If you're paying attention these boxes typically appear to be unreleased vitolas. Perhaps they were test run cigars or stuff that was shelved.

Additionally we saw a run of auctions from the Partagas 100's anniversary lines some of which haven't been released since the early 90's. My thought is that they're just clearing obscure inventory that hasn't been sold in order to cut a loss or make room for new stock.

If I am right, some of these smokes could be pretty well aged if they have had long production runs with multiple changes in vitola.

Perhaps the FDA ruling may be at play but what explains Cbid flooding the grandfathered 'gars out to market?

Has any

one smoked an

y of this st

uff?? IS OK?

http://www.cigarbid.com/FORUM/c/posts/m/4150863/g-s-e-#post4150863 

Gotta be a quick pump n dump type thing.

These. just popped up has not been enough time really. My order will ship on Tuesday.

ZRX is probably having coffee and a Padron, sitting at the table, waiting for his mommy to bring him pancakes.

I suspect they will talk about it over breakfast, and he'll post something later in the day.

The odds of randomly choosing S and then E = 26 x 26 =676.

1 in 676.

That is the odds of this not matching the two most important words in hundreds of pages of the FDA deeming regulation:

"Substantially Equivalent"

So for marketing purposes these smokes are "Special Editions" but when the lawyers put on their black suits, grab their briefcases and start talking to the judge they morph to "Substantially Equivalent".

(I think the G stands for General. 🙂 )

Relax. Smoke em if you got em. Likely a new line that hasn't yet been released that they're cutting losses on due to FDA