterning or is it muddled, cloudy shmears.
- Interlacing levels of Silver, Gold, Platinum & Copper laid on transparently for maximum color change or is it silver sprayed on so thick and opaquely that the only color change will be from India Orange to Skidmark Brown.
- Strong glass annealed in expensive glass kilns or is it weak unannealed trash that will crack, craze or shatter the first time it is dropped.
- Pre-screened under light and polariscope to detect cracks prior to shipping or is it shipped to you without quality control regardless of functionality, condition or sale-ability.
- Made in the USA with taxes paid in full, or is it cash going back overseas to finance the purchases of Chinese made AK-47’s destined for the Middle East (Customs bust in Miami in early ‘04).
- Domestic manufacturing that pays social security, disability and unemployment or is it imported so that zero goes to pay for your future retirement.
- Fully hand worked or is it imported as a necklace then drilled out and left containing noxious glass dust to be inhaled by you and your customer.
- Choosing Traditional accessories and hanging in there for our customers through thick and thin or is it Contemporary pipes with revolving phone numbers that get disconnected at the first hint of hard times.
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