This site is run by someone I know personally, and he is a great guy in my book. He had a table in Chicago right near me as well.
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Are people actually paying those prices for 8oz of tobacco? Jesus Mary and Jospeh...
If I am willing to pay 200 for X tobacco , and I bid that … the price rises Automatically until your bid surpasses my initial bid
To each their own but i kind of hope this isn’t one of us ?. Though i have a guess as to which one it is ? 
I disagree. Not so much… plenty of big prices thru multiple public websites . I am a stock market guy , markets guy by profession , this is true price discovery . Supply and demand amongst the general population. Not equal but it is a free market. ?
Nope not gonna go starting rumors, just have to read posts and pay attention and make educated guesses. lol It's only up for 24 hours so I'm guessing it's a test / are there any whales with too much money out there auction.
Ehh, the site has been up for 3-4 weeks I am pretty sure. , I was on Tinbids before it was a thread on this site.
While I love Pipestud, the best and most dominant consignor of aged tins. , I have sold over 10k in pipes thru his services , I really do like him and will use again. But his consignment tobacco prices are fixed (and in my opinion artificially low ) I was actively trying to buy some of his stuff this last weekend , MCC 27 and 40th, sold out in seconds.
why not have an auction site for that type of stuff ?
I want to invest directly into Tinbids . I think it’s a winning strategy, in these insane times . people willingly will pay more than what you think for any tobacco and what you think it is worth. .
It’s reality , hate it , love it , these are the days of our lives .
Yes if you have a lot of tobacco to sell Steve is great, guaranteed to sell in one minute, but they reason is they are sold at a fair value, the other end of the spectrum is 4Nog where some of the prices are insane and project sits for weeks or months even, in the end it's nice to have lots of options so all the bases are covered.
Hard to say. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lurkers, many overseas, who look at the forum. Tinbids has been around for a while. Visibility is key.
People are paying that and one hell of a lot more. I bought the stuff to smoke, not to sell. But I could be persuaded...
Don't really think they expect it to sell, but god only knows, there's a lot of knuckleheads with a lot of money, is it any worse than paying 2500 for a brand new box of cohiba lanceros and plenty of knuckleheads are doing that lol
Im beginning to think I could be persuaded as well. For those prices, I'd sell a couple 8oz bags of esoterica and go commision a pipe or two and stock up on some tobacco.
Just kind of in awe. Especially seeing later Esoterica bags fetching those prices.
The real question is is when does the market have enough, do the prices hold like this or is there a limited market, with Habanos they have billions of people in China clamoring for Cuban Cigars, but pipe tobacco might be different at least for now, really hard to tell, don't want to miss the boat, but then as they say with vintage cigars "they don't roll those anymore", same with some of these tobaccos you have to assume that as it ages it get's more valuable, then again some of those prices are for fresh bags, that's the crazy thing to me.
One difference between this site and a regular auction house, Tinbids has no provisions I could find for collecting sales tax, which suggests that the seller will be liable for paying them rather than the buyer.
I have little faith that any of the commerce flowing through the site will not have to be reported in one way or another. If there is some language regarding this, and I missed it, I'd like to know where to find it.
I have little faith that any of the commerce flowing through the site will not have to be reported in one way or another. If there is some language regarding this, and I missed it, I'd like to know where to find it.
I have a feeling that the sales tax is figured and charged when checking out like other sites, they are using payment systems and that is usually almost always part of the check out process, so they are collecting it from the buyer and paying it, sales tax isn't going to the seller.