Where do you purchase the majority of your pipes, tobacco and paraphernalia?
Where Do You Buy?
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Just due to lack of options, the answer is definitely online.
I make a pilgrimage to my fine local independent pipe shop several times a year to buy at least bulk tobacco, a tin or two, pipe cleaners, and the occasional pipe. The trouble is, I am an untiring deliberator in buying anything, but certainly pipes, so I have to visit an online site maybe a dozen times or more over weeks or months before I finally decide in many cases. Between this need to think and re-think every purchase, the ease of online shopping is a inescapable, despite the pleasure of a real shop. Further, I am not putting the online retail computer to any discomfort or stress that a living human being might experience watching me examine the pipe wall for the fourteenth time. The owner at the pipe shop once asked me if I saw anything I liked (among the pipes), and I responded that I was looking for something I didn't like.
Pretty much always online. There's only 1 quality B&M near me (Bennington's in Sarasota), and it's in the middle of a major tourist trap. When I travel for work, though, I always try to see if there's a B&M nearby, and if so I'll check it out.
For me...well being majorly paralyzed...and half blind...for some dumb-assed reason they balk at giving me a driver's license - go figure. So the only way to feed my habit is online.
I have never owned a new pipe, hence mine all come from fellow pipers or mostly ebay.
Nothing near me in Jersey for B&M...On-Line for me.
95% online. With 120% tobacco taxes in AK its purely a financial decision. Well that and the fact that our B&M has about 1% of the selection that online retailers do (for 2.5x the price).
I try to support the B and M when I can but with only a few blends and overpriced pipes its tough. I mostly buy cigars there just to try to support them.
I try to support the B and M when I can but with only a few blends and overpriced pipes its tough. I mostly buy cigars there just to try to support them.
I have to travel an hour to the nearest B&M, and pay triple/quadruple the price.....no thanks. Online here all the way
I throw business at my local B&M but for the most part they just don’t have the selection I’m cellaring.
SPC, tobaccopipes.com, Cup O’ Joes, and Mars Cigar. P&C unfortunately off the list for a bit while they get things turned around. I have confidence they will.
SPC, tobaccopipes.com, Cup O’ Joes, and Mars Cigar. P&C unfortunately off the list for a bit while they get things turned around. I have confidence they will.
I have more pipe tobacco than any bricks and mortar store on my island. It’s online or nothing.
95% online. I'd buy much more at a B&M if there were any nearby.
No B&Ms near me.... I wish there was. I would support them. Consequently, I am 95%+ online.
Pipes are purchased exclusively from store fronts. Blends and "stuff", from whomever has what I need. Lighters from mall kiosks, grocery/drug stores, and store front vendors.
I don't need pipes and only shop when in Chicago, London or some such. If I see something I like, it passes inspection, I might buy it.
I don't need pipes and only shop when in Chicago, London or some such. If I see something I like, it passes inspection, I might buy it.
Online by a not so great margin. Last two pipes I bought last year I got from my local tobacconist. In my case, it's a matter of principle to support him since he's been buying and selling the pipe stands I make like pancakes.
No B&M close, all tobaccco on line. Pipes, what I smoke are only available from a time machine...
For every hundred bucks I spend online, I probably spend twenty at a local b&m. Online is certainly cheaper, but the unicorns hang out at the b&m. Plus, I buy 90% of my pipe cleaners at b&m stores, so it's a mix of both for me
That too. I buy all my cleaning accoutrements at my B&M.
Cigarbid has the best deals I’ve found for Tins if you’ve got the patience. $4-7. I ordered a stanwell black and White Dublin and a Vermont freehand Morta. Paid about $35 for them. They’re $110 and 140 on pipes and cigars, smoking pipes. But if I want specific items, Those two aforementioned sites. Searching eBay and other places for a freehand I’ve yet to save the $ for. Kids cost a lot.
Here's a new twist: I made a last minute trip to the southern Twin Cities metro today and stopped into a small cigar shop/lounge I have never visited. The guy working told me they stopped selling pipes and most pipe tobaccos recently because the city (Burnsville) passed an ordinance that prohibited pipe smoking in cigar lounges. -???-
All they had were 2 oz bags of four tobaccos: golden Cavendish, black Cavendish, black and gold Cavendish mixed, and "creme cocoa." $9.70 for 2 oz, which is actually cheaper in MN than a 1.5 oz pouch of Captain Black (which can run $15-20). I picked up two bags to keep my aromatics in stock. I'll probably get more next time I'm around.
All they had were 2 oz bags of four tobaccos: golden Cavendish, black Cavendish, black and gold Cavendish mixed, and "creme cocoa." $9.70 for 2 oz, which is actually cheaper in MN than a 1.5 oz pouch of Captain Black (which can run $15-20). I picked up two bags to keep my aromatics in stock. I'll probably get more next time I'm around.
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