Local Headshops (Greater Philadelphia Area)

There aren't enough people on this forum from philly to really get opinions.  That and most people on here aren't educated enough to give a rating system that is meaningful.
 
I see this a lot, a person goes to artifax and sees their cheap shitty pieces at somewhat low prices (but way overpriced for shit quality) then they go to a good store and see a fairly priced sov for 800 and think it's over priced.  In reality that shit piece is the one overpriced but it's still cheaper than good quality.
 
Artifax gets a 1.  The only reason they have a 1 is they have a roof so if it's raining you won't get wet.  It's a tiny basement out of the 80's with china glass at stupid prices.  Employees are clueless about glass, ignored me to talk to their buddies and were generally just weird.  It's a highschool crowd.
 
Munchies gets a -5 because they try to rob the shit out of everyone who goes into their shop.  And Uzi either lies or doesn't know his product.
 
I'll pm you, but leave this here to warn others not to shop at these stores.

 

Wanted to check in with you guys, have you been back to Creep Records since we expanded back in April?  We just keep adding stuff and are trying to be really on point with our knowledge.  Always American only where we are and try to be straight up.  Let us know how we're doing! Always looking to improve (especially for the knowledgeable customer!!)

 
 

Wanted to check in with you guys, have you been back to Creep Records since we expanded back in April?  We just keep adding stuff and are trying to be really on point with our knowledge.  Always American only where we are and try to be straight up.  Let us know how we're doing! Always looking to improve (especially for the knowledgeable customer!!)

 

Hi Creep Records,
 
Sorry to say, I have not yet stopped by your shop yet, but I'll have to stop in and check it out sometime.  What artists are you guys carrying?  My issue with a lot of shops in the region and I'm mainly speaking about my experience at munchies and artifax is they tax way too much.  I actually go out of my way to tell people not to shop at these places cause if you don't know glass, you'll get ripped off.
 
When I first started getting into glass, I went to Munchies on south street.  The guy, uzi, says "we have all the best brands, top glass"...I look on the shelf....HVY, SYN, ZOB, Roortech...not bad glass, but hardly the BEST (where's the sov and toros?).  Now, I know roortech is US made and the lampworkers aren't trained by the German house.  I look at the roors and ask the guy "are these german?"  the guy says yes.  American roors aren't made to the same quality as the german tubes, the sigs often look bad, cloudy, they run into the joints, and have poor placement.  He straight lied to my face.
 
So I see a sheldon black bubbler and ask the price, the guy says 600...with a straight face.  This is a simple prodo bubbler..600 is insane.  I tell him, I'm not trying to spend that much, he counters with what about 450.  I left and then found Primal in Springfield.  I saw the same Sheldon Black bubbler...the STICKER price was 250.  The manager tells me he'll give me 10% off it, so I bought it for 225.  Not only did I buy it for 225 (without any negotiation), they asked me to pick out a pack of rolling papers or blunt wraps for FREE, and then they threw in a free lighter, plus a bunch of 10% off cards.  Customer Service.  LOL at munchies...hey UZI, in the past 2 years I've spent well over 10K in glass, but since you wanted to tax me like 400+ on that bubbler, I'll never buy a piece from your shit store.
 


 
Point is, don't rip people off, you never know when you're gonna lose a customer who's willing to spend racks.

 

Totally agree.  We don't do that.  In fact, we just came from the Joe Peters show at Front Street Gallery and bought a couple pieces and we have them out for the price they were listed at the gallery (we got an industry discount).  Point is we look at this stuff as art and accept that things like the Internet exist, unlike some stores.  It isn't always possible depending on where we get the item from, but we try to price very competitively.  We probably have everything you could ever want aside from Toro and Sovereignty.  We're still working on them but we don't want to carry them at an extremely overpriced amount just to be able to say we carry them unlike other stores.  Everything else though should leave you really pumped.  We have stuff:
 
Slinger
JAG
JOP
Zach P
Hops
Snic
Elbo
Germ
Joe Peters
 
Illadelph
Pyrology
Medicali
RooR
Dave Goldstein
MGW
HiSi
 
and many many more.  Stop in!

Oh forgot to mention also, EPIC collection.

 

 
I'll be sure to make a trip to check out your selection of glass....once I have some money to buy glass that is lol.  I bought something from the pipemasters collab show in seattle so I'm a little tapped out atm.  Marcel X Royal minitube  Any week that you get new glass, is a good fucking week in my book.