That was a painful experience, not to mention it was really an embarrassment.
Mr T explained that those were "normal" variations, sorry no refund! ( to us all suckers )
Lessons learned!
So now I read “幽默大师” 林语堂的做人准则 , smoking more pipes and only buy my future pipes from the German.
ps:
I was thinking to place a "huge" order for a group of my piper friends here, thank God i did not! Mr D only screwed me on this one purchase, otherwise I would be really screwed.