A lot of old guys still aren't online. I know dudes in their 50s and 60s who have never been on the internet. Plus, B&Ms with smoking lounges are gonna get people who can't/don't want to smoke in their houses or garages. And it's common courtesy to buy a few sticks at a B&M that lets you smoke there.

borndead1 wrote:

My old S&M place

USNGunner wrote:

... Then I say to myself..."Self, who cares, light that **** and move on"

berbendreenker wrote:

I've paid more than full price for many cigars here in SoCal...the tobacco tax and regular sales tax adds another layer of cost to the MSRP that most B&M's here charge for their stock...I'm paying for the chance to try a cigar that I can't find as a single elsewhere, or that I need to fill space and can't wait the week of so transit time from an on-line dealer...

It's always good to meet up with a CBid BOTL at a smoking lounge for a herf, and the price for the privilege is to pay full freight plus for 2 or more smokes...

delta1 wrote:

Discovery of cost was rough. Google delivered me to cheaper options and eventually found the auction sites that way. That was the exact moment I understood Mrs. Beach's Kohls logic. Look at the money I'm saving! Buy! Buy! Buy!

In retrospect I feel pretty guilty about the hard time I gave to the Jamaican shopkeep trying to haggle over that first cigar, a (allegedly) CC Montecristo. $12 just sounded ludicrous to a longterm cigarette smoker at the time.

Random side note: Does there seem to be rash of random noob threads that post and then disappear? Kinda like a forum ninja

Sunoverbeach wrote: