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[Tone-NY]

Well Friday is here and a short work week is ending and the promise of a great weekend. I start the saga off and add a new thread to a incomplete saga. Feel free to add anything I may have missed.

Since we haven't been posting much here figured I'd start it off. Interesting how the month of May bought to our attention the glut of counterfeit cigars and how easily we are lulled into forking our hard earned money to this trade. We had two different streams of confidence type scenarios, the long established cigar member, pillar of the boards and above reproach and the fly by night new person to the world type guy.

The first was really a long term experience; a well known individual with a source for two of the most sought after discontinued cigars. The rumblings were out there as to how could so many of these cigars still exist and the issue of their storage. The source was and is the infamous diplomatic courier who as a source of personal gain had a source for cigars that were stored in a special manner that would note age the tobacco therefore leaving the bands in a pristine manner. Plausible as a reason and accepted over a long period of time the cigars were sold. These cigars were sold at a hefty premium, but not in boxes or with any documentation. The rationale was the way they were stored shrink wrapped in low humidity and low temperature. So over a prolonged period of time the cigars were sold, and resold and traded and gifted passed in box passes and basically all over the cigar community. Quite a bit of money was exchanged in this process, how much no one can be sure, but I’m sure it was in excess of $100K.

Most folks who purchased them did not know what they had purchased other than what the reputation of the seller is/was. He’s a great guy and he is making these cigars available to me, never would I be able to get these cigars in a hundred years. Then folks who would have a hard time forking over $50 for a meal were spending $200-350 for one cigar. Crazy you say? But the list is long and many rushed to get this once in a lifetime offer. Then rumblings started on why the cigars had this defect or tasted so so. Wouldn’t a $200+ cigar be divine? Oh that it was the way they were stored, the pristine bands no that had to do again with the storage.

To be continued

[codeyf]

It's nice to see a cliff notes version of this in the works. Thanks Tone!

[SeeGars]

Ah, so other people microwave their cigars, too.

Cool!

[moki]

SeeGars, on 03 June 2011 - 10:07 AM, said:

Ah, so other people microwave their cigars, too.

Cool!

hrm. Avatars seem to be broken. I shall investigate.

[Tone-NY]

moki, on 03 June 2011 - 10:45 AM, said:

hrm. Avatars seem to be broken. I shall investigate.

Loved that movie, hope they make a sequel!