Pipe Tobacco Market - A Play in One Act

[Terry Lennox]

A park bench. Two middle aged men seated. One sips coffee, the other scrolls his phone.

Pipe Smoker: I wish you people would support the hobby and keep these legendary much loved blends in production.

Tobacco Executive: Trust me, we would if the sales were higher. But too few people buy them with any regularity.

Pipe Smoker: What do you mean?

Tobacco Executive: Do you know how tiny the hobby is? How are we supposed to make blends that just sit on a shelf for a year before some newbie decides to try it.

Pipe Smoker: But that's not true. People love their favorite blends. They buy as much as they can get.

Tobacco executive: Oh really? Let me ask you when's the last time you ordered your favorite blend?

Pipe Smoker: Oh, my cellar's full. I stocked up during the last panic. I don't need to buy any more. I'm set for life.

Tobacco Executive: See, that's the problem. Our best customers now have more than they even need!

 

[AcesAndEights]

Is that why all you veterans kept “advising” us newbies to buy, buy, buy!?
Ha. Just kidding. So glad I bought all I did over the last three years.

 

[Brendan]

Best part is in a few years the guys with lifelong cellars can sell the discontinued stuff on tinbids and make more profit margin then actual tobacconists..

 

[Sigmund]

If I were to venture to guess (Yes, that is next), I would say bulk tobacco is likey the biggest threat to a lot of the industry and if they could end it they would. It works great for small batch blenders...not for giant corps. The whole EU buys tinned prices at prices that cannot be discounted (no bargain sale promotions).

In lots of the EU it takes some work to obtain good tobacco, not just cash. It takes a lot of slow and steay buying to stock up on anything and we will never be close to what US customers have. As a result, I would almost bet that the market is healther as shops and companies need continued infusions of cash. The system here is rigged to prevent someone from saying hmmm "Id like to buy 5 pounds of X blend".

Im not saying its better. Im just illustrating a point. Also at 250 a Kilo its cost prohibitive. Some of the tad orders I see would cost a rent check here.

 

[MavErik]

The most frustrating thing that I have found recently is broken pipe families are selling the briar and trashing the tins. They believe the but the tobacco is worthless. I have came across this several times just recently. I have no idea how to stop it, but it almost brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

The most frustrating thing that I have found recently is broken pipe families are selling the briar and trashing the tins. They believe the but the tobacco is worthless. I have came across this several times just recently. I have no idea how to stop it, but it almost brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.

If I pass away and leave tobacco behind, I'm 100% sure my family will toss it - can't imagine why they'd be bothered with trying to figure out what to do with it.

 

[Elric]

If I pass away and leave tobacco behind, I'm 100% sure my family will toss it - can't imagine why they'd be bothered with trying to figure out what to do with it.

I've arranged for another forum member to take it and do as he pleases.

 

[Sigmund]

I’m gonna be more pissed that Im dead.

 

[Elric]

I’m gonna be more pissed that Im dead.

Nah. We weren't too inconvenienced before birth.

 

[Chasing Embers]

If I pass away and leave tobacco behind, I'm 100% sure my family will toss it - can't imagine why they'd be bothered with trying to figure out what to do with it.

Other than picking out a few pipes as keepsakes, that's what I've told my family to do with mine.

 

[sablebrush52]

Best part is in a few years the guys with lifelong cellars can sell the discontinued stuff on tinbids and make more profit margin then actual tobacconists..

I'm on the fence about TinBids after reading their terms, but may try them. More likely, I'll rent a table at a pipe show and sell stuff. Or, I might not do anything and let the chips fall where they may. I've included information in my will about the disposal of my collection, but if my beneficiaries are too stupid or lazy, well, I'm DEAD and don't give a shit.

 

[telescopes]

If I were to venture to guess (Yes, that is next), I would say bulk tobacco is likey the biggest threat to a lot of the industry and if they could end it they would. It works great for small batch blenders...not for giant corps. The whole EU buys tinned prices at prices that cannot be discounted (no bargain sale promotions).

In lots of the EU it takes some work to obtain good tobacco, not just cash. It takes a lot of slow and steay buying to stock up on anything and we will never be close to what US customers have. As a result, I would almost bet that the market is healther as shops and companies need continued infusions of cash. The system here is rigged to prevent someone from saying hmmm "Id like to buy 5 pounds of X blend".

Im not saying its better. Im just illustrating a point. Also at 250 a Kilo its cost prohibitive. Some of the tad orders I see would cost a rent check here.

Open a B&B where the currency is pipe tobacco tins, LOL.

 

[Terry Lennox]

I'm on the fence about TinBids after reading their terms, but may try them. More likely, I'll rent a table at a pipe show and sell stuff. Or, I might not do anything and let the chips fall where they may. I've included information in my will about the disposal of my collection, but if my beneficiaries are too stupid or lazy, well, I'm DEAD and don't give a shit.

The table at a show idea has always interested me. Could sell my pipes there too if I'm no longer smoking. The only issue is it does not give you access to the Chinese buyers who drive up TinBids prices. The TinBids process is pretty great. Buyer pays shipping. The system creates a label for you etc.

 

[JOHN72]

I already have the final list for my funeral at the cremation ground. My best pipes, a rotation of 5 tobaccos, lipstick for cold weather, some pills for mites, a lighter filled with gas, some Tuscan cigars, some earplugs, and finally, a kerosene lamp for reading.

 

[sablebrush52]

The table at a show idea has always interested me. Could sell my pipes there too if I'm no longer smoking. The only issue is it does not give you access to the Chinese buyers who drive up TinBids prices. The TinBids process is pretty great. Buyer pays shipping. The system creates a label for you etc.

Chinese buyers show up at pipe shows and spend money.

 

[huntertrw]

Pipe Tobacco Market - A Play in One Act​

"Once upon a time, the end."

 

[Elric]

"Once upon a time, the end."

Yeah, but there is a lot of fun after the comma and before the end.

 

[Lees65GTO]

I guess I had better close my selling account on TinBids and hold on to my cellar for now.