It Must Be Gone: I Got The Last One
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Now I know why I can't get one... sigh. He who hesitates is lost. Or "snooze, you lose!". But at least I know for sure it's all gone and thank jmatt for the hot info. What really jams me up on this one is that I had literally just ordered THREE pipes the evening before I got the email announcing the blend's availability.(exceeding my mandate by about 2 pipes... oops.) I frantically called spc to see if my order wasn't yet so far gone that they couldnt stick two tins of this in my box... you know, all the better to fly it in under the radar, so to speak... better to catch heck for a larger prior crime than tempt the wrath with another non-contiguous one! Alas... spc's service is SO GOOD... always!! So until next time, I guess.
That is a very impressive haul. I ordered 2 tins from SP.com (all I am willing to risk with international shipping), and was waiting for 4noggins to get theirs in stock. Unfortunately they never got any. So I will have to make due with 2.
I love the look of that mountain of tobacco nonetheless!!!
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I love the look of that mountain of tobacco nonetheless!!!
:worship:
So hang on. I don't mean to rain on your parade, cuz I think 1st and last tins are pretty cool to collect. . . but 2400 tins? That's considered small batch? How many pipe smokers are enjoyers of fine leaf besides drugstore blends? This seems like a gimmick to sell out all of the tins.
As I understand some leaf is limited to the crop for that season, similar to the VAs in McClelland's Christmas Cheer, and each year the leaf is different as a result. . . but 2400 tins? That is small batch?
Is this like the boutique cigar limited production runs . . . only . . . . 300 lbs at a time?
As I understand some leaf is limited to the crop for that season, similar to the VAs in McClelland's Christmas Cheer, and each year the leaf is different as a result. . . but 2400 tins? That is small batch?
Is this like the boutique cigar limited production runs . . . only . . . . 300 lbs at a time?
There were a lot of complaints from customers about the first two small batch blends selling out so fast that they decided to ramp up production this time around. Sykes and Jeremy gave wonderful explanations on other threads about this very issue.
Gheesh. 777 tins was too limited and people whined. So now 2400 tins is too many.....and....? What's the proposed magic number for "a Small Batch shall be no less than X tins, and no more than Y tins."
One hogshead of tobacco weighs roughly 1,000 pounds. I'd say a tobacco made from 1/3 of the tobacco from one hogshead from one field, that sells out in half a day, is still a pretty small batch. If they sold this by the 8 ounce tin and numbered them 1 - 600 would that be better? One pound bags labeled 1-300?
In my opinion, by any measure that's a pretty small batch of tobacco.
One hogshead of tobacco weighs roughly 1,000 pounds. I'd say a tobacco made from 1/3 of the tobacco from one hogshead from one field, that sells out in half a day, is still a pretty small batch. If they sold this by the 8 ounce tin and numbered them 1 - 600 would that be better? One pound bags labeled 1-300?
In my opinion, by any measure that's a pretty small batch of tobacco.
A bit less than 300 lbs. I have wondered what makes a small, medium or large run of tins. Anyone in the biz tell us??
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