Firebird Flake Release Must Be A Success
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The majority of their customers aren't the smoke one tin of a blend per year variety. Most of their special releases are gone within the first hour. The best way to keep a blend like that available is to keep it as quiet on forums as possible. More non members read these pages than members.
Maybe because…
- They don’t want to piss off their largest customers
- They make more $ per tin on multi-tin sales
- They want to sell it all
I'm kinda curious to see if any will pop up on the resale market, and for how much. It was similarly happening with Analogue's releases. They would have a new drop, sell out quickly, then you'd go on eBay to find numerous listings asking twice the price.
It will be listed on tinbids in a week.............. I don't know what price, but look at all the 2024 Cringle Flake on there.......
I agree. It would give more folks a chance to try it. I also missed out.
See, what Cringle release was it, last year, or perhaps '22, there were still tins sitting at online retailers for quite a time after it released. This year it was gobbled straight up and now on the secondary market.
Have you not tried Steamworks?
And CLEARLY you haven't tried 4th Gen 1931 Flake "Erik Peter's Blend", which, for anyone who has, is the obvious and deserving winner of Best Blend of 2024!
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I would also hazard a guess that some of these scalpers probably don't even smoke a pipe.
probably true.............. we're in the "GiG" society/workforce now........... people will make a buck where they can. I don't like it, but I can respect it......
Limiting it to 2 or 3 tins, they will sell it all and more people will get the chance to try it. I have no problem with them making money. My guess is, though, their largest customers are resellers trying to flip it.
Either way, doesn't matter...probably the last time I personally try to get a special release. I'll stick with my always available blends.
Yeah, didn't care for that one and I love orientals.Have you not tried Steamworks?
Jeebus that went quick. I was going to pick up a tin of Firebird Flake tomorrow when I got paid, but apparently all 5,000 tins sold within the first 2 hours. FOMO fever sure has been in full swing in the pipe tobacco world ever since the shuttering of Mac Baren and Sutliff! 
To be fair, if they limited the tins to 2 or 3 we’d all be complaining that it wasn’t enough to get free shipping.
Bummed I missed it this one sounded pretty tasty. If its not exorbitant I might have to try my hand at tinbids but I also have enough stuff I like that I'll probably survive. I'll just complain a bunch.
I’m with you. It isn’t as if you are going to discover your new go-to tobacco in a limited release blend.
That said, I also sympathize with folks who are really angry about this. I remember being quite petulant when the limited edition Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader with perique sold out before I could buy a tin. Firebird Flake is actually rather more special than that Squadron Leader. I can make Squadron Leader with perique. People who missed Firebird can’t get their hands on the same VA and Oriental leaf in that blend.
I was interested in picking some up but there’s no way I was waiting 45 minutes.
I checked back a few times over a couple of hours, but I wasn’t going to work a refresh button like an idiot pulling on a slot machine as if it were a pump handle. I’d have really felt like a schmuck then.
After sniffing around for this earlier and realizing it isn't to be, i simply grabbed a few more off my dwindling "to try" list. So no biggie...on to the next beloved blend in the cellar or upon the shelf. Congrats to those who wanted it bad enough to go through it to get it! May it be a worthy smoke. 
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