Tin bids veracity

[HeadMisfit]

Do you trust the people on tin bids selling mylar bags with home made labels. Or tin foil wrapped tins with a mystical piece of tape with hand written product name

To actually have the correct product? I mean if your trying to sell a tin of mylar wrapped 2004 Penzance or dunhill 965

Why not chop the mylar off and show the actual tin

 

[spearheadbill]

All of life is a gamble. It’s not a life savings we’re talking about here. If you’re not happy with a tinbids purchase you simply let them know and they make you whole. If a can of tobacco is too big a risk then someone shouldn’t be in the game to begin with. Cmon man

 

[Tn Steve]

depends on the item and the cost, mystery tinfoil is a no go, a sealed tin of snuff, sure.

 

[Auxsender]

Do you trust the people on tin bids selling mylar bags with home made labels. Or tin foil wrapped tins with a mystical piece of tape with hand written product name

To actually have the correct product? I mean if your trying to sell a tin of mylar wrapped 2004 Penzance or dunhill 965

Why not chop the mylar off and show the actual tin

Do YOU trust a seller that does this?
No one here will give a relevant answer because it’s not our money and we all have individual tolerances to risk.

I would never buy anything on tinbids, because those prices are insane.

 

[Briarcutter]

I would never buy anything on tinbids, because those prices are insane.

I agree. Just a guess but I'd say most of those high prices aren't shipped to the US. Which kind of messes up the pricing. But it's a supply and demand game.

 

[burleyboy75]

Do you trust the people on tin bids selling mylar bags with home made labels. Or tin foil wrapped tins with a mystical piece of tape with hand written product name

To actually have the correct product? I mean if your trying to sell a tin of mylar wrapped 2004 Penzance or dunhill 965

Why not chop the mylar off and show the actual tin

I have bought open/bulk unicorn tobacco from trusted sources, but wouldn't from a stranger on tinbids.

If the price is way below normal, I would take a chance.

Not a big tinbids fan to begin with though. Pipestud is the man for older tobacco. Its harder to get sometimes, but well worth the trouble.

 

[HeadMisfit]

But its funny enough when people try resell 2025 production pipe tobacco at 5 times retail. But when it's some mystery tin or bag with a home made label you have to consider integrity of seller or site

 

[anotherbob]

Sometimes that's the best you can get. I know I don't have any interest anyways on buying unicorns, but some of that stuff only came in bulk anyways.
Though it's not like you can test the stuff.
So bottom line is do what makes you comfortable and if you get burnt taking a risk you can't stomach, that's poor planning.

 

[spearheadbill]

Some guys just can’t contain their envy.

 

[sablebrush52]

Do you trust the people on tin bids selling mylar bags with home made labels. Or tin foil wrapped tins with a mystical piece of tape with hand written product name

To actually have the correct product? I mean if your trying to sell a tin of mylar wrapped 2004 Penzance or dunhill 965

Why not chop the mylar off and show the actual tin

Every purchase of vintage tobacco is a bet on an unknown. Some of the bags and tins of unobtainium will have accompanying statements to the effect that the tobacco has been stored in a climate controlled environment, or some other unverifiable claim.
You make the decision to make the bet. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Play or don’t play.

 

[Dixie Piper]

Do you trust the people on tin bids selling mylar bags with home made labels. Or tin foil wrapped tins with a mystical piece of tape with hand written product name

To actually have the correct product? I mean if your trying to sell a tin of mylar wrapped 2004 Penzance or dunhill 965

Why not chop the mylar off and show the actual tin

I think most of Tinbids is for the Chinese market. China has a major supply/demand issue for pipe tobacco, Cuban cigars, French wine, ect. Ect.

 

[GardenStateoftheArtBriar]

Do you trust the people on tin bids selling mylar bags with home made labels. Or tin foil wrapped tins with a mystical piece of tape with hand written product name

To actually have the correct product? I mean if your trying to sell a tin of mylar wrapped 2004 Penzance or dunhill 965

Why not chop the mylar off and show the actual tin

I wouldn’t really buy shit off tin bid but that’s me

I feel like it was created to sell into the Asian market
There’s plenty of other second hand markets - one being here

 

[GardenStateoftheArtBriar]

Lol shoulda read the post prior to me hounding the keys

 

[anotherbob]

I love tins bids for seeing pictures of weird blends I've never seen before or even heard of.
My favorite thing I saw there was a round tin of Woodbine Cigarettes. It was just such a shockingly vintage thing. Cigarettes solid in tins in big round 100 cigarette tins, cigarettes used to be quality products using quality tobaccos. And at the price it went for each cigarette was only the price of a middle of the road cigar.

 

[Briarcutter]

I love tins bids for seeing pictures of weird blends I've never seen before or even heard of.
My favorite thing I saw there was a round tin of Woodbine Cigarettes. It was just such a shockingly vintage thing. Cigarettes solid in tins in big round 100 cigarette tins, cigarettes used to be quality products using quality tobaccos. And at the price it went for each cigarette was only the price of a middle of the road cigar.

Ever smoke a cigarette from a cutter top? Excellent!!! All cigarettes use to come in tins I believe and I figured that's why there use to so many cigarette cases. I don't smoke cigarettes but those cutter tops are something special.

 

[anotherbob]

Ever smoke a cigarette from a cutter top? Excellent!!! All cigarettes use to come in tins I believe and I figured that's why there use to so many cigarette cases. I don't smoke cigarettes but those cutter tops are something special.

yeah. I thought I'd smoke cigs if they still made them like they used to. Got gifted pretty randomly a few from a cutter top. Reminded me of a good VaOr to be honest, like a really good one.

 

[username]

Only old cigs I've smoked were some camels out of a c ration my friend had. As to tinbids I personally wouldn't buy bulk from it or on here for that matter. A sealed tin yeah I would and have. It's how I was able to try G.l. pease Mephisto.

 

[mingc]

All cigarettes use to come in tins I believe and I figured that's why there use to so many cigarette cases.

That's for rich folks. Poor people bought them one stick at a time when they could afford a pre-roll. One vivid memory I have is from the late 80s when I visited Guyana and a local expressed shock that I could afford to buy and smoke cigarettes a pack at a time. Guyana was then the poorest country in the Americas.

Edit: this triggered a memory from my childhood in Malaysia; I remember now that shopkeepers sold individual sticks from the round tins . . . ahhh, the bad old days . . .

 

[HeadMisfit]

Only old cigs I've smoked were some camels out of a c ration my friend had. As to tinbids I personally wouldn't buy bulk from it or on here for that matter. A sealed tin yeah I would and have. It's how I was able to try G.l. pease Mephisto.

Lol my father started smoking in the 60s via the c ration cigs. I know they really don't make cigs that good now.

 

[Dixie Piper]

Lol my father started smoking in the 60s via the c ration cigs. I know they really don't make cigs that good now.

I cannot speak of cigarettes from decades past but Dunhill cigarettes are worth a try if your a cig smoker.