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yankeelawdog Offline
#1 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 1:53 PM EST
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I've been buying cigars here for years and I've never seen Free Fall auctions totally disappear. Is this something new? Are they re-setting things for more Free Falls or are they gone indefinitely?
ZRX1200 Offline
#2 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 2:05 PM EST
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No problem for platinum members.
Keeper of the plains Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 2:46 PM EST
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I asked the same question
RMAN4443 Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 3:19 PM EST
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Keeper of the plains wrote:
I asked the same question

Where?
Pudding Mittens Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 3:32 PM EST
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Have a look at the search function. Neither the "Auction Type" nor "Category" dropdown menus have "Freefall" among their options. Did they used to? I forget, but I think so! For that matter, NONE of the search controls I see has any mention of, or option for, "Freefall" anything. It's like Freefalls don't exist.

I design and code webapps like this, so I see two possibilities:

1. The search options are hard-coded or config-table-driven, which means a programmer was told to manually remove the Freefall search options either from the code, or from the config table that the code uses. This would be a deliberate act indicating Freefall is going bye-bye.

2. The search options are dynamic based on what auctions currently exist. Therefore, if there are no Freefall auctions today, the code doesn't bother putting Freefall options in the search tool today. This would not involve a deliberate act, it's passive and automatic.

So let's hope the system's made with method #2, and there just happen to be no Freefalls today!
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tamapatom Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 4:29 PM EST
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Never a a food price on freefall.
tamapatom Offline
#7 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 4:30 PM EST
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Never found a good price on freefall.
Keeper of the plains Offline
#8 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 4:45 PM EST
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I found some great deals on freefall. Hope it comes back
CANO Offline
#9 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 5:42 PM EST
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i love freefall what happen hoping on getting lucky today, guess not. i get a lot of good deals on freefall
Salmoneye Offline
#10 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 6:33 PM EST
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frankj1 Offline
#11 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 11:01 PM EST
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tamapatom wrote:
Never a a food price on freefall.

I get most of my food here
Pudding Mittens Offline
#12 Posted: Sat, Jul 28 2018, 11:31 PM EST
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tamapatom wrote:
Never found a good price on freefall.

I found two of them just yesterday:

http://www.cigarbid.com/...Palio-cutters-for-CHEAP

Keeper of the plains Offline
#13 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 5:05 AM EST
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I posted same question in here and in general discussion, never saw it posted?
Keeper of the plains Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 5:05 AM EST
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I posted same question in here and in general discussion, never saw it posted?
bassman45 Offline
#15 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 9:02 AM EST
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FREE FALL IS BACK!
bassman45 Offline
#16 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 9:08 AM EST
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Speaking of freefall, haven't bought in years but saw Pudding Mittens mentioning Nightcrawlers.I never had one but found these on freefall and grabbed two 10 packs @$19.02 ea.( I think the low was $18.73)Herfing
KingoftheCove Offline
#17 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 10:30 AM EST
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bassman45 wrote:
Speaking of freefall, haven't bought in years but saw Pudding Mittens mentioning Nightcrawlers.I never had one but found these on freefall and grabbed two 10 packs @$19.02 ea.( I think the low was $18.73)Herfing

Applause
That's a great price.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#18 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 11:52 AM EST
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Yup, clearly their web app uses method #2 above. It omitted Freefall from the search options because there were no Freefall auctions that day. Now with the Freefall auctions back, the Freefall options are back in the search controls too.

Anyway, glad to see them back!

The Nightcrawlers improve with time quite a bit, let 'em rest awhile. Great stick though.

I loaded up on them when the mothership did a stupid-crazy-low deal back in the spring. Nightcrawler 10-packs are $43 normally, and they did a sale that made them BOGO plus added a $20 Bucks card. So, you got 20 Nightcrawlers for a net $23, meaning $1.15 per stick.

Much more insane was the MUWAT KFC deal going at the same time: The KFC Kyotos 10-packs are usually $24, but with BOGO and a $20 Bucks card, it nets out to 20 sticks for $4, meaning $0.20 per stick.

Needless to say, I bought a metric schitt-ton of both during the sale, since there were no limits!
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Mrs. dpnewell Offline
#19 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 3:47 PM EST
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I have never found anything on freefall, that I couldn't eventually win for far less on the regular Cbid auctions.

David
redman19 Offline
#20 Posted: Sun, Jul 29 2018, 9:15 PM EST
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I picked up a 5 count her a dor night before last for 5.92, not bad
tonygraz Online
#21 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 7:28 AM EST
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Frank always buys his nightcrawlers on free fall. Also, I agree with DPN and never bought anything on freefall.
KingoftheCove Offline
#22 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 10:08 AM EST
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The Jaime Garcia Robusto10 packs for 34.99 used to be a decent deal.
Typically higher than bid prices here, but I haven't checked in a year or two.....might not be the current reset.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#23 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 10:18 AM EST
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Recently fell in love with the Jaime Garcia... didn't realize they could be had at auction... not gonna buy em here, but maybe one of the other places will have em...
bassman45 Offline
#24 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 5:38 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Frank always buys his nightcrawlers on free fall. Also, I agree with DPN and never bought anything on freefall.
Maybe in the old days you could've gotten better prices...please let me know when you guys can get a 10 pack of Nightcrawlers for less than $19 on a regular auction.Not talking
frankj1 Offline
#25 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 6:27 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Frank always buys his nightcrawlers on free fall. Also, I agree with DPN and never bought anything on freefall.

I don't know what they are...unless you mean worms.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#26 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 6:45 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Frank always buys his nightcrawlers on free fall.

"When was the last time we played Nightcrawlers together, Frank?"

--- Charlie Kelly
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frankj1 Offline
#27 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 7:29 PM EST
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oh.
used to watch, liked it.
KingoftheCove Offline
#28 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 9:49 PM EST
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bassman45 wrote:
Maybe in the old days you could've gotten better prices...please let me know when you guys can get a 10 pack of Nightcrawlers for less than $19 on a regular auction.Not talking

+1
Even in da olden days, a good price was 22/23ish.
I've never seen a 10 pack for under 20.......in fact.......I'd almost venture a guess that someone goofed on setting the FF reset.
Sshhh....
KingoftheCove Offline
#29 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 9:54 PM EST
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Pudding Mittens wrote:
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I loaded up on them when the mothership did a stupid-crazy-low deal back in the spring. Nightcrawler 10-packs are $43 normally, and they did a sale that made them BOGO plus added a $20 Bucks card. So, you got 20 Nightcrawlers for a net $23, meaning $1.15 per stick.

Much more insane was the MUWAT KFC deal going at the same time: The KFC Kyotos 10-packs are usually $24, but with BOGO and a $20 Bucks card, it nets out to 20 sticks for $4, meaning $0.20 per stick.

Needless to say, I bought a metric schitt-ton of both during the sale, since there were no limits!
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Puddin, I bestow upon thee the title.........."Duke of Coupons".
Nightcrawlers at $1.15/ea is simply impressive.

Think
I wonder if DP could have got them for $1.05...
KingoftheCove Offline
#30 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 10:17 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Recently fell in love with the Jaime Garcia... didn't realize they could be had at auction... not gonna buy em here, but maybe one of the other places will have em...

Just watched a batch of FF for the Jaime Garcia Rob 10 pack.
Starts at 64/65
Lowest reset I saw was 43ish.

Pretty sure the days of 34.99 are over.
KingoftheCove Offline
#31 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 10:28 PM EST
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You can get 5 packs at da other place for 20.
Not great.........but not terrible.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#32 Posted: Mon, Jul 30 2018, 11:26 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
Puddin, I bestow upon thee the title.........."Duke of Coupons".
Nightcrawlers at $1.15/ea is simply impressive.

It was one of those "are they nuts?" mothership deals. MUWAT and MUWAT KFC 10-packs, buy one get one free, PLUS a $20 Bucks card thrown in. So the cheaper 10-packs were disproportionately more discounted because of the $20 Bucks card's fixed value. So for the cheapest one, the MUWAT KFC Kyotos at $24, it was pretty much pure insanity on their part, and for the Nightcrawlers at $43 it was still near-insanity.

It was advertised in their promotional emails and right on the front page too, if I remember right, so it was no mistake. But just, wow. Talk about a time to load up!

It may have included free shipping too, or maybe there was a promo code for that, I forget, but I did get free shipping.
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