Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Declan Murphy" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: pipe tobacco Date: 5 May 2006 09:31:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1146846698.224313.108350@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> References: <445a095c$0$16322$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net> <1146829403.308717.255980@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.67 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1146846703 28323 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2006 16:31:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 16:31:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Alexa Toolbar),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.215.53.67; posting-account=-TKBDwwAAADHGnl4su1VEeEJSFaZkQzO Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:162786 Michael Cash wrote: > Somebody at work told me just a few days ago about a shop here in > Kiryu which has pipe/cigar goodies. So on Wednesday I dragged wife 'n' > kiddies along and had a look at it. Very slim selection and very high > prices. Generally double to triple what I would expect to pay ordering > from the web. Drugstore pipe tobacco pouches ran 800-1500 yen, and > tins were 1000-1500. Zippo pipe lighters were about 3,500 (compared to > under $20). A $3 folding pipe stand was about 750 yen. Absolutely gunmadicrous. > Their cheapest cigars started at about 1,000 each, with the most > expensive being a Cohiba in what looked like a robusto size at 2,400. "my place" starts at 350 yen. About 50 different brands usually. > It will be a dire tobacco emergency before that shop gets any of my > trade. I doubt that any shop in Japan (or at least one with a reasonable shopfront) would have prices to compete with an reasonably good online store or wholesaler. I like the Nagoya distributor because they add a little extra - especially the "we'll take back anything you have trouble selling" policy. Buying unusual whiskies from the place might also be a contributing factor.