Is it getting harder to find Cigar Box Guitar-sized cigar boxes?

I buy a lot of cigar boxes from a number of wholesale sources, including a couple of the biggest online and mail-order cigar companies in the country. Just last week a shipment of 5 pallets of empty boxes arrived, about 1100 total boxes, and I just finished looking through all of the cartons to see what I got. I also smoke the occasional cigar, and go into cigar shops semi-frequently, both to get a cigar or two and see what empty boxes they have on hand.

Based on all of that, I am seeing a trend away from the wider, flatter boxes that we prefer for guitars. The trend these days seems to be towards the boxier, cube-like boxes. A few years back when I got a big batch of cigar boxes in, I would expect 2/3rds (about 67%) of them to be usable for guitars. Lately, that percentage has dropped to 50% or even lower. Out of this last batch of 1100 or so boxes, I estimate that about 500 of them are guitar-sized. The rest are too small, boxy and cube-like. The big suppliers just send whatever they have, they don't let me pick and choose sizes and styles. Of course, I am paying the same price for every box I buy, regardless of size, so as this percentage becomes less favorable, the prices I have to charge for the guitar-sized boxes goes up.

From what I have seen, the cigar brands that still seem to be cranking out the preferred box styles are as follows:

• Paper-covered MDF: Arturo Fuente (the Double Chateau, Churchill, Selection Privada, Chateau Fuente, Queen B and King B are favorites of ours), Punch, Macanudo, La Gloria Cubana, Romeo & Julieta, Partagas, H. Upmann, and a few others.
• Plywood/All-Wood: Arturo Fuente (Some of the Hemingway line, and the high-end Opus X lines), Punch, some Drew Estates, Ashton, Oliva, Rocky Patel, Brickhouse, Miraflor and a few others. 

Data from the CDC and elsewhere isn't showing a big drop-off in cigar smoking - that seems to be holding fairly steady. But cigar manufacturers seem to have discovered that the more cube-like boxes are more economical than the older style of wider/flatter boxes.

Of course some of the smaller boxes can be used for instruments... amplifiers, ukuleles, diddley-bows and dulcimer-style instruments, kalimbas for the thinner ones. They can also be used for other crafts, like purses, clocks, jewelry boxes and the like. But the fact remains that the boxier boxes are harder to make effective use of, and tend to pile up.

At the C. B. Gitty headquarters, we have several thousand of these smaller boxes around the place, and I'm looking into creative ways to be rid of them - selling lots of them cheap on eBay, trying to move pallets at a time of them via Craig's list, and more. Haven't had a lot of luck so far, but here's hoping. If you have any ideas (or want a few hundred yourself at a good price) let me know!