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Mraia Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 4:31 PM EST
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I know I’m going to get kicked in the teeth for this but other than CB I haven’t bought smokes anywhere else on line. Maybe CI years ago but recently this is it.
So going on to other sites I’m seeing smokes that I’ve never even heard of before! I mean, there’s a whole other world out there!!
I suppose its poor form to talk about other sites but good lord it looks like CB has a lot of the same old same old.
Am I off base here? Again I know I’m opening myself up for some shots but…yeesh
ZRX1200 Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 4:33 PM EST
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Don’t mention competitors names and you’re fine.
ZRX1200 Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 4:34 PM EST
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Cheno Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 6:10 PM EST
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There are other places that are well known and scary out there that have cigars you will want to smoke. Most of us here don't buy from here that often anymore. You will be in the same boat soon.
Palama Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 8:22 PM EST
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Mraia wrote:
I know I’m going to get kicked in the teeth for this but other than CB I haven’t bought smokes anywhere else on line. Maybe CI years ago but recently this is it.
So going on to other sites I’m seeing smokes that I’ve never even heard of before! I mean, there’s a whole other world out there!!
I suppose its poor form to talk about other sites but good lord it looks like CB has a lot of the same old same old.
Am I off base here? Again I know I’m opening myself up for some shots but…yeesh


Cheno wrote:
There are other places that are well known and scary out there that have cigars you will want to smoke. Most of us here don't buy from here that often anymore. You will be in the same boat soon.


Don't forget that some of them are small but sweethearts. And then there are those on the right coast but obtainable only by sea.

When I first started smoking premium cigars, my initial online purchases were somewhere else but a h.s. classmate told me about CBid and it all went downhill from there! But, Google, when done right, can be your friend! fog
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 9:03 PM EST
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Actually scored some warped la Colmana here recently. Really happy with price. I get my any time smokes here every so often. Which I don’t need to buy any of for a couple years.
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 9:04 PM EST
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I buy my smokes wherever I get the best deal. I really like sales or good coupons
Palama Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 9:11 PM EST
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Jakethesnake86 wrote:
I buy my smokes wherever I get the best deal. I really like sales or good coupons


+1
ZRX1200 Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 10:04 PM EST
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I only shop where they offer pirate shipping.
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Feb 6 2023, 10:14 PM EST
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Same bro^^
tonygraz Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 12:17 PM EST
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The days of killer deals here is pretty much over for now. I still buy here when I can get a great deal but those are few and far between. I'll buy wherever I can get a deal but right now is not a good time. I spend a lot of time looking and bidding here when I do and usually get outbid on 98 % of my bids - way too many snipers. My last great and extraordinary buy was in October of '22 when I got 197 cigars for $ 73 plus shipping and tax.I doubt if that will ever happen again..
clintCigar Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 12:34 PM EST
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You're not off base FYI. Herfing
Palama Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 2:29 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
The days of killer deals here is pretty much over for now. I still buy here when I can get a great deal but those are few and far between. I'll buy wherever I can get a deal but right now is not a good time. I spend a lot of time looking and bidding here when I do and usually get outbid on 98 % of my bids - way too many snipers. My last great and extraordinary buy was in October of '22 when I got 197 cigars for $ 73 plus shipping and tax.I doubt if that will ever happen again..


I hope you’re wrong but fear you’re right. d'oh!

Of course your “…for now” still gives everyone hope that they’ll be back albeit in smaller numbers and farther in-between.

I’ve cut my “regular” purchases down significantly to almost nothing and really only buy if it’s a HTF that I would like to have but not gotta have.

Your 197 for $73 is awesome (…or awful, depending on what you won…Laugh ).
Stogie1020 Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 2:54 PM EST
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I have lost count of the number of emails I have recevied from shpos within the last 3-4 months regarding price increases of various cigars...
tonygraz Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 3:27 PM EST
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Palama wrote:


Your 197 for $73 is awesome (…or awful, depending on what you won…Laugh ).


Some wonderful and others I was looking for. No Gurks tho I may have bid on 1 or 2.
Palama Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 3:59 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Some wonderful and others I was looking for. No Gurks tho I may have bid on 1 or 2.


At $0.37 per cigar, you probably got the once-in-a-lifetime deal / steal.

DP Newell would be proud of you! Applause
PapaWhiskey Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 4:09 PM EST
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On average how much are you paying per stick? Providing they have what you want I haven’t found any better deal. Before I found cbid I would find deals but not even close to the prices here. I stopped by the local shop in CT yesterday and picked up some smokes they make that I like but walked away thinking I could get three times the amount for other cigars I like on cbid. I’ll keep buying those $10 smokes there because I like supporting local but the majority of my smokes come from cbid. I can usually find what I like for $3 on average. Some $2, some 4 or 5. So how much are you paying per cigar on average?
Stogie1020 Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Feb 7 2023, 4:22 PM EST
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Cheno wrote:
There are other places that are well known and scary out there that have cigars you will want to smoke. Most of us here don't buy from here that often anymore. You will be in the same boat soon.



I remember seeing this when I first found this place (and discovered CBid) and thought there was no way that would happen to me.


You guys were right. It happened to me.
deadeyedick Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Feb 8 2023, 8:02 AM EST
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MAP pricing pretty much ruined this place for me. Just can't find many I'm looking for here any more.
KingoftheCove Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Feb 8 2023, 10:33 AM EST
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Only 5 cigars I shop for here.
I will occasionally shop for yard gars, and have scored well on those, and I’ll bid on pipe baccy and sometimes win at very good prices.
BuckyB93 Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Feb 8 2023, 10:46 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
MAP pricing pretty much ruined this place for me. Just can't find many I'm looking for here any more.

KingoftheCove wrote:
Only 5 cigars I shop for here.
I will occasionally shop for yard gars, and have scored well on those, and I’ll bid on pipe baccy and sometimes win at very good prices.

+1

There are a small handful of inexpensive cigars that I'll by as smokes for walking around/handing out to non cigar folks/gardening/fishing, etc... but the days of getting the next level up or higher at a discount here has been gone for a while now.
DonJaime Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Feb 9 2023, 2:39 PM EST
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I started buying here a couple of months ago and have dropped way more coin that I expected. I really enjoy Excalibur No. 1. a box retails for ~$145. I scored 2 boxes here for around $70 each. I also set myself a limit of $5 per cigar, and have been able to pick up a bunch of 5 and 10 packs of Nubs, Flatheads, CAO blacks, diesels, Rocky Patel 10 year, and Vintage etc. so im really happy with that.

Wish they had decent Fuentes besides curlyheads though, and price could certainly be better on My Father and AJ Fernandez.

So I stick around for what they have, and go elsewhere for what they dont have
jeremyledoux Offline
#23 Posted: Sat, Feb 18 2023, 7:31 AM EST
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I just started here as well and have been scooping up Cohiba red dots and maduros for under 5 a stick, some montes and buffalo traces for super reasonable prices even compared to the 3 other online shops I used to use before finding CBid. I do however hope the luster of this site wears off for me because I'll be blowing a check in here no problem otherwise.
Tiver Offline
#24 Posted: Sat, Feb 18 2023, 12:12 PM EST
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jeremyledoux wrote:
I just started here as well and have been scooping up Cohiba red dots and maduros for under 5 a stick, some montes and buffalo traces for super reasonable prices even compared to the 3 other online shops I used to use before finding CBid. I do however hope the luster of this site wears off for me because I'll be blowing a check in here no problem otherwise.


That is a high price for the red. Exercise some restraint and put the auctions in your lot watch just for tracking prices. Some days of the week are not days that things go cheap. Other days you can find much better deals. One thing you can do is watch for auctions that have a lot of units available. Auctions with one or two units are tougher
BuckyB93 Offline
#25 Posted: Sat, Feb 18 2023, 12:31 PM EST
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If and when I do bid on cigars here I use the max bid option. Set it at about 60-65% the price listed on Cigars International. If I win, fine. If I don't, also fine.
Stogie1020 Offline
#26 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 11:03 AM EST
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I just won a few auctions on CBid, but it will likely be my last unless I forget this experience... It;s not the ordering, the pricing or the slow shipping (all the usual complaints). It's the shipping charges. I really needed a few boveda packs, so once I won them, I bid on two different five packs of cigars and won. So, total of ten cigars and four bovedas. Shipping is $11.45. That's just bananas. I could order a full box of cigars from anywhere else and pay maybe $5-8 shipping. I love you CBid, but I am not ordering here simply due to the shipping gouging. Pretty sure they are charging me $1 PER boveda as an "accessory" item add-on inthe shipping 'saver' program.

1st 5er - $6.95
2nd 5er - $0.50
4x bovedas - $4.00
KingoftheCove Offline
#27 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 12:50 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
I just won a few auctions on CBid, but it will likely be my last unless I forget this experience... It;s not the ordering, the pricing or the slow shipping (all the usual complaints). It's the shipping charges. I really needed a few boveda packs, so once I won them, I bid on two different five packs of cigars and won. So, total of ten cigars and four bovedas. Shipping is $11.45. That's just bananas. I could order a full box of cigars from anywhere else and pay maybe $5-8 shipping. I love you CBid, but I am not ordering here simply due to the shipping gouging. Pretty sure they are charging me $1 PER boveda as an "accessory" item add-on inthe shipping 'saver' program.

1st 5er - $6.95
2nd 5er - $0.50
4x bovedas - $4.00

Stogie, how do you think the lights stay on there?
Of course you are paying $1/Boveda for shipping………….them things is HEAVY!

Thank you for your contribution.
Stogie1020 Offline
#28 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:23 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
Stogie, how do you think the lights stay on there?
Of course you are paying $1/Boveda for shipping………….them things is HEAVY!

Thank you for your contribution.


Just got a (fast!) reply to my email to CBid... It said "sorry not sorry."
ZRX1200 Offline
#29 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 4:08 PM EST
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Don’t forget the “handling”!!!
tonygraz Offline
#30 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:33 PM EST
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And then there are state taxes. My last order was 15% shipping and taxes. Smaller orders will have larger percentages. Still better than other places in per cigar costs.
LeeBot Offline
#31 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:46 PM EST
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BigGrin
ZRX1200 wrote:
Don’t forget the “handling”!!!

Yeah, I've placed larger orders on here and been hit with a $35 shipping charge when any other online retailer would have gladly shipped them for free. The $1 per extra item is great psychological trick to get us to order more (I do) AND charge more for shipping. They tricky bastids.
KingoftheCove Offline
#32 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 6:11 PM EST
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That is the great thing about the Page.
Free, and FAST shipping.
And they do have good deals from time to time.

As many have noted, the glory days here and at the other place are looooong gone.
Heck, even the mb3 place only has CRAP in their CLEARANCE section.
One used to score great smokes there years ago…………....like Pre Davidoff Camachos, etc
Stogie1020 Offline
#33 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 11:47 AM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
That is the great thing about the Page.
Free, and FAST shipping.
And they do have good deals from time to time.

As many have noted, the glory days here and at the other place are looooong gone.
Heck, even the mb3 place only has CRAP in their CLEARANCE section.
One used to score great smokes there years ago…………....like Pre Davidoff Camachos, etc

Here is the thing with that place (I order plenty from there, I am not biased):

The "free shipping" fee is built into the cost of EACH item you order. This is fine if you only order one thing, but as soon as you order a few or a whole bunch, you are now by default paying the "free shipping" fee on each item, despite them being shipped together at a much reduced shipping cost to the retailer.
Mraia Offline
#34 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 12:57 PM EST
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^now that’s a good tip!👍
Palama Offline
#35 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 2:15 PM EST
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[KingoftheCove wrote:
That is the great thing about the Page.
Free, and FAST shipping.
And they do have good deals from time to time.

As many have noted, the glory days here and at the other place are looooong gone.
Heck, even the mb3 place only has CRAP in their CLEARANCE section.
One used to score great smokes there years ago…………....like Pre Davidoff Camachos, etc


Oh yah! I took a little too much time to decide which vitola(s) to get and by the time I decided, iirc, they were sold out of the Robustos and Coronas so got the Nacionales and Petit Coronas instead. Later got some Cetros through an inventory thinning by Napalm.

Stogie1020 wrote:
Here is the thing with that place (I order plenty from there, I am not biased):

The "free shipping" fee is built into the cost of EACH item you order. This is fine if you only order one thing, but as soon as you order a few or a whole bunch, you are now by default paying the "free shipping" fee on each item, despite them being shipped together at a much reduced shipping cost to the retailer.



The small place sometimes bumps up their pricing but not so egregious that it dissuades me from ordering from them when they’re on one day special.
Stogie1020 Offline
#36 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 2:42 PM EST
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Good reminder Palama, I gotta get on the small place's emails. You know, cause I need ONE MORE cigar retailer emailing me EVERY DAMN DAY...

Aaaaaaannnd, I just siged up for their emails.
Palama Offline
#37 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 3:25 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Good reminder Palama, I gotta get on the small place's emails. You know, cause I need ONE MORE cigar retailer emailing me EVERY DAMN DAY...

Aaaaaaannnd, I just siged up for their emails.


Applause

Because I’ve reduced my buying to a 5er or two, the small place is perfect for me. I also like that they have a Rewards program so after a few orders, I have enough to redeem and use those credits to further reduce my costs.

And yah, the daily e-mails pile up and once in awhile they send their newsletter too so you get a double hit.
Mraia Offline
#38 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 7:17 PM EST
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The small place?
Ram27 Offline
#39 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 7:21 PM EST
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To many secret codes and word puzzles to keep up.d'oh!

Just bid here and purchase from Cigar International (CI) and be happy. Applause
KingoftheCove Offline
#40 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 11:31 PM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
To many secret codes and word puzzles to keep up.d'oh!

Just bid here and purchase from Cigar International (CI) and be happy. Applause

No
Ram27 Offline
#41 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 12:38 AM EST
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ram27bat
clickbangdead Offline
#42 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 1:54 AM EST
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Honestly, the last really good deals I got were around Black Friday, bunch of places had "no restrictions % off" of anywhere from 20-25%. Used that to pick up MAP stuff like Padron and AF sticks. The tenski place does sometimes offer a selection with "see discount in cart, wink wink" pricing that averages about %25 percent off on their prices that is a pretty good deal, assuming the selections offered are sticks you like. Scored some Brulee and a few other sticks at decent prices then.
clickbangdead Offline
#43 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 1:56 AM EST
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Oh, and place that is for cigars will about once a year send out a %20 off coupon, no restrictions iffin you haven't ordered from them in awhile.
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#44 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 12:54 PM EST
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Had one back Friday place ran a 40% off entire order and free ship over $100. Busted up my hiatus like a mofo
BuckyB93 Offline
#45 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 1:16 PM EST
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Mraia wrote:
The small place?


I'm not privy to the "small place" code phrase. Maybe it's where the the Oompa-Loompas work (shrug).
Mraia Offline
#46 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 1:23 PM EST
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Doompety Doo.
Palama Offline
#47 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 2:08 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Had one back Friday place ran a 40% off entire order and free ship over $100. Busted up my hiatus like a mofo


Thank goodness I missed that sale! 😵‍💫

But, iirc, I purposely glossed over all messages from cigar vendors during the week leading up to BF just so that I wouldn’t be tempted. So mighta seenit but closed my eyes and hit “Delete” instead. Not talking
Sunoverbeach Offline
#48 Posted: Sat, Feb 25 2023, 4:40 PM EST
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I shoulda forwarded the advert. I'm a selfish basted.

Their regular pricing isn't anything special, but the sale was good for picking up some special ones. Asylum 10 year annys this time around
deadeyedick Offline
#49 Posted: Sun, Feb 26 2023, 8:12 AM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
I shoulda forwarded the advert. I'm a selfish basted.

Their regular pricing isn't anything special, but the sale was good for picking up some special ones. Asylum 10 year annys this time around


Yep. That 40% off sale caused me to buy about 5 boxes that I was not looking for.
KingoftheCove Offline
#50 Posted: Sun, Feb 26 2023, 11:42 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Yep. That 40% off sale caused me to buy about 5 boxes that I was not looking for.

Passed on that one….………kind of glad I did
Need to start my Spring/Summer buying hiatus sooner than usual.
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