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As far as learning current values for pipes and tobaccos you can follow the twice weekly vintage tobacco sales at pipestud.com. Also there's a site called tinbids.com that features auctions of tobacco tins.
If you're divesting yourself of starfucker blends, McClelland, Esoterica, Balkan Sobranie, etc, prices are pretty good, starting at about $25 an ounce and going up from there. Non starfucker blends with some years on them, MacBaren, Rattray's, etc will have appreciated, just not as much. And as always, certain blends are more in demand than others. PIpestud's site will give you a picture of what tobaccos sell and for how much.
To get an idea of pipe values you can look at various estate pipe sites, like Pulverspriorbriar.com, BrairBlues, Blue Room Briars, etc and put some time into following auctions on eBay. One useful eBay tool is the advanced search option where you can look at all auctions over a period of several months of a specific make of pipe, which should also help you get a sense of what the market will bear. RIght now it's a pretty buoyant estate market. For example, high quality Britwood is getting quite respectable prices at the moment probably about a 30% rise over the past two years. If the economic fecal matter hits the spinning blades, estate pipe and tobacco prices will plummet, just as they did in 2007-8.
As for selling here, there are posting and activity requirements for sellers and buyers to qualify. They're pretty minimal, but they're there because people abused this site in the past and ripped off a number of members here. People who ignore the guidelines and end up getting fucked have only themselves to blame.
