Our Legal Name is now Pipeshoppe.com

Pipeshoppe.com is no longer Penn Valley Pipes & Tobacco Co. It is now Pipeshoppe.com. If you wish to purchase by check please make the check payable to: Pipeshoppe.com Pipeshoppe.com is a retail division of Grunge Works Studios LLC. Don't worry if you still see Penn Valley Pipes or Penn Valley Pipe Shoppe on our literature and web pages from time to time. It's hard to relinquish the old identity and we are still the same people here behind the scenes.
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Pipe Shows

If you haven't been to a pipe show, we highly recommend you try to attend one. These events are great way to meet pipe makers and pipe enthusiasts from all over the world. Penn Valley Pipes has joined with Old German Clay Pipes for several years with a table at the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors show which is held the first weekend in May each year. Click here to see a list of upcoming pipe shows.
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Cold Snap

I could never figure out why cold snaps but there it is. We can't keep you warm, but what can do is show you we have a warm heart. So this Veterans Day weekend we are giving a 10% discount throughout the store. Use the discount code: COLDSNAP when you checkout to receive your 10% discount. STAY WARM!
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Stripe sucks a big one.

So for the past who knows how many years, we have offered various ways for our customers to pay. We have always relied on PayPal and a few years back we added Amazon Payments. One of the standard payment gateways that are used by our shopping cart program is Stripe which handles credit card payments. For many years our customers have been buying merchandise on our site using this safe and secure payment platform. Well, today we got an email saying that because we sell tobacco our account has been suspended. Perhaps Stripe uses an algorithm to seek and destroy…
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We’re going live with our new shopping cart

We may not have everything in place until around the 4th of July, but we are happy with the way the new site is shaping up. Therefore we have decided to go live June 20. We are knocking $5.00 off any order of $30 or more just for using the new shopping cart. The coupon LAUNCH will be good until June 30th.
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We’re getting there

It looks like we're making progress on the new website. Even if we don't have everything in place before the July launch date, we should be 95% ready. Over the next couple of weeks (mid-June 2014) we will doing some live testing with a limited number products. So stay tuned.
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Welcome to the new website. So What’s new?

We notice that a lot of our customers are coming to us through there mobile devices - phones, tablets, the little screens the NSA puts inside people's shoes so they can see where everyone is, as well as laptops and desk top computers. When we started out around 1998 there weren't many cell phones that could surf the web. In fact a lot of people didn't do much other than chat on AOL or Prodigy. Everything has changed in the short life-time of the 21st century and we kind of figured it might be worth given change a try ourselves.…
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