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tripleguy Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2017, 7:41 PM EST
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Haven't bought any smokes for a few months and am surprised to see my favorite value smokes (5 Vegas) are up in price quite a bit from where I was able to snag them 6 months ago and beyond. Anyone else notice prices seem to have gone up from same time last year? Usually I'll notice a slight run up in auction prices in spring/summer as outdoor smokers go back to smoking. This year, it seems a little early. I would say in general, I'm seeing prices up $8 - $15 a box from what I paid this time last year. Bad timing?
mikey1597 Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2017, 7:49 PM EST
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CBID is not selling the crappy interweb low quality cigars anymore and the words out.
elRopo Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2017, 8:15 PM EST
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Global warming
elRopo Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2017, 8:15 PM EST
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RTFWP
frankj1 Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2017, 10:11 PM EST
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tripleguy wrote:
Haven't bought any smokes for a few months and am surprised to see my favorite value smokes (5 Vegas) are up in price quite a bit from where I was able to snag them 6 months ago and beyond. Anyone else notice prices seem to have gone up from same time last year? Usually I'll notice a slight run up in auction prices in spring/summer as outdoor smokers go back to smoking. This year, it seems a little early. I would say in general, I'm seeing prices up $8 - $15 a box from what I paid this time last year. Bad timing?

I'm just glad i didn't hold my breath waiting for you to post.
ZRX1200 Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2017, 10:27 PM EST
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You PAY for cigars???

I get a monthly allotment for schill bidding and platinum membership.
namadio Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 2:30 PM EST
Joined: 11-24-2014
Posts: 1,621
tripleguy wrote:
Haven't bought any smokes for a few months and am surprised to see my favorite value smokes (5 Vegas) are up in price quite a bit from where I was able to snag them 6 months ago and beyond. Anyone else notice prices seem to have gone up from same time last year? Usually I'll notice a slight run up in auction prices in spring/summer as outdoor smokers go back to smoking. This year, it seems a little early. I would say in general, I'm seeing prices up $8 - $15 a box from what I paid this time last year. Bad timing?


Also prices do seem to go up as weather gets warmer. If I were you I'd go buy cigars somewhere else. If we can't increase supply, lets kill demand!!1
tripleguy Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:06 PM EST
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Wow, tough crowd. Ask a legitimate question and all the rapier-like wit is on display. My kind of place! I'll have to make sure to come back here in another 6 years. Sorry I haven't been posting as frequently as some of you, I'm a busy man. I've been in prison and internet access has been spotty at best. When I do get access, I'm either corresponding with my attorney or working on getting some more prostitutes from Russia lined up for my next business venture once I'm out of the joint. Give me a few months - I can hook you up. Oh, I RTFWP and that's why I'm asking the folks here at MENSA. It was no help.
tonygraz Offline
#9 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:10 PM EST
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They have been easy on you so far. Oh, prices are up- nobody is buying any more.
tripleguy Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:18 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
They have been easy on you so far. Oh, prices are up- nobody is buying any more.

OK, now that makes sense. No one is buying at an auction so prices are naturally up. Got it.Wink
elRopo Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:18 PM EST
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Life in the slam just ain't what it used to be I guess. This place is pretty FUBAR since the "improvements" to the site took place.
tripleguy Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:41 PM EST
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Life in the slam isn't bad. The balloon boys keep me in crank and I get gars rationed to me on a fairly consistent basis. I know nothing of improvements or how this place was. The bidding process looked a little wonkey to me though. In one instance a lot I was watching was won B-4 the close date. What's up with that? How do you win an auction B-4 the close date and still have it show up in your watched lots?
gummy jones Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:43 PM EST
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Aliens
elRopo Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:48 PM EST
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It was prolly a Quick Buy auction. You can buy the item for a set price before it closes.

They did an "upgrade?" to the site on Feb 10th and ever since its been FUBAR.

The FOG's are holding off buying until things return to normal.
RMAN4443 Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:49 PM EST
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tripleguy wrote:
Life in the slam isn't bad. The balloon boys keep me in crank and I get gars rationed to me on a fairly consistent basis. I know nothing of improvements or how this place was. The bidding process looked a little wonkey to me though. In one instance a lot I was watching was won B-4 the close date. What's up with that? How do you win an auction B-4 the close date and still have it show up in your watched lots?

A quick buy auction will close if someone bids the full quick buy amount
I'm pretty sure if you add an auction to your watch list it will stay there until you remove it
RMAN4443 Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 6:51 PM EST
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elRopo wrote:
It was prolly a Quick Buy auction. You can buy the item for a set price before it closes.

They did an "upgrade?" to the site on Feb 10th and ever since its been FUBAR.

The FOG's are holding off buying until things return to normal.


whooooppppps great minds and all that stuff
Mr. Jones Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 7:12 PM EST
Joined: 06-12-2005
Posts: 19,423
It
Is

RICH
MUDDER-*****ers
From
The

FBI-SSG DIVISION
BIDDING WITH MY $1+ MILLION
THEY STOLE FROM MY H.U.T.
tripleguy Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 8:50 PM EST
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Posts: 62
Now see, that wasn't so hard. I learned a lot today - thank you everyone. Site's been updated, FBI MUDDER-*****ers *****ed the place up, you can get free cigars if ya blow a guy named Schill Bidding, global warming is real and it's caused by aliens, and my prison buds got nothin on youse guys. Piss on the Quick Buy. If you can buy it, it's not an auction. By the way, my post total should now be 5 for those of you who are counting. 5 posts in 6 years. Another way of looking at it is I've posted 4x today what I posted in the first 6 years of being a CB member. So *****in there.
gummy jones Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 9:06 PM EST
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At this rate you will steal hanks crown as postalottamus by noon tomorrow

Careful what you wish for
usafvet509 Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 9:34 PM EST
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I did get the item I won, when it said, and what it said. I must be lucky lol. Hopefully, everything gets straightened out for all
elRopo Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 9:42 PM EST
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The abuse will continue until such time that you are deemed worthy.
It will then become even more personal and humiliating.
Just our sick way of having fun around here.
Welcome to the nervous hospital!
KingoftheCove Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 9:45 PM EST
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Prices are up. Activity is up.
Here, and at the other place.
Spring and Summer approaching......... causes an annual spike in action and prices.

And, we might be seeing some early stock piling of certain boutique blends that may not be around in a year or so when the regs kick in.
RMAN4443 Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 9:46 PM EST
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elRopo wrote:
The abuse will continue until such time that you are deemed worthy.
It will then become even more personal and humiliating.
Just our sick way of having fun around here.
Welcome to the nervous hospital!

We're not worthy........Wayne's World......Party Time!
Choooch Offline
#24 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 9:58 PM EST
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Well Cinderella, I think you found your slipper. You fit right in.
frankj1 Offline
#25 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 10:40 PM EST
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Choooch wrote:
Well Cinderella, I think you found your slipper. You fit right in.

should we post bail?
Choooch Offline
#26 Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2017, 11:14 PM EST
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Let's bust him out!
nkelly57 Offline
#27 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 3:49 AM EST
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seems ever since the upgrade was done, prices have gone up quite a bit. Many of the lots are bid on by the same bidder ???
tripleguy Offline
#28 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 7:49 AM EST
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So inside job, eh? CB bidding up their own auctions to put more $ in their wallet. Brilliant! Swisher Sweets it is for a while unless I can get the balloon boys to try and get some sticks in the joint. Its not easy I hear - good chance of breaking them on the way in and on the way out. Be careful how you sit.
tonygraz Offline
#29 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 8:30 AM EST
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So that's how you smuggle them.
namadio Offline
#30 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 9:58 AM EST
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gummy jones wrote:
At this rate you will steal hanks crown as postalottamus by noon tomorrow

Careful what you wish for


postalottamus-rex.
Stinkdyr Offline
#31 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 11:20 AM EST
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tripleguy wrote:
Wow, tough crowd. Ask a legitimate question and all the rapier-like wit is on display. My kind of place! I'll have to make sure to come back here in another 6 years. Sorry I haven't been posting as frequently as some of you, I'm a busy man. I've been in prison and internet access has been spotty at best. When I do get access, I'm either corresponding with my attorney or working on getting some more prostitutes from Russia lined up for my next business venture once I'm out of the joint. Give me a few months - I can hook you up. Oh, I RTFWP and that's why I'm asking the folks here at MENSA. It was no help.



Give us the details of your many crimes, so that we Mensa folk can judge you further. Then we will make
recommendations. And don't bother with the old, "I swear I am innocent, wrongly convicted, I was framed, etc"
We botls see right thru that.

fog
tripleguy Offline
#32 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 11:58 AM EST
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A number of years ago, I was wrongfully convicted of practicing medicine w/o a license. I was a physician specializing in breast reduction techniques. 99.9% of the time, after a thorough comprehensive exam, I was able to assuage a woman's concerns and get her to see what a mistake it would be to mutilate her perfectly good, wonderfully large breasts. The times I couldn't, I would issue a referral. There was one patient's case that proved most difficult and lead to my undoing. You've probably heard of former tennis star Simona Halep by now. She was tired of lugging those huge breasts all over the court and came to me for a reduction. I tried to get her to see that doing so would be a huge mistake, but I approached it from the wrong angle. Instead of focusing on how her desirability would be affected by cutting down on her obvious assets, I should have determined that instead, her gsme would go to chite. It did, she sued for malpractice, I technically had no practice and the rest as they say, is history. Google before and after shots though and tell me I didn't warn her.
elRopo Offline
#33 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 12:13 PM EST
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So, in other words you got "busted" for mishandling her assets?
Messed up world we live in.
If you had amputated her legs she would have had no standing to sue.
jacquesemo Offline
#34 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 7:50 PM EST
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There is a special going at one of the other "family" companies of cigarbid on 5 vegas May want to take a look Looks like someone felt your pain
opelmanta1900 Offline
#35 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 8:02 PM EST
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Mmmmm, 5V's... Chinese tobacco at Mexican tobacco prices...
tripleguy Offline
#36 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 8:57 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Mmmmm, 5V's... Chinese tobacco at Mexican tobacco prices...


Sorry, I just spit Courvoisier all over my Ralph Lauren pajamas when I read this. I didn't say I smoked them - I'm a cigar snob just like you. I use them as sex toys when the boys from the next cell block over come by. Wouldn't want to waste a good Ashton on a night of mud slinging if you catch my drift. Love
elRopo Offline
#37 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 9:45 PM EST
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What are you, some kinda jailhouse hooker? Courvoisier and Ralph Lauren? I guess some o them mandingos pay pretty well for the right biatch? Don't sound like you got it so bad.
Mr. Jones Offline
#38 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 9:54 PM EST
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Posts: 19,423
Hey...

Tripleguy...

If an FBI-SSG FIELD SUPERVISOR AGENT NAMED
GARY O'CONNER
ever arrives to your "place".....

SHIV HIS AZZ ....R.E.A.L. GOOD... :):):)

then send me his FAT AZZ bald scalp
and his ear with the 3 carat diamond in the lobe...

I'll make it worth your while and free CIGARS for
Life...
elRopo Offline
#39 Posted: Thu, Mar 30 2017, 10:15 PM EST
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Uhmmm.... Jones? are you okay?

Might wanna think about deleting your last post. It sounds kinda like a solicitation for something illegal?
Choooch Offline
#40 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 12:56 AM EST
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Breast reduction? I'll take the leftovers
tonygraz Offline
#41 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 3:07 AM EST
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Wanna be even more of a boob ?
tripleguy Offline
#42 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 4:43 PM EST
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Posts: 62
Mr. Jones wrote:

If an FBI-SSG FIELD SUPERVISOR AGENT NAMED
GARY O'CONNER
ever arrives to your "place".....

SHIV HIS AZZ ....R.E.A.L. GOOD... :):):)

then send me his FAT AZZ bald scalp
and his ear with the 3 carat diamond in the lobe...

I'll make it worth your while and free CIGARS for
Life...


Shiving is so 90s. Ricin is the way we roll these days.
elRopo Offline
#43 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 7:47 PM EST
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tripleguy wrote:
Shiving is so 90s. Ricin is the way we roll these days.

Ricin beans go well with enchiladas.
tripleguy Offline
#44 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 7:50 PM EST
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elRopo wrote:
Ricin beans go well with enchiladas.


Yep, you know it. Used to get them all the time at Pollos Hermanos. Nice joint.
elRopo Offline
#45 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 7:52 PM EST
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tripleguy wrote:
Yep, you know it. Used to get them all the time at Pollos Hermanos. Nice joint.

Lol! The Chicken Bros.
frankj1 Offline
#46 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 9:11 PM EST
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tripleguy=magwitch
KingoftheCove Offline
#47 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 9:29 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
tripleguy=magwitch

that would be............................................................................awesome
tripleguy Offline
#48 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 9:38 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
that would be............................................................................awesome

Who is this magwitch of which you speak? Is there another on this forum who needs to reinforce the crotch of all his pants with leather? If so, I must meet him someday and commiserate about the burden of lugging around a big schlong all day. Does he perchance have a brother, Maglite?
elRopo Offline
#49 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 9:42 PM EST
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No but I do believe he spent some time in a Turkish prison.
KingoftheCove Offline
#50 Posted: Fri, Mar 31 2017, 9:50 PM EST
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tripleguy wrote:
Who is this magwitch of which you speak?

He's kinda like the Cormac McCarthy of the Forums.
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