J&K11 wrote:If you try a highly rated cigar bought from here and say it "sucks" maybe try one from a b&m and see if it is the same. You have to wonder how is it possible to buy premium cigars for less than what local shops pay wholesale even after tax and shipping is included. Something doesn't add up with this site and if you dont see it you are either not being honest with yourself or dont care what you smoke as long as it's wearing your favorite band. I figured out whats going on after my first and last order. Try taking apart one of your premium long filler cigars bought here and you might find mixed short filler and floor sweepings like I did.
Well you might be right.........but I don’t think so.
Here is my take.
Padron, LFD, higher end Tats, Fuente, Dunbarton, higher end My Father, and so on?
I seriously doubt they have shpo cigars, and then a second tier cigar of the same brand/vitola that is special made, from lesser tobacco, for online retailers.
Rocky, AB, Gurkha and the like?
Who knows. Smoke at your own risk.
Where things get “tricky” is when a mid range high volume producer, like AJ for instance, licenses out certain lines to CI and the like. Then you can have issues with respect to a particular cigar not being what it once was.