ZRX1200 wrote:The cello was yellowing when I got them from here.
I friend of mine who is a European Wine Snob (actually a well respected wine snob) usually complains that Americans are impatient and only age their wines in the brown bag on the way home from the wine shop - nothing further. The same logic is often applied to cigar ageing. The cigars age in the brown box while in the custody of UPS/USPS and that is all the ageing they receive.
Yellow cello is a wonderful thing. Since these smokes are affordable (avoiding the term "cheap") why not try to purchase two to three times the amount you would normally smoke and give them a chance to improve themselves with a Spanish cedar nap? All you have to do is forget the cigars are there and keep up with your humidor. They improve and smooth out noticeably with a few months age and are seriously better after a year to two years. If you have to smoke them before then, you did not purchase enough of these in the first place.
I do not smoke as many as I used to so that has improved my chances of ageing my cigars - the time has been well worth the effort.