i'm a long time customer and quite possibly have the largest dollar volume of anyone on CB who is buying cigars ONLY for personal consumption. my running CB Total is about $34,000 (not a misprint).... and it's on the verge of going to $0.

i'm getting sick of the CB squeezing for more cash and changing the rules at MY/OUR expense. i'm still very unhappy with the shipping changed from Standard UPS to UPS Sure Post. My shipments formerly arrived in about two days... now i pay UPS an extra fee for standard shipping and it still takes four days. NEWS FLASH TO CIGAR BID... I'M THE ONE PAYING FOR SHIPPING, NOT YOU.

Secondly... i hate (as in HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) the Free Fall scam... yeah, i said it... scam. CB is an AUCTION site... not a video game where we try to beat the clock by clicking on a price. Read your own promotion tag... "America's #1 Online Cigar AUCTION" site. i'm not here to play a Carnival game run by carnies... and Free Fall is in the exact same category. Say it with me... We are an AUCTION site.

Finally... the most recent scam is the Bid to Win changes that i've noticed. i just bid on a lot that had 6 units. All six units distributed to five different people (obviously one person had bid on and was winning 2 units). ONLY ONE of the units was at $11.00 and the Bid to Win was $11.50 (the other 5 units were at $9.50 to $10.50). The Bid to Win IS NOT $11.50... IT'S STILL $11 and isn't increased until ALL units have reached $11... right?? when did this little morsel get changed??

A little over $2K per year over 16 years huh? Thanks for helping to keep the lights on! 👍

That doesn't make you a major player here, so La Princessa will not be impressed...........just sayin.

Second......shipping prices and policies have been fubar here for years, and the other place has always been better....so...nothing new there.

Free Fall........it is what it is, and always has been..........BUT.....since the introduction of the new web site, there are now typically 600 or more items on FF, compared to MAYBE 100 in da olden days. That said, there are a handful of decent items on FF, where the reset is LOWER than the typical winning bid price from the regular auction.

Remember, losing a bid is a sign of weakness.

That's special.

Hell, Rah spends more than that sitting on the toilet.

Edit:

I'm one to talk, I just dropped $150 just now while yelling at my kid to go to bed.

.....YOU KNOW IT!!! I figured my average from 2009 to 2015 alone was about $570 A MONTH! Who knows exactly how much before or since. I admit this year and last what I spend here is WAY DOWN! Mainly because of lousy prices on AVERAGE cigars and a SERIOUS lack of selection. Oh, and YES, I do mastermind my auction attack on the can DAILY! 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁

ORDER HISTORY

Order # Confirmation # Status Order Total Date

1008500716 CB020085397 Shipped $70.96 6/13/2018

1008412598 CB020080487 Shipped $68.37 6/6/2018

1008253581 CB020071719 Shipped $60.36 5/24/2018

1007774677 CB020046078 Shipped $84.26 4/18/2018

1007434748 CB020029102 Shipped $228.55 3/22/2018

1007362087 CB020025889 Shipped $119.35 3/16/2018

1007192055 CB020017477 Shipped $257.57 3/5/2018

1006864617 CB020004206 Shipped $631.97 2/8/2018

1006341930 CB6740190 Shipped $303.64 1/11/2018

1006037099 CB6712987 Shipped $459.93 12/27/2017

1005818201 CB6688854 Shipped $152.05 12/14/2017

1005553662 CB6654578 Shipped $303.37 11/29/2017

1005401689 CB6637312 Shipped $104.88 11/22/2017

1005254300 CB6621550 Shipped $153.91 11/16/2017

1004875592 CB6573470 Shipped $509.81 10/25/2017

1004088894 CB6516533 Shipped $457.91 9/28/2017

1003613097 CB6465621 Shipped $328.81 9/5/2017

1003237189 CB6412447 Shipped $101.18 8/11/2017

1003201377 CB6405767 Shipped $112.52 8/8/2017

1001482433 CB6209857 Shipped $105.95 4/11/2017

1000300295 CB6155812 Shipped $240.30 3/6/2017

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That explains a lot.

Grabbed a bundle Don Pepin Blues that way on FF which went for $3 per before shipping last week. Those go for $11 at the B&M near here . I have been picking up a number of singles since then to add to the order. As someone said in the "best score" thread, there has been a lot of good deals on singles - assuming you are already placing an order so that its 25 cents shipping. Grabbed a number of A.J. selections for $1 per and some Olivas for $2 each as well as some I just always wanted to try out, with single auctions over the weekend. Even with adding a quarter to them for shipping, its a pretty good deal. It is strange though, some nights there is nobody bidding on singles, some nights the prices are ridiculous.

In all, I have bought enough so that I am going to get a nice package of good cigars that I know I enjoy, as well as a few I have just wanted to sample before buying a bundle, for well under $3 each even with the shipping. IF the OP would rather go to the local cigar store and pay $10 or so for each for those, he won't have a bidding or shipping problem.

Everyone here knows that for the higher-end cigars, there are now often better places to shop online and a few places that have periodic deals on good smokes (OMB III's anyone???) that beat what you can get them for here. But this is still a fine place to stock up on good cigars for much less than you would pay retail.

I'm thinkin' that there might be other online places to buy cigars...

I'll have to check and get back on that...

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We were just kidding! There are NO other online places to buy cigars!!!!! Only here can you get them.!!!!!

Look closely at the watch, closely, closely. Your eyes are getting heavy....

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I'm staying off Rah's toilet. My mom told me you can catch all kinds of things from those things!

Seacoast works for the IRS and you just made his job easy. Get your check book ready to pay those back taxes!

You are not the only one bidding on smokes

Lightweight! Only 34K life total, that's supposed to be a lot and impress us? Guess again!

Add another zero or something, if you want to get into "not a misprint" land, son.

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So sorry for your troubles with the site, if you could please send a description of the errors you experienced to our software team, they can look into it. Send them a PM at the username "MACS" and they will get right on it.

Thanks for helping us make this a better experience for everyone.

every once in a while, when the world seems to be engulfed in gray clouds, a ray of sunshine wheedles its way through the morass of despair and the prospect of hope is rekindled from the ashes.

Thunder.Gerbil, you, sir, are like that ray of sunshine, like that Phoenix rising from the ashes, offering hope where there was none for a world in which cheap cigars may be obtained without...dare I say it...shenanigans.

Thank you for your service.