There is no question about this. You can go in some brick and mortars and it looks like a CI catalog.

Of course, you also have to consider all the guys who sell cigars on Yahoo auctions. They're far too small to even buy from local distributors, so they buy here and at other vendors, when they have slash and burn closeouts.

Steve*R - that's exactly what I was referring to.

There is a guy in this area who sells cigars to golf club pro shops who in turn sell singles to the golfers. He buys his smokes from the same retailers I do--I have seen the return addresses on a couple of packages that were unopened.

He has no storefront so I guess the only way he could have a problem is if the tax folks spent a lot of time on golf courses. 🙂

I haven't met the person but I wouldn't be surprised if he was unaware of the potential pitfalls of his operation.

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There was a shop in MA that had the same 5 packs and other products(Even found a smiley face😁) sold exclusively through CI (& P&C or Cigars). Now it is possible he looked out for sales and the like from the mother-ship and/or her siblings (P&C or Cigars). However I would put money that his hunting ground. was right here on cbid. There are also a number of eBay folks who resell items.

Wow- revived after 3 years ! Internet cigars at shop prices - how could you go wrong ? I wonder if they paid Mass tax on them.

Look again, Tony. Revived after 13 years, not 3.

David

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You probably ought to be. It's valuable business intelligence/metrics and unless your database is designed really badly, it should be pretty easy to do. The aggregation code, DB tables, necessary SQL queries and a nice web-based interface (available internally only, not to customers!) for generating reports, running queries, etc. is all pretty simple. I know because I design and code that kind of stuff all the time.


A few possibilities:

1. They enjoy having a very large collection.

2. They're buying flavorful cigars very heavily now at cheap prices to avoid having to pay huge highly-taxed prices for tightly-regulated, bland, flavorless, FDA-approved blends 5 or 10 or more years from now.

3. They're buying cigars very heavily now to beat inflation in prices (although that involves "opportunity cost", what you could've otherwise done with the money).

4. They enjoy experimenting with super-long-term aging.

Or, any combination of these 4 reasons.
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To me The Tell-Tale sign that dealers are stocking up is not in the cigars it's in the merchandise. You cannot make an argument that someone is using 20 travel humidors or 20 cigar cutters.

Or it could be people buying at CBID and reselling the stuff on EBAY.

Yep, that's my thought. There's money to made if you don't mind the monotony, sounds boring af to me though.

When I worked at a smoke shop I routinely filled customer requests for non tobacco merchandise through cbid...

This.

I bid on “cigar juice” just the other night. 35 lots total. One buyer quadrupled the price for me when they bought 20 lots. Who uses that many 16 oz containers of humidifier solution?

A dealer or someone reselling them, that’s who.

Irritating...

it's good wif vodka...

I just bid on ten lots of ten cigars each. And I guarantee I’ll smoke every single one of them if I win the bid. Some of us just enjoy the great deals we can get in here.

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