McClelland Blends For Sale. Here's Your Chance! Yipe!!

MICHAEL!!!!

Someone is getting a nice present all around the tree!

I think it’s just BULL💩, the price is insane!!! Must admit I have a number of McC tin tobacco’s, was never a big fan......SORRY.....that ketchup/vinegar smell and burning aroma never did much for me. My favorite is their 40th Anniversary and the Frog series. Once a tin is opened I let it breathe for a number of days before smoking.

I know, there are many pipe smokers that love that ketchup/vinegar aroma, but I’m not one of them.

I'm glad I picked up the pipe after McClellend came to an end. If not, I'd have 5100 stashed everywhere in my room. I'm not going to hunt down more once my tiny amount is gone.... especially at the current prices.

I could do a lot more with 5k

I feel suddenly richer.....but not by thousands!

kxg, there would be no secret location for me..it would be the ER after my wife hit me with a cast iron skillet for doing something so stupid!

Sold. Just like that, it's gone. 

Edit: re-listed. 

Or his wife hit him with a cast iron skillet!

If this is the listing you are referencing, it is a new listing - different tobaccos and "only" 73 50g tins + the 4 100g tins.  This was quite the stash!  The seller has been selling single tins - like 5 pages of them - for the last couple of months, looks like all McClelland except a few tins of 2008 Escudo (at over $40/per).  A new car for Christmas?

^ If someone offered me 4,000 to 5,000 for such a stash I would sell it. I have seen each of these tins on eBay start at .99 and reach the per tin price of this large lot. If not for buyers who push the cost of sealed tins to what appears to be "Greedy" prices, this auction and others like them would not work. Have you seen what vintage Balkan Sobranie or still in production Penzance & Stonehaven sells for? Don't blame the seller for a buyer's deep pockets, devotion and/or stupidity😁. Yes there are also folks who set high prices hoping for a sucker though this is not the case with all.

PS McClelland products are selling for crazy money. So I cannot blame others who are asking prices within the commonly sold for price margins. Though I will give to others in need and gift tobacco to friends,I am not a tobacco charity and do not expect others to be one either😁.

Let's keep in mind these are luxury items not necessary for survival. The price asked has also been met by the pure demand of some eBay buyers (As seen in KXG post and how high the .99 cent starting bid auctions have gone.) not simply arbitrarily set price that one must pay or leave empty handed. In other words there are a number of ways to look at this auction and others.

Yeah its more like tripling the price of bottle water before a hurricane or buying up all the generators and selling them at three times the price after the storm. Or like quadrupling the price of a epi-pin.

My offer of a hundred bucks was denied.

Expect to see these on pipestuds site in a few weeks for 2x a much.

I agree.

Plus, it is a luxury item, not like profiteering from bottled water which is a necessity.

I typically never buy vintage tobacco’s because the point of diminishing returns...isn’t worth it to me. I made an exception for a 23 year old tin of Christmas cheer though at my B&M.

They are actually not relisted, at least as far as I can see. This www.ebay.com/itm/McClelland-Tobacco-Co-collection-of-73-50g-and-4-100g-tins-SEALED-UNOPENED/323593657131?hash=item4b57af5b2b
is a second listing by the same seller. The original shows to have been sold with an offer accepted, presumably less than the $4275.

This seller has been selling a whole bunch of single and double tins for the last couple of months. I guess they tired of all the single sales.  
Edit to Note: The seller's "Sold" listings show 217 sales of mostly McClelland, mostly one at a time.