Samuel Gawith Drop is on at SmokingPipes

[folkleaf]

Is $25 the regular price for Cabbie’s?

no, i think it was in $15-$20 last time. I could be wrong.

 

[Pypkė]

I was on SP putting together an order when I got tossed into the waiting room. I was wondering why when the email alerts started coming in on my phone. I added 8 oz. of St. James Flake to the order I was preparing. Been waiting for that one for a while.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

The site was down as it sometimes is when these drops happen. I called the office and made a purchase the old fashioned way. SP.com is still great with customer service as far as I’m concerned. ️

 

[FLDRD]

The site was down as it sometimes is when these drops happen. I called the office and made a purchase the old fashioned way. SP.com is still great with customer service as far as I’m concerned. ️

Strangely, that's never crossed my mind when I've been on the holding pattern........

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Strangely, that's never crossed my mind when I've been on the holding pattern........

It almost always works for me. ️

 

[Tn Steve]

Turns out mobile devices will not get through the que. Pc got right in, but far too late.

 

[tmc]

Turns out mobile devices will not get through the que. Pc got right in, but far too late.

I was able to get through the queue on my mobile at 11:30.

 

[ziv]

I don't need more tobacco... I don't need more tobacco...

 

[Tn Steve]

I was able to get through the queue on my mobile at 11:30.

I started at 9:08, then switched to pc about 11:30, maybe it was good timing.

 

[tmc]

I’ve had mixed success in the queue for past releases—always on my phone. I’m typically too late to the party on these unannounced restocks. I think I just got lucky today.

 

[RL Bucktails]

Wanted to get a bit of Cabbie's as well. I love SP, but allowing people to buy 25 tins at a time means that the pipe tobacco hoarders, scalpers and walking dead scoop up the inventory to the detriment of sp's wider customer base. Indeed, SP can conduct business as it wishes and selling the product is, of course, the ultimate business goal but it seems penny-wise and pound-foolish to not expand the customer base and, instead, have what can only be a small minority of said customers to monopolize and hoard the products.

Agreed 25 tins is just stupid.

 

[Tn Steve]

It was nice to see tinbids get restocked , while I waited for 6 months and got nothing

 

[sablebrush52]

Agreed 25 tins is just stupid.

It's their duty to feed TinBids.

BTW, even if you missed out on something, check with your local B&M, check other sites. I found online sites to be a very mixed bag, since word always leaks out days or weeks before a drop. The cool kids get the tip, and the rest do not.

Mostly, I bought the really hard to find stuff from B&M's, while reading complaints and whining about missing it on an online drop.

Figure it out.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

It's their duty to feed TinBids.

BTW, even if you missed out on something, check with your local B&M, check other sites. I found online sites to be a very mixed bag, since word always leaks out days or weeks before a drop. The cool kids get the tip, and the rest do not.

Mostly, I bought the really hard to find stuff from B&M's, while reading complaints and whining about missing it on an online drop.

Figure it out.

Not too many convenient B&Ms in my location. I put in a notification and an email popped up. Just happened to be available when it was sent. Called and ordered a few nice blends and had no problem. To your point, B&Ms are definitely a good way to acquire tasty stuff when you’re late to the game on their notifications. ️

 

[blametony]

I agrees 25 tins is way too high of a limit. Should be 10 per person.

 

[blametony]

FYI, A friend told me about the drop earlier this morning and I went to their site and purchased with no delay. The emails went out about 12 minutes after I was done with my order.

 

[Searock Fan]

Wanted to get a bit of Cabbie's as well. I love SP, but allowing people to buy 25 tins at a time means that the pipe tobacco hoarders, scalpers and walking dead scoop up the inventory to the detriment of sp's wider customer base. Indeed, SP can conduct business as it wishes and selling the product is, of course, the ultimate business goal but it seems penny-wise and pound-foolish to not expand the customer base and, instead, have what can only be a small minority of said customers to monopolize and hoard the products.

Most people use the word "hoard" like it's a bad thing. I'm not sure, but I would guess I have enough tobacco "hoarded" to last me at least 5 years at my present rate. I don't consider it hoarding, but rather a hedge against inflation and tariffs. Simply a good investment.

 

[dottlejockey]

Most people use the word "hoard" like it's a bad thing. I'm not sure, but I would guess I have enough tobacco "hoarded" to last me at least 5 years at my present rate. I don't consider it hoarding, but rather a hedge against inflation and tariffs. Simply a good investment.

I guess the way i smoke - with lots of blends open at a time in small jars available for immediate consumption on the smoking shelves - that a tin count of 10 per blend is cellaring relatively deep. I'm only about 5 or so tins deep on some of my favorites. If, on the other hand, a person only smoked a handful of blends, then my idea of a 10-count limit would be restrictive. I have some favorites that are hard to find, but that just means i dip into those jars a bit less than the blends that are readily available. Will keep me happy enough for my lifetime.

 

[Oddball]

SG usually has two drops a year, like Germains, Late Spring and Late Summer. That's the track I've noticed the last few years since the covids.

 

[sablebrush52]

Not too many convenient B&Ms in my location. I put in a notification and an email popped up. Just happened to be available when it was sent. Called and ordered a few nice blends and had no problem. To your point, B&Ms are definitely a good way to acquire tasty stuff when you’re late to the game on their notifications. ️

When I lived in Burbank, the only B&M that carried a wide range of pipe tobaccos was Tobacco Trader, about 25 heavily traffic congested miles away in West Los Angeles.

At that time I was looking to score some Esoterica. Some, but not all, B&Ms carry major amounts of it when there's a drop. They're like hubs for a drop. I found a place in Colorado that was a major drop point. I became a regular remote customer, buying all kinds of tobaccos and other things from them. I got to know the owner and we got to the point where 90% of the call was just friendly chitchat. Occasionally I would send them a gift of something special that I had that they did not, like HU Director's Cut, or a tin of pure blending Syrian Latakia.

When a drop was imminent, they would call me to ask what I was looking for and they would set it aside for me if it came in. I paid normal retail, about $30 for an 8 ounce bag, while people were complaining about not finding it online, or getting gouged.

Worked that way for years, and I have a good stock of it, now nicely aged, from before Esoterica went to hell around 2020-21.

My "local" B&M was a thousand miles away.

Now that I live in Southern Oregon, the local B&M with any real pipe tobacco is only 280 miles away. But, I've bought more than I'll likely live to smoke, mostly due to cutting way back, so it doesn't matter to me.

My experience is that B&M's, where ever they are, are the way to go if you're looking for "hard to find" stuff. You just have to be a "regular" customer.