Esoterica Drop
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There's still tins of Balkan Sobranie available at a couple places. And yes, I saw a tin of Pelican--can't believe it.
ITs around , it came with the last drop in December . Haven’t seen any yet this time
Marscigars had tins for 13 bucks and some change, an hour ago. That's about what tins usually cost.
If I owned a tobacco shop, it'd be hard not to gouge a little on stuff with high demand.. I'm glad they didn't, but makes me wonder what prevents it.
Kingfisher? Huh. I'm well stocked on Esoterica blends, so I didn't even bother to look. I guess I'll try again in 7 or 8 years. The folks I know who've smoked it rate it as middling OK, but I'd still liked to have sampled it myself.
Nice I saw about everything else but not Ramsgate
I found it better than middling OK. ?
So I bought three tins of ET, but honestly, I'm more excited about the three pounds I bought from Watch City today.
Good to know. I'll try again in another 7 to 8 years.
Nothing prevents a B&M from price gouging. You just lose your loyal customer base. No customers equals no business. Plain and simple.
My local B&M decided to price Esoterica and Germain's at secondary market prices. Lost me as a customer.
Why bother supporting a local B&M that prefers to sell to someone across the US by mail order once a year than a local customer that comes in more frequently. To each their own.
I picked up a couple each of Tilbury, Dunbar, and Dorchester. Been a while since I bought any esoterica but they were available at Mars for a fair price so I figured why not. I don't really search out Eso anymore but I do enjoy their Virginia's.
I bought another bag of Pembroke... didn’t see anything else I was interested in...
I placed an Estervals order. ?
Dare I ask--is that it? It's over? Until. . .the next two-six hour window sometime in winter?
Having last bought Esoterica on a regular basis back in that golden age when, yes, gasp. . . tins, even bags if you can believe it, of Penzance and Stonehaven--my own favorites just like everyone else-- might remain openly displayed and available for purchase for months.
Or is this how a "drop" works? . . . with little advance warning, at least as I imagine it, a fleet of unmarked armored Brinks trucks simultaneously pulls up at comparative handful of selected retailers across the continent, and in dead of night unloads the season's small (and somewhat random) stock. And accordingly I must now abandon all hope that a single bag or tin of either of these two might still turn up somewhere over the next few days.
Having last bought Esoterica on a regular basis back in that golden age when, yes, gasp. . . tins, even bags if you can believe it, of Penzance and Stonehaven--my own favorites just like everyone else-- might remain openly displayed and available for purchase for months.
Or is this how a "drop" works? . . . with little advance warning, at least as I imagine it, a fleet of unmarked armored Brinks trucks simultaneously pulls up at comparative handful of selected retailers across the continent, and in dead of night unloads the season's small (and somewhat random) stock. And accordingly I must now abandon all hope that a single bag or tin of either of these two might still turn up somewhere over the next few days.
I was gifted a generous few flake sample from a friend on here. Since I started smoking a pipe it’s never been available.
a nice smooth and dry, earthy VaBur.