The Online Pipe Tobacco Cellar is a program created by Jason Newquist, and expanded by Ryan VanderBijl. We are both currently maintaining the software. You can send us feedback, if you want.
What does this site do? Like wine, cheese and people, pipe tobacco changes with age. Generally speaking, people find this change an improvement (referring to pipe tobacco, not necessarily in people ;-). Therefore, many people will keep lots pipe tobacco in a cellar. The Online Pipe Tobacco Cellar helps people track the contents (and age) of their tobacco cellar. If you'd like to read more about the aging of pipe tobacco, please go to The Pipe Tobacco Aging FAQ.
First of all, let's be clear that we aren't trying to gain marketshare or convince of anything. We simply believe that having an easy way to track your tobacco cellar is cool. It's quite possible to do this yourself using paper and pencil (and a calculator), or a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel (which runs on your home computer) or Google Spreadsheets, which runs in your web browser. Both of those things are fine choices!
The reason why you'd want to use this is that all the customization and most of the data-entry has been done for you. So you don't have do type in all those pensky tin descriptions, or figure out how to calculate a tin's age and display it in years and months, and all that stuff. Furthermore, storing your cellar here is a really good idea if you'd like to effortlessly share your collection with the community of pipe-smokers. Building on this, we even have a "for sale" option where you can list those tins you're willing to part with, which the people around the 'net will be able to view.
This site was designed and tested with Mozilla Firefox. If the site doesn't look nice for some reason, it very well might be because of your browser. We *strongly* suggest using Mozilla Firefox for all of your web browsing needs.
We also have a Tobacconist B&M Database available.
Access and use of this site is free. However, if you would like to contribute, we ask that you support the PIF project.
If you create an account on this site, you have a choice if you want to make your cellar "public" or "private". If you say that your cellar is "private", then we'll do our best to make sure that the public isn't able to see it.
Even if you choose to make your cellar public, you can still choose to keep the price / money information private.
If you set the status of a container to be "for sale", then that container will be displayed on the "For Sale" page, along with your name. Doesn't matter what your privacy settings are.
Only users of the system sell the tobacco. This site does not sell tobacco, it only lists tins that other people are selling. Is is the individuals responsibility to uphold any relevant laws concerning selling and purchasing tobacco.
This site is not for sale, and will not sell its information. At least, not unless its for really large sums of money, and definitely not without letting people know first.
This is a tobacco cellar. The information is not sensitive. When you login, your passphrase is sent from you to us in plain text. This means don't use the same passphrase as any other site you use.
Your passphrase can be whatever. Make it as hard or as easy as you want. If it is easy, someone might guess your password and change your cellar contents! You've been warned!
We will not display your email address on the system anywhere. Spam-bots will not be able to determine your email address from this site. The For Sale page will let a potential buyer enter in a message, and the server will email it to you. Until you reply to the buyer, the buyer will not see your email address.
Your cellar information *will* be in included in the site statistics (but if your cellar is private, your name will not be shown beside it).
Although we will do our best to keep the information you want private, to be private, we *do* make mistakes, and it very well may show private information. You can't sue us if we make a mistake because you were warned here. Also, us admins (Jason and Ryan) can and likely will see the information you want to be left private. 'Dems de breaks.