I have heard from a tobacco shop in North Florida that tinned tobacco sales are prohibited because of tax laws. Is this true? Doesn't sound right to me. Can someone please enlighten me about this?
Florida tobacco laws (tinned tobacco sales)
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Not correct. I have purchased several tins at my local shop.
It's really a shame when someone provides very bad information, whether it's because they are uneducated and uninformed, or they are lying to you and think you are stupid.
This is completely asinine.
The taxes are very high in FL though. For example, a tin that I get could get online for $9 costs $19 in the B&M, but all the extra money is taxes.
My guess is that your local guy doesn't think he can compete selling tins with such a price disadvantage, but he can get bulk tobacco (where the taxes are still the same high rate), but it's harder to compare apples to apples when he buys bulk and gives it his own in-house name.
He just doesn't want to admit that.
Of course, this is just all speculation, but usually if something smells like crap, it usually is crap. Except a Cuban cigar.
It's really a shame when someone provides very bad information, whether it's because they are uneducated and uninformed, or they are lying to you and think you are stupid.
This is completely asinine.
The taxes are very high in FL though. For example, a tin that I get could get online for $9 costs $19 in the B&M, but all the extra money is taxes.
My guess is that your local guy doesn't think he can compete selling tins with such a price disadvantage, but he can get bulk tobacco (where the taxes are still the same high rate), but it's harder to compare apples to apples when he buys bulk and gives it his own in-house name.
He just doesn't want to admit that.
Of course, this is just all speculation, but usually if something smells like crap, it usually is crap. Except a Cuban cigar.
That's what I thought. My mom and sister were doing some Xmas shopping for me (I reside in AK) at a tobacco shop in Jacksonville, and that is what they were told when they tried to purchase a couple tins of tobacco for me.
It sounds like, what he should have said is that tax makes selling the tins prohibitive rather than prohibited. Hope you get what you wanted for Christmas!
I find it very disappointing that a shop would outright lie like that. Why not be honest? Is it really that difficult?
Just shows the politicians aren't the only ones capable of talking through the hole that food comes out of!
If it was your mom and sister - there's the problem. I have been chased out of a tobacco store by shunning or outright rudeness because I was a female in the seekrit wumun hating man-cave. It's the same way in video game shops, and certain liquor stores. That's ok with me - I'll take my money elsewhere.
I think Cyndi hits it on the proverbial head. He lied because he wanted to sell his bulk blends and figured women wouldn't know the difference. Either that or he didn't want their biz at all.
Money has no gender or race but some folks don't understand their own business, or so it seems.
Money has no gender or race but some folks don't understand their own business, or so it seems.
Mac - out of the 15 B&M tobacco stores in my general area, I will only set foot in two of them: Smitty's and Smoker's Embassy. Everyone else acts like I'm some sort of demon come to wreck their "beautiful" stores. One guy even told me "this isn't your type of store. Get out."
It's a shame.
When I worked retail in predominately male interests (motorcycles, automotive, guns), women were among my best customers.
and yeah, comic book shops are WEIRD.
So much more reserved than gutter-dawgs like me was thinkin' (-;
The tax burden as it relates to tinned pipe tobacco is what a local cigar shop told me when I asked why they didn't stock any. They have a few jars of bulks, PS, and McClelland as I recall. Something to the effect that their stock turnover in pipe related goods was simply to slow to tie up capitol in tins.
At least these folks didn't try to BS me with their responses!
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