jjanecka
9 years ago
I haven't really bought much at all this year amd don't really plan to unless prices take a nose dive.
MACS
9 years ago

Whats going on with the prices? I see idiots bidding on a lot of items much more than You can by them on Cigars international or its some kind of computer trick?

paulie970 wrote:



I find it ironic when an idiot calls someone an idiot.
95BSharpshooter
9 years ago

the cigar prices is too damn high

namadio wrote:



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.
Hillbillyjosh770
9 years ago

I'm not an idiot
I'm a winner

gummy jones wrote:



Bourbon out the nose
Ruby
9 years ago
If they would just start producing cigars in China we would get them dirt cheap.
Zigarro
9 years ago

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

MACS wrote:


YOU would.
opelmanta1900
9 years ago

If they would just start producing cigars in China we would get them dirt cheap.

Ruby wrote:


They're called 5V's...
chazbo
9 years ago
I can't believe people are bidding much higher on lots since the meltdown several months ago. I really think they have fixed the lots to a minimum price the company is willing to lose. Phantom bidders[ram27bat]
chazbo
9 years ago
Since the meltdown winners are paying way more than before. Do you believe more folks are bidding or is something going on. I would always win several lots throughout the week but now using the same bidding numbers, nothing:-k
bs_kwaj
9 years ago

"Prices are too damn high!"

🍺
chazbo
9 years ago
I smell something rotten and it ain't my feet😡
Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago

I smell something rotten and it ain't my feet😡

chazbo wrote:



Try washing your junk...needs washed more than once a month. Problem solved.
opelmanta1900
9 years ago
they're definitely recovering losses by artificially inflating the prices on here...
opelmanta1900
9 years ago
and there are other auction sites... even before the meltdown here I was scoring way better deals on way better cigars than what they have here... this place is like one giant gurkha: overpriced, overhyped, and really only impressive to noobs...
Hillbillyjosh770
9 years ago
Back when I was a young wipper snapper, and prices became to high at Da General store.
Da General would give us store credit.

Ask nicely, they might oblige.
KingoftheCove
9 years ago

and there are other auction sites... even before the meltdown here I was scoring way better deals on way better cigars than what they have here... this place is like one giant gurkha: overpriced, overhyped, and really only impressive to noobs...

opelmanta1900 wrote:


+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
opelmanta1900
9 years ago

+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

KingoftheCove wrote:


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
jjanecka
9 years ago
Yeah, I know personally I'm done with bidding. It's not worth it anymore.
midmofan
9 years ago
My last bid here was several months ago and it was a mistake - hit the "free fall" button due to airplane turbulence! FWIW, they arrived promptly and in good shape and were a (very slight) savings off off other sites normal prices. Nevertheless, I have not seen anything on here in quite a while where it is really worth the time and trouble of bidding for the prices that they wind up selling for.
Hillbillyjosh770
9 years ago
The days of 60.00 boxes of Melanie Maduro is over.
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?
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