I find it ironic when an idiot calls someone an idiot.

In 2009, La Gloria Cubana Serie R #5 was a box of 24 or $96 ($4 a piece for you math challenged out there).

Today, $136 and $7 each ($35 for fiver) on auction..

No, it isn't Federal Obama tobacco taxes.

Bourbon out the nose

YOU would.

They're called 5V's...

"Prices are too damn high!"

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Try washing your junk...needs washed more than once a month. Problem solved.

Da General would give us store credit.

Ask nicely, they might oblige.

+1

There was a time, years ago, that cbid was number 1........no more....

Now, they are BARELY the third best........more likely fourth......which makes them last......and the worst.

The matter of auto-bot schill bids??

I hope not....but...

:-k

it has to be... there's not another explanation for it... before the meltdown - when this company lost a ton of money and respect - auction prices had become so predictable you knew exactly what was going to happen with them... after the meltdown - when they lost the ability to ship orders and answer phones - all of a sudden every single auction closes within a couple of dollars of retail... every single time...

to summarize

pre-meltdown - great customer service, lots of happy customers, predictably low prices

post-meltdown - worst customer service I've ever seen, few happy customers, outlandishly high prices

Glad I got mine when I had a chance.

I use to pickup graycliff double espresso for less than 3 bucks a cigar too.

Shill bidding, perhaps?