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Arturo Fuente - Do they enforce a lowest advertised price?
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ellabrow Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2013, 10:32 AM EST
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Hey All!

Smoked my first AF 858 Maduro last night and really enjoyed it. Thought about getting a box in the near future and killed a little time this morning by shopping around online.

It seems that AF enforces a lowest advertised price of about $114 per box, which is reasonable, but not fantastic when I can get them for just over $6 at the local B&M store....

SOOO, if anyone has any sources for boxes any cheaper I would love a PM. Think I'm gonna try a AF Anejo or maybe a padron 2000 today. Really wanna try and Padron 26/64 after all my reading and discussion with people in the shop, but am gonna try and hold off for a few weeks till I have an actual special occasion.

Thanks!

Elliot
z6joker9 Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2013, 10:51 AM EST
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PMS. Best I see right now is $95, but I have seen cheaper.
Homebrew Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2013, 8:14 PM EST
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If you like the 858 maddies, you will love the sungrowns. But I only know one regular source, and they don't sell by the box. They go for $31.50 a fiver. I usually buy 5 fivers at a time. Considering how hard these are to find, and how much I enjoy them, I don't mind buying them that way. Speaking of that, I need to stock on up.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)
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#4 Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2013, 8:32 PM EST
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Homebrew wrote:
If you like the 858 maddies, you will love the sungrowns. But I only know one regular source, and they don't sell by the box. They go for $31.50 a fiver. I usually buy 5 fivers at a time. Considering how hard these are to find, and how much I enjoy them, I don't mind buying them that way. Speaking of that, I need to stock on up.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)


Dave - PM sent, found them for 115 per box on the SG.
z6joker9 Offline
#5 Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2013, 8:54 PM EST
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I saw 112 recently on the SG. Love them.
Homebrew Offline
#6 Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2013, 9:32 PM EST
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Thanks Guys.
Might have to really stock up at that price. LOL

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)
ellabrow Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Aug 25 2013, 8:56 AM EST
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Thanks!

Can somebody shoot me a pm and let me know what site SG is?

Thanks,

Elliot
rumraider Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Aug 25 2013, 9:10 AM EST
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Posts: 727
ellabrow wrote:
Thanks!

Can somebody shoot me a pm and let me know what site SG is?

Thanks,

Elliot


Don't know what site he's referencing but SG means sungrown. If you're zeroed in on the cigar you want, just do a search on it an you'll end up getting prices at sites all over the place. Or, you could just ask him to PM you the site where he saw the nice price BigGrin
ellabrow Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Aug 25 2013, 2:06 PM EST
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DUh! I thought SG was a retailer but when I read it again it clearly means sungrown.. What I get for being in a hurry!

Thanks!

Elliot
rumraider Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Aug 25 2013, 4:01 PM EST
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No sweat! Good luck and, if you haven't already, make sure you try a WOAM!
Palama Online
#11 Posted: Sun, Aug 25 2013, 4:41 PM EST
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rumraider wrote:
No sweat! Good luck and, if you haven't already, make sure you try a WOAM!


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Palama Online
#12 Posted: Tue, Feb 21 2023, 1:52 PM EST
Joined: 02-05-2013
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ellabrow wrote:
Hey All!

Smoked my first AF 858 Maduro last night and really enjoyed it. Thought about getting a box in the near future and killed a little time this morning by shopping around online.

It seems that AF enforces a lowest advertised price of about $114 per box, which is reasonable, but not fantastic when I can get them for just over $6 at the local B&M store....

SOOO, if anyone has any sources for boxes any cheaper I would love a PM. Think I'm gonna try a AF Anejo or maybe a padron 2000 today. Really wanna try and Padron 26/64 after all my reading and discussion with people in the shop, but am gonna try and hold off for a few weeks till I have an actual special occasion.

Thanks!

Elliot


Back-in-the-day (…obviously before 2015 and stricter enforcement of MAP…), you could get boxes of 8-5-8 from a very well known auction site for around $90-ish. But what was really strange is that you could bid on 5-packs and get them for even less, per cigar. Once won a bid for $2.20 each!
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