100 count ?!?!

Does not compute.

bgz wrote:

Licensing system, can't bring handguns/AR-15s anywhere except the gun range.. and can't open/conceal carry anywhere.

Jayslow wrote:

Except if you're a criminal. They ignore all those restrictions.

Pudding Mittens wrote:

Jay, in your search for good stogies, I recommend this guy's review's:

LawOfMD wrote:

Jay, in your search for good stogies, I recommend this guy's review's:

https://kohnhed.com/ 

He pretty much only critiques sticks that friends of his send him, doesn't receive and evaluate free sticks from cigar companies nor does he receive any other form of compensation from them that I can tell. He is as much of a FILTER as he is a PUMP of product and isn't afraid to call Cigar Aficionado/Advisor out on their (often) BS reviews. He calls it as he sees it. Only issue is sometimes friends send him some pretty obscure stuff thats very hard if not impossible to find but a lot of what he reviews can be had right here on CI/Cbid.

He's also a hoot to read - was a bass guitar player for The Police and some other bands and has some great stories that he intermixes with his very colorful reviews.

Naturally everyone has their own tastes and you may end up generally disagreeing with his opinions but it gives you a good place to start IMO.

Also I follow CigarObsession on youtube and halfwheel.com, two other review sites that seem to have set up a good firewall between them and cigar producer influence/money.

Last, as you have suspected, there's a sh.tload of talent and experience here on this site and they can make great, informed recommendations (once you find and mute out the prolific [but minority] very fake Platinum Members Squad (PMS, perfect acronym). Their noble mission is to scare away as much bidding competition as possible w/ sophomoric level hazing and circle jerking. (I'm looking at you TonySpaz [If Bif from BTTF and Brick from Anchorman had a gay love child, that child would be TonySpaz]). Many of these few also suffer from Chronic Stockholm Syndrome. Criticize any aspect of Cbid (present debacle included) and you do so at your own peril. Aside from TonySpaz (I singled him out specifically because he's a PMS leader on very high doses of Midol, is particularly noisome AND is a Hillary Clinton Surrogate) but the rest of the PMS will reveal themselves to you soon enough...probably in response to this post, at my expense I'm sure (hopefully they don't take away my birthday) making it even easier for you to identify. My gift to you, fellow noob.

Enjoy the journey and welcome aboard!

LawOfMD wrote:

Buy a big cooler, then Google coolidor.

You're welcome.

edin508 wrote:

Hey fellas, just joined up over here!

Just recently got into the cigar game. Picked up a sweet 100 count humidor and am going to start building a collection. Was hoping for some recommendations for relatively new cigar smoker! Any suggestions on some sticks that are a MUST try? I see tons of potential on this site! Happy to be here 🇨🇮

Hope to see you all around - just wanted to introduce myself!

-Jayslow, from Vancouver!

Jayslow wrote:

Jay, in your search for good stogies, I recommend this guy's review's:

https://kohnhed.com/ 

He pretty much only critiques sticks that friends of his send him, doesn't receive and evaluate free sticks from cigar companies nor does he receive any other form of compensation from them that I can tell. He is as much of a FILTER as he is a PUMP of product and isn't afraid to call Cigar Aficionado/Advisor out on their (often) BS reviews. He calls it as he sees it. Only issue is sometimes friends send him some pretty obscure stuff thats very hard if not impossible to find but a lot of what he reviews can be had right here on CI/Cbid.

He's also a hoot to read - was a bass guitar player for The Police and some other bands and has some great stories that he intermixes with his very colorful reviews.

LawOfMD wrote:

PM DrMaddVibe. He's a wealth of knowledge on that. Tell him exactly what you are after, that you want some "must try sticks".

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Lol!! Judging by ya boys "fan-page" and sifting through the recent comments... I think i'll keep to myself. Don't wanna get roasted day one now! 🤐

Jayslow wrote:

Phil is a character, to say the least, but I'm not so sure that is totally correct. He does get stuff from companies AFAIK, or at least he used to but I'll admit, I haven't talked to him in a number of years.

BTW, he was in Curved Air with Stewart Copeland (the future drummer for The Police). I don't remember him ever claiming to be a member of The Police though. Maybe as a session player, but I don't recall.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Just my noobness shining through. I've only recently started following him, so I wrote on first impressions here. Very cool that you know the guy. His front page calls out "The Police" as a search term to use if you want to pull up rock and roll stories, but you are probably right, maybe he just ran with Copeland. As far as sticks he evaluates, I recall reading a particular review where he railed on a mainstream reviewer because they talked up a stick which he critiqued as total crap and he couldnt wrap his head around why he said it was so good, come to find out he got the stick from a sales rep of the company explaining to him the disparity. Maybe he used to take sticks from reps and doesn't now on principle? He has lots of review comments from people complaining about CA review being tainted and praising him for not selling out to cigar reps too. Pretty convincing but who knows. Man's gotta eat.

LawOfMD wrote:

If you were to see the price of our cigars, or even tobacco... you'd want to buy elsewhere too! We are taxed ridiculously. Even with the exchange from cdn to usd, it's worth it. I have been ordering all from USA websites, which has saved me some major $. Plus I have family right across the border so shipping isn't an issue! :)

Jayslow wrote:

There's nothing quite like bragging about tax evasion on an online cigar forum!

opelmanta1900 wrote: