dubleuhb
Monday, September 19, 2011 3:24:42 PM
********************UPDATE*******************

Order placed 9/13

Shipped 9/13

Recieved ''the E-mail'' 9/17

Recieved my cigars 9/19 =d>

So I am not lost on them yet, they made the shipment that I paid for.

Now I hope they get their situation taken care of with the bank.

With all due respect though I cannot call my CC company and tell them I did not recieve my goods as was asked. 🤔

Hope everyone else gets the same end result.

🇨🇮

Thunder.Gerbil
Monday, September 19, 2011 3:35:44 PM

Didn’t they have issues a few years back (not talking about the Chicago massacre) where the guberment got a hold of some of their credit card transactions?

I could be wrong, maybe it was someone else but I faintly remember getting a letter with a friendly reminder about the embargo. I didn’t sweat it much since I didn’t had any shipments confiscated.

BuckyB93 wrote:

If we are thinking of the same incident, that was someone else. They had two processors, one was based in Hong Kong, one was based in the UK (Ireland I believe). Somehow the UK one's records got to the US Government. The Government didn't know what people bought, just that they bought something, but not everything that the vendor offered was illegal for US citizens to own, hence the friendly reminders and "What did you buy, please tell us" letters.

HockeyDad
Monday, September 19, 2011 4:22:31 PM

If we are thinking of the same incident, that was someone else. They had two processors, one was based in Hong Kong, one was based in the UK (Ireland I believe). Somehow the UK one's records got to the US Government. The Government didn't know what people bought, just that they bought something, but not everything that the vendor offered was illegal for US citizens to own, hence the friendly reminders and "What did you buy, please tell us" letters.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Lesson: Never trust the British

tj2001cobra
Monday, September 19, 2011 5:02:36 PM
For all those asking, the company is PE. I dont know why someone couldn't have posted that in the first damn place.

BuckyB93
Monday, September 19, 2011 5:04:51 PM

If we are thinking of the same incident, that was someone else. They had two processors, one was based in Hong Kong, one was based in the UK (Ireland I believe). Somehow the UK one's records got to the US Government. The Government didn't know what people bought, just that they bought something, but not everything that the vendor offered was illegal for US citizens to own, hence the friendly reminders and "What did you buy, please tell us" letters.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Yeah, that sounds about right. Those memory cells are starting to wake up now. I was a bit (tiny bit) worried when I first got the letter but then seeing that I wasn't the only one and it appeared that they were fishing, I just chucked the letter.

Government wanting you to nark yourself out OUTRAGE!

Besides, I didn't buy any Cuban cigars from them. Just a humidor and some boxes of smiley face matches that they got from a liquidation sale of some sort.

fishinguitarman
Monday, September 19, 2011 5:05:47 PM

What about me!?!?!?!??!?!?!

[ram27bat]

nickatnite wrote:

my bad....

BuckyB93
Monday, September 19, 2011 5:09:06 PM

For all those asking, the company is PE. I dont know why someone couldn't have posted that in the first damn place.

tj2001cobra wrote:

What does Physical Education have to do with overseas transactions? Someone doing some illegal towel snapping or Icy Hot in the Jock trick again?

wheelrite
Monday, September 19, 2011 6:19:50 PM
I suggest you girls put on your aprons and get dinner ready....

[whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] [whip] 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣

wheel,

rfenst
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Monday, September 19, 2011 6:27:43 PM

Hey ya bunch of sissies,,,

It's called "Risk,Reward"

remember when you used to buy a big sack of weed from some dude you didn't know.Sometimes it was crap.Other times it was primo..

same thing as this...

Man Up...

wheelrite wrote:

O Wheel, you are just so... utilitarian.

Jeremy Bentham would love you!

rfenst
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Monday, September 19, 2011 6:33:45 PM

Woah. Fenser and Donut just agreed on something.

This is a sure sign of the apocalypse.

Next thing we know, SteveR will be back, telling us how much he enjoys Fuente cigars and listening to Lawrence Welk.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Yeah, go figure that Donut is finally right for once...

(LMAO at my own wise-crack!)

wheelrite
Monday, September 19, 2011 6:34:09 PM

O Wheel, you are just so... utilitarian.

Jeremy Bentham would love you!

rfenst wrote:

Utilitarian ?

No,I'm a Catholic...

Slimboli
Monday, September 19, 2011 6:38:45 PM

Woah. Fenser and Donut just agreed on something.

This is a sure sign of the apocalypse.

Next thing we know, SteveR will be back, telling us how much he enjoys Fuente cigars and listening to Lawrence Welk.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Hey TG ... I'm Dickens, He's Fenster [frypan]

rfenst
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Monday, September 19, 2011 6:42:10 PM

Utilitarian ?

No,I'm a Catholic...

wheelrite wrote:

Qell, then I guess that makes you trinitarian too.

Slimboli
Monday, September 19, 2011 6:44:45 PM

For all those asking, the company is PE. I dont know why someone couldn't have posted that in the first damn place.

tj2001cobra wrote:

Because they must know better. We all know that we don't post Cigar vendors (especially for Cuban Cigars) on the CB forums.

Have we all forgoten .. or just don't give a 'chit' anymore ?!?

Honesly ... the monitors must not have seen this one ... or I am sure it would have been pulled, or at the least ... those that posted the venors name, initials, or whatever would have had their post 'yanked'.

Just saying what I know ... 🌫

rfenst
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Monday, September 19, 2011 6:45:03 PM
Update:

The mailman was "very good and yellow" to me today.

Under the circumstances, reporting non-delivery would be a lie.

Slimboli
Monday, September 19, 2011 6:47:34 PM

Update:

The mailman was "very good and yellow" to me today.

Under the circumstances, reporting non-delivery would be a lie.

rfenst wrote:

rfenst ... sometimes you lawyers reallly get to me. Honestly ... all this 'retoric' for 'nuthin.

rfenst
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Monday, September 19, 2011 9:53:06 PM

rfenst ... sometimes you lawyers reallly get to me. Honestly ... all this 'retoric' for 'nuthin.

Slimboli wrote:

Huh?

dubleuhb
Monday, September 19, 2011 10:03:14 PM
So the question now is, will anyone use them again ? I probably will but wait awhile to see if they get this issue straightened out.
rfenst
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Monday, September 19, 2011 10:30:11 PM

So the question now is, will anyone use them again ? I probably will but wait awhile to see if they get this issue straightened out.

dubleuhb wrote:

If they don't hold back on any orders they haven't been paid on by their card processor, that would indicate to me that they honored transactions despite losing their tail on them. That has to be a big plus. if that is all that this is about, they got screwed, but didn't screw any customers as a result. This is not and endorsement, just one perspective of the situation. What I still don't like is offering a 20% discount for customers to go back to their banks to lay their bad business decision on the bank, credit card company or insurer.

dubleuhb
Monday, September 19, 2011 10:34:40 PM
Understood, I just hope for them that it wasn't a last ditch effort to get his cash flow going and this will put him down in the end. Sometimes desperate measures are taken to save what you have.