An old thread, I know, but I've just happened onto it and was educated some more.

We sell Tobacco Pipes, New and estate. Always in our listing header description we use the words Tobacco Pipe, or Tobacco Smoking Pipes. We've done enough research to know that is what people will use in a search.

After reading this topic I did some searches and couldn't believe that firstly we had just two items show up after a gazillion pages, but even worse was all this cheap Chinese junk, before our items, not Tobacco Pipes, but very loosely related to Tobacco Pipes - pipe cleaners, pipe pouches, tobacco related products. Oh, I must admit there was Tobacco Pipes, but nuisance value cheap and useless things for $5 and the like - all Chinese and all pages before our quality and genuine Tobacco Pipes.

So obviously, anyone who is specifically looking for a Tobacco Pipe and uses those words in their search, they're going to be bombarded with all sorts of paraphernalia, not necessarily a Tobacco Pipe.

Gobsmacked - again!!

Melina.