Smokingpipes.com will give you purchase credit on a percent of their assessed value
of your pipes. This can be used for buying anything on the site including
tinned tobacco, and a good selection of bulk as well. Or they will pay cash, but at
a much lower percent. They resell these as estate pipes, so they can't use low-end
or burnt out pipes. But if you have some mid-or-better level pipes that just don't
suit you, you can use your pipes toward tobacco. I don't know of anyone else doing
this, though I'd be interested to hear about any others. I don't think my tobacconist
chain or my independent pipe shop can do this. It's too labor intensive to renovate
the pipes and retail them as estate pipes. You get an offer from SMC, and you can
take it or leave it. On two occasions they've been generous enough to close the deal
with me. I just don't want to keep pipes that I don't smoke. I've never just thrown a
pipe out. I've found "homes" for them one way or another. See smokingpipes.com
for all the details.