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mkraus47 Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 02-04-2003
Posts: 196
So I went to a local cigar shop this weekend and bought couple of "bargain" smokes at $1.25 each. The box said Robusto seconds. I hae had Punch robusto seconds, and Hoyo robusto seconds, so I thought maybe these were too. Man. I could not be more wrong. As soon as I took the cello off I should have known not to light it when i saw the end was pre-punched. But I lit it up anyway. I knew right away it was trash, but gave it antother 4 puffs before putting it out. I was told by the retailor that it was hand rolled with long filler. I did not believe this so I opened it up and sow that it most certainly was NOT hand rolled. Now here is the best part. The binder was made of brown paper. Not tobacco, but paper. So crappy machine filller, paper binder, tobacco wrapper. No wander it tasted like.....you know. I will NEVER skimp on cigars again. It is just not worth it. Just my P.S.A of the day. MK
wer Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 02-13-2003
Posts: 1,633
Bummer, but a $1.25 will get you several decent smokes here. Skip on price, not quality.
wer Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 02-13-2003
Posts: 1,633
and now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Mr.Mean Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 05-16-2001
Posts: 3,025
i'd go buy another and open it front of that POS shop owner.
Penguin13 Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 07-26-2002
Posts: 1,546
I'm with mean on that one. What's $1.25 to show the owner that he's full of ****!!

KC
raven01 Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 07-14-2003
Posts: 215
And tell anyone that will listen what a great deal this guy offers...
rjdc Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 05-26-2002
Posts: 682
MK, Quitcha bitchin an fuhgedaboudit.


Let me tell you where you went wrong;


1. You used the four letter word "retail". CB/CI, could have taken care of your needs.

2. You must have let yourself run of of sticks to force you to go retail. Shame on you! All good lovers of the leaf have lots of cigars for any occaision, i.e. dog walk, store, here to there, yard.
Hell, I get below 800 and I start to sweat!

3. What did you expect at that retail price!? You can get lots of good smokes here at that price.

4. The word "bargain", should've tipped you off. No such thing in reatil, comparetivly speaking. Hand rolled must've meant that lots of people have dropped them on the floor.

True the SOB should've been responsible enough to make it good, but remember, you ventured into the shadow of death on his turf. Buyer beware!

Sorry you got stiffed. Hope you learned from it. The words "run out" only describes the drool I make when I get my gars in the mail.

MK, fill up those dors, so you can take a few with you where ever you go.

Right on time. UPS is here with my weekly CB delivery. I think 75 or 80. I'll have one in your honour.

Anthony
arwings Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 02-09-2003
Posts: 950
Actually, the binder WAS tobacco, it just looked and felt like paper. It is known as reconstituted tobacco leaf, made by pulverizing the tobacco to about the consistency of snuff. Then an adhesive is added and it is rolled out in sheets. A machine can handle this product when rolling a cigar much quicker and with much less chance of jamming as opposed to natural tobacco leaf binder (it also requires much less "hands-on" intervention). It's been around for a long time. If you look on the box of "drugstore" cigars you will see a statement something to the effect, "These cigars are predominately natural tobacco, with non-tobacco ingredients added." This statement is usually referring to the adhesive additives. Cheaper cigars that use the tobacco sheet binding will usually tout that they have an all natural wrapper. REALLY cheap cigars will have a tobacco sheet binder and wrapper.

And yes, what you bought was 99% sure to be machine-made, and cheaply machine-made at that (remember a machine-made cigar can be 100% tobacco, with a natural binder, but requires more hands-on intervention and is more difficult).
TubeDoc Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 05-05-2002
Posts: 69
MK, I am right there with you. I have tried to find an "affordable" smoke and have fallen prey to these kinds of cigar. Seconds and "overruns" use a quality cigar name to sell crap. They have to something with the surplus tobacco, so they put it all together and tell you something it is not. That is not to say that I have not had a "good" bargin cigar. But for consistancy, go for the name brands. I have sworn off of no-name cigars. CBid is a place you can get them at a reasonable price (if you do your homework and don't overbid)
Just MHO, Doc
gorob23 Offline
#10 Posted:
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gorob23 Offline
#11 Posted:
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cccbus Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 02-20-2003
Posts: 412
I'm sorry but "reconstituted tobacco leaf" just doesn't sound right. Just can't smoke it if it doesnt sound right. LOL....and now back to my beer
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