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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kapnismologist" data-source="post: 69929" data-attributes="member: 487">Makes sense, and I agree to a point. The point at which it changes, however, is at the level of 'collecting'.For those who consider themselves 'collectors' or in the process of 'collecting' (rather than securing tins to 'smoke' as such), the whole thing is very much a game familiar to baseball cards, comic books, trivets, or what have you - in this sense, it is a very different matter than 'profiteering' as such (although it certainly can be). I, for example, very much enjoy collecting and keeping track of values (and sometimes selling desirable tins to others - and I often do not know if they are buying them to smoke them or just put them on the shelf) for the purpose of having enough liquid capital to purchase other, or better, tins to add to my collection. The whole idea of anything 'limited edition' is a major thing to collectors of all types, in my experience at least.While it does happen, oftentimes what I would consider to be a 'collectible' tin is not one which would be on my 'to smoke list'. They are two separate things, usually.I know that many in the hobby consider tin collecting a bit odd (because tobacco is, in the final analysis, a consumable unlike pipes for example), but to each his own I guess.I would say if someone is willing to spend the money, then so be it.</blockquote>