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BuckyB93
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#21

MAP pricing pretty much ruined this place for me. Just can't find many I'm looking for here any more.

deadeyedick wrote:

Only 5 cigars I shop for here.
I will occasionally shop for yard gars, and have scored well on those, and I’ll bid on pipe baccy and sometimes win at very good prices.

KingoftheCove wrote:

+1

There are a small handful of inexpensive cigars that I'll by as smokes for walking around/handing out to non cigar folks/gardening/fishing, etc... but the days of getting the next level up or higher at a discount here has been gone for a while now.

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DonJaime
Enthusiast

3 years ago

#22

I started buying here a couple of months ago and have dropped way more coin that I expected. I really enjoy Excalibur No. 1. a box retails for ~$145. I scored 2 boxes here for around $70 each. I also set myself a limit of $5 per cigar, and have been able to pick up a bunch of 5 and 10 packs of Nubs, Flatheads, CAO blacks, diesels, Rocky Patel 10 year, and Vintage etc. so im really happy with that.

Wish they had decent Fuentes besides curlyheads though, and price could certainly be better on My Father and AJ Fernandez.

So I stick around for what they have, and go elsewhere for what they dont have

jeremyledoux
Rookie

3 years ago

#23

I just started here as well and have been scooping up Cohiba red dots and maduros for under 5 a stick, some montes and buffalo traces for super reasonable prices even compared to the 3 other online shops I used to use before finding CBid. I do however hope the luster of this site wears off for me because I'll be blowing a check in here no problem otherwise.

Tiver
Aficionado

3 years ago

#24

jeremyledoux wrote:

That is a high price for the red. Exercise some restraint and put the auctions in your lot watch just for tracking prices. Some days of the week are not days that things go cheap. Other days you can find much better deals. One thing you can do is watch for auctions that have a lot of units available. Auctions with one or two units are tougher

BuckyB93
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#25

If and when I do bid on cigars here I use the max bid option. Set it at about 60-65% the price listed on Cigars International. If I win, fine. If I don't, also fine.

Stogie1020
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#26

I just won a few auctions on CBid, but it will likely be my last unless I forget this experience... It;s not the ordering, the pricing or the slow shipping (all the usual complaints). It's the shipping charges. I really needed a few boveda packs, so once I won them, I bid on two different five packs of cigars and won. So, total of ten cigars and four bovedas. Shipping is $11.45. That's just bananas. I could order a full box of cigars from anywhere else and pay maybe $5-8 shipping. I love you CBid, but I am not ordering here simply due to the shipping gouging. Pretty sure they are charging me $1 PER boveda as an "accessory" item add-on inthe shipping 'saver' program.

1st 5er - $6.95
2nd 5er - $0.50
4x bovedas - $4.00

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KingoftheCove
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#27

Stogie1020 wrote:

Stogie, how do you think the lights stay on there?
Of course you are paying $1/Boveda for shipping………….them things is HEAVY!

Thank you for your contribution.

Stogie1020
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#28

Stogie, how do you think the lights stay on there?
Of course you are paying $1/Boveda for shipping………….them things is HEAVY!

Thank you for your contribution.

KingoftheCove wrote:

Just got a (fast!) reply to my email to CBid... It said "sorry not sorry."

ZRX1200
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#29

Don’t forget the “handling”!!!

tonygraz
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#30

And then there are state taxes. My last order was 15% shipping and taxes. Smaller orders will have larger percentages. Still better than other places in per cigar costs.

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LeeBot
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#31

😁

Don’t forget the “handling”!!!

ZRX1200 wrote:

Yeah, I've placed larger orders on here and been hit with a $35 shipping charge when any other online retailer would have gladly shipped them for free. The $1 per extra item is great psychological trick to get us to order more (I do) AND charge more for shipping. They tricky bastids.

KingoftheCove
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#32

That is the great thing about the Page.
Free, and FAST shipping.
And they do have good deals from time to time.

As many have noted, the glory days here and at the other place are looooong gone.
Heck, even the mb3 place only has CRAP in their CLEARANCE section.
One used to score great smokes there years ago…………....like Pre Davidoff Camachos, etc

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Stogie1020
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#33

KingoftheCove wrote:

Here is the thing with that place (I order plenty from there, I am not biased):

The "free shipping" fee is built into the cost of EACH item you order. This is fine if you only order one thing, but as soon as you order a few or a whole bunch, you are now by default paying the "free shipping" fee on each item, despite them being shipped together at a much reduced shipping cost to the retailer.

Mraia
Connoisseur Topic Starter

3 years ago

#34

^now that’s a good tip!👍

Palama
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#35

[KingoftheCove wrote:

Oh yah! I took a little too much time to decide which vitola(s) to get and by the time I decided, iirc, they were sold out of the Robustos and Coronas so got the Nacionales and Petit Coronas instead. Later got some Cetros through an inventory thinning by Napalm.

Stogie1020 wrote:

The small place sometimes bumps up their pricing but not so egregious that it dissuades me from ordering from them when they’re on one day special.

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Stogie1020
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#36

Good reminder Palama, I gotta get on the small place's emails. You know, cause I need ONE MORE cigar retailer emailing me EVERY DAMN DAY...

Aaaaaaannnd, I just siged up for their emails.

Palama
Herf-A-Holic

3 years ago

#37

Good reminder Palama, I gotta get on the small place's emails. You know, cause I need ONE MORE cigar retailer emailing me EVERY DAMN DAY...

Aaaaaaannnd, I just siged up for their emails.

Stogie1020 wrote:

=d>

Because I’ve reduced my buying to a 5er or two, the small place is perfect for me. I also like that they have a Rewards program so after a few orders, I have enough to redeem and use those credits to further reduce my costs.

And yah, the daily e-mails pile up and once in awhile they send their newsletter too so you get a double hit.