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mountainman Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 5:33 AM EST
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i couldnt find a tread like this, if there is i apologize but i am still in shock of my find and am really curious if others have had similar things happen to them.

i was at a new shop looking for a few cigars i cant get here yet and got the shock of my cigar career... i found two 1998 partagas decades and then sitting next to them were two macanudo vintage 1988 and one vintage 1984!!!!! this was just some smoke shop that happens to sell cigars... the owner of the shop didnt even know about cigars or what his stock was and i had to search his mixed section for 30 minutes to find all this.

the closest i have come to this before was a shop i frequent every time i am in michigan that lets some rare stuff go for the retail of it when it came out. but i dont think even he has stuff this old in his shop.

what stories do you all have?
kombat96 Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 5:41 AM EST
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Original blend camacho trips maduro 26 total cigars for 102$ out the door.

Honey hole with older stuff to, just depends on what you are looking for.
propeller Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 9:40 AM EST
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There a couple of B&M's in DE that have older cigars that can't be found anywhere. Every time I'm in Ocean City,
MD I drive up the coast and hit these two shops.

Last time I was there in September I left with a box of OR D.P. Blue Generosos from one of the B&M's and a box of OR 601 blue torps from the other. Wish I had more "expendable income"!

There was plenty of this kind of stuff left at both these vendors and I can't wait to make it back!
euodias Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 12:04 PM EST
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Found half a box of dracs and a bunch of tat SW reservas at a local shpo once. never did figure out how they got there.
Buckwheat Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 1:19 PM EST
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Found a mix of Davidoff Millianium Blend cigars on a close out deal (~1/2 price) because the shop was discontinuing carrying Davidoff cigars. Back when I still smoked NCs.
Buddha Daddy Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 3:36 PM EST
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I found a half dozen glass top boxes of Cohibas in TJ! What a score! Very rare as I was told.
deadeyedick Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 8:08 PM EST
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About 4-5 years ago I walked into my local who was the 1st shpo in this area to carry the Tatuaje line back in 2003 and was a good friend of Pete Johnson due to taking that chance.

He had a new cigar that Pete released only 5000 of as a tribute to a friend who had passed away. It was a SW Reserva with a Maduro wrapper. There were 6 boxes and after smoking one I went back and bought 4 boxes. Most of those were either gifted or sold at cost to others here who could not find them anywhere.

Think I still have a small amount of those and they are the best cigar Pete has ever made IMO.

DED
DCLover Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 8:27 PM EST
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^ One of my singular favorite smoking experiences, thanks to AR.
charliebarr Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 8:42 PM EST
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There is a shop in Greensboro ,nc,...that someone..pmed me about for the christmas AF 10 stick set that stocks,opus,anejos,etc.very rare find especially given prices I got on said sticks...If anyone is ever in that neiborhood hit me up ill pm #.....,
namadio Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 8:46 PM EST
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charliebarr wrote:
There is a shop in Greensboro ,nc,...that someone..pmed me about for the christmas AF 10 stick set that stocks,opus,anejos,etc.very rare find especially given prices I got on said sticks...If anyone is ever in that neiborhood hit me up ill pm #.....,

What kinda price?
charliebarr Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 9:24 PM EST
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On the holiday AF box he replaces the 2 sungrowns with anejos as he said they always did in the past.......but 10total sticks that wasv129$...my local shop charging 120$with the sungrowns...as it come this year...so bout the same....but his opus line starts at 14$ a stick and I have never even seen in town here ...and md..atleast 30$+++++ as far as the anejos I believe 14$ which again never seen locally though around the forumns from wat ive seen that should be good price.....I really wanna get box set as I never tried an anejo....or an opus...so gonna try to order before they all gone........
robertsccr5 Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 9:29 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
About 4-5 years ago I walked into my local who was the 1st shpo in this area to carry the Tatuaje line back in 2003 and was a good friend of Pete Johnson due to taking that chance.

He had a new cigar that Pete released only 5000 of as a tribute to a friend who had passed away. It was a SW Reserva with a Maduro wrapper. There were 6 boxes and after smoking one I went back and bought 4 boxes. Most of those were either gifted or sold at cost to others here who could not find them anywhere.

Think I still have a small amount of those and they are the best cigar Pete has ever made IMO.

DED



O rly???
charliebarr Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 9:51 PM EST
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By the way Dc lover thx for tip on that lil store..they seem like good ppl..im gonna try to order AF box. Tomorrow....
illinichaser Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Dec 30 2014, 10:04 PM EST
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charliebarr wrote:
By the way Dc lover thx for tip on that lil store..they seem like good ppl..im gonna try to order AF box. Tomorrow....



Should have know Greg would send you their way. . .



Greg you still workin on a job?
deadeyedick Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 9:23 AM EST
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DCLover wrote:
^ One of my singular favorite smoking experiences, thanks to AR.


Yep. AR was one of those that bought from me. Glad to hear he spread them around.

DED
DrMaddVibe Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 9:43 AM EST
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A ceramic jar of Montecristo Delecroix original editions hiding on a shelf at a very famous Tampa tobacconist!
DCLover Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 12:46 PM EST
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illinichaser wrote:
Greg you still workin on a job?

Apparently Ethan didn't quit as expected. I haven't been hounding them lately.
illinichaser Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 12:52 PM EST
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DCLover wrote:
Apparently Ethan didn't quit as expected. I haven't been hounding them lately.

That's too bad.


We ought to meet up one of these days. . .
DCLover Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 1:00 PM EST
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Sounds good to me.
charliebarr Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 1:13 PM EST
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Hey has either of you nc guys been to colliseum billiards...used to b off of fla. Ave?right close to the mall there?I built a Zumiez and a footlocker at Greensboro 2year ago used to hit that pool hall daily...basically local dive,but frikin wild place for sure...The owner eddie garris I believe is right really very good guy as were most all the ppl there......anyways they had some trouble their and closed I believe...but in 45 yrs is still probably my favorite city I worked in...got 2 guys close to there still work for me ....Damn I miss that pool hall.....hopefully I get back down there in next several months.....
DCLover Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 1:21 PM EST
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Can't say I've heard of it. Neither of us live in Greensboro, just buy some cigars there.
charliebarr Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 1:54 PM EST
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It was worth a shot...again really cool place. But is now closed.....
charliebarr Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Dec 31 2014, 2:04 PM EST
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Just checking around today for something different for tonight ran into a shop in martinsburg wva...king street coffee and tobacco. That has atleast 15 different opus sticks,anejos. And get this reatail pricing...starting at 9$ and up...I may have found heaven...they even have kona 100percent at 30$ lb...so im prob gonna be sippin some goodass coffee and trying my first cpl opus sticks....very nice place.....
zody Offline
#24 Posted: Sun, Jan 4 2015, 2:23 AM EST
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charliebarr wrote:
Just checking around today for something different for tonight ran into a shop in martinsburg wva...king street coffee and tobacco. That has atleast 15 different opus sticks,anejos. And get this reatail pricing...starting at 9$ and up...I may have found heaven...they even have kona 100percent at 30$ lb...so im prob gonna be sippin some goodass coffee and trying my first cpl opus sticks....very nice place.....


Garb em!! If you find a shpo that doesn't gouge prices on Opus and Anejo's splurge and grab what you can. If you don't like them I would be more than happy to take them off your hands Herfing
MikeNice81 Offline
#25 Posted: Sun, Jan 4 2015, 10:10 PM EST
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I walked in to a tobacco shop that was closing out their cigar section. I picked up a box with about ten random sticks in it and asked the pricing. The guy said, "give me twenty and you can have the whole box." I wasn't smoking cigars at the time. So, I gave the whole box to my uncle asa birthday gift. I don't remember what was in the box, but my uncle swore it was about $120 worth of sticks.
leftyposthole Offline
#26 Posted: Mon, Jan 5 2015, 3:09 PM EST
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3or4 years ago found a shop that had a box of T52 pigs and another that had about 40 original DPG El Centurians, great finds
Palama Online
#27 Posted: Sun, Jan 29 2023, 12:02 PM EST
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I got nothing but mebbe some of you can add to this thread?
ZRX1200 Offline
#28 Posted: Sun, Jan 29 2023, 12:24 PM EST
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I got some Nosotros on close out at the best shpo in Portland years ago when I met Elkhunter. Locally one shpo had problems moving the AF Holiday boxes so they started selling all the individual cigars @$10/ea so I grabbed all the Opus and Anejo (they were DC size I believe). another local shpo had a a quarter box of Centurions and El Ray de Los Habaos both OR for $6/ea but many had cracked wrappers. Still smoked great though. Same shpo also had old Perdomo cardboard 4 Ct boxes of ESV Maduros for $19 sent more than a couple of those out.
corey sellers Offline
#29 Posted: Sun, Jan 29 2023, 12:35 PM EST
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No shpo around me , so nothing here
Sunoverbeach Offline
#30 Posted: Sun, Jan 29 2023, 12:59 PM EST
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Best of done is to find decent smokes at similar to online pricing. Anything rare has been priced like it's rare
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#31 Posted: Sun, Jan 29 2023, 1:26 PM EST
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Found some Henry clay tattoo a while back. Still kicking myself for not buying the other box they had. Went back waaay to late someone else had bought the last one. I still have just a couple. Excellent cigar
LeeBot Offline
#32 Posted: Sun, Jan 29 2023, 5:43 PM EST
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^You hooked me up with one of those. It was good.
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