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Will we see tinned Amphora? Seems expensive for pouched
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<blockquote data-quote="KevinM" data-source="post: 454941" data-attributes="member: 2318"><p>Enhanced revenue and cash flow is my guess. The seller can charge more per oz of product for the smaller package and the buyer has to replenish his / her supply more often. This combines for more optically pleasing financial records. There's also buying habits to consider. I'd guess that many pipers like a change now and again -- notice the sheer variety of Tobaks on the e-retailers' menus -- and the availability of smaller packages encourages this, even though the novelty of sampling is not a thrifty buying strategy. Thrift, shmift, many pipers like to try the new offering everyone is buzzing about. If you buy a 1.5 oz package of a touted artisan blend and don't like it, you can toss the rest and have lost only the price of a couple burgers and fries at McDs. I'd opine that tubs of the geezer blends -- say, PA, CH, Granger -- are the exceptions to the above, because they are the preferred smoke of many pipers who may be strongly motivated by thrift, much less so by novelty. Us geezers would be astonished if PA would try to boost its prices and present itself as an artisan blend meriting a premium price. It's a predictable, satisfying smoke, that won't leave bystanders choking or the piper reeling about on a Nic high. A tub of it is an "honest friend" to be enjoyed before an open fire with a book that's not to new. (Obviously, I don't think the phrase "geezer blend" is a pejorative, and often recommend them to new pipers who may find something to like there.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KevinM, post: 454941, member: 2318"] Enhanced revenue and cash flow is my guess. The seller can charge more per oz of product for the smaller package and the buyer has to replenish his / her supply more often. This combines for more optically pleasing financial records. There's also buying habits to consider. I'd guess that many pipers like a change now and again -- notice the sheer variety of Tobaks on the e-retailers' menus -- and the availability of smaller packages encourages this, even though the novelty of sampling is not a thrifty buying strategy. Thrift, shmift, many pipers like to try the new offering everyone is buzzing about. If you buy a 1.5 oz package of a touted artisan blend and don't like it, you can toss the rest and have lost only the price of a couple burgers and fries at McDs. I'd opine that tubs of the geezer blends -- say, PA, CH, Granger -- are the exceptions to the above, because they are the preferred smoke of many pipers who may be strongly motivated by thrift, much less so by novelty. Us geezers would be astonished if PA would try to boost its prices and present itself as an artisan blend meriting a premium price. It's a predictable, satisfying smoke, that won't leave bystanders choking or the piper reeling about on a Nic high. A tub of it is an "honest friend" to be enjoyed before an open fire with a book that's not to new. (Obviously, I don't think the phrase "geezer blend" is a pejorative, and often recommend them to new pipers who may find something to like there.) [/QUOTE]
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