One last thing. Remove "stick" from your vocabulary. It makes you sound like a serf.

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Met a nice gal by the name of Quality once in Oklahoma

What was her response when you introduced yourself? Moo or oink?

She’d do anything I wanted for 25 dollahh

Big money. I remember a girl named Fifi down in the Dominican Republic that would offer to take you around the world for $10. But, all one had to do was keep saying "2 dolla, 2 dolla" and she would give in after a minute or so. I saw a line of guys about 8 deep at her door one night when I was on shore leave so I passed. Good thing. Within a day or 3 all of them ended up getting penicillin shots from the corpsman.

Well thats interesting history about the cigar world and travel for pleasure meetings,
I myself make and sell handmade products so I do know that there can be bad products at times but I consider myself a master at what I do.
So my quality rating is a 4.8 out of 5 stars with over 25,000 sales in the last 2 years over 5k five star reviews I make over 12,000 items per year by hand,
With that being said I have tried some super premiums like Padron and a few of the others just didn't feel like it was worth it
but I also feel like cigars in the $10-20 range even if sold here for $2 or $3 should smoke perty good for a person who smokes 3 to 6 a day
just recently I have the time to finish a cigar "business slowed down" and found this website and have been not as happy with the cigars that come from here compared to some other places I been buying them for the last year or so.

Woke up in the wee hours to wee wee and thought about what I wrote earlier about the camaraderie here and how long it’s been going so I drilled down the membership list to see who’s been here the longest. I found two things. One of which is sad indication of the future.

First, there are 4-5 guys who joined back in 2000. But, that’s misleading since there was a purge and restart so some of those guys may have been here longer.

The other thing I noticed was a sad indication of the looming future. I remember some letters had 2 or 3 pages of members. IIRC a full page used to be about 35 or so. Now, the most members for any letter is around 25-30. At least 5 letters didn’t have any members and another 4-5 had no more than 5-10. Looks like we’re losing members much, much faster than we’ve gaining.

Along the way, we’ve lost the noob/vet pairing as well as the HOTM. This place just isn’t the same anymore.

That's is a very long time heck I'm only 34 so some of yallbbeen here before I was even legal age geeze

Hopefully you understand this place a little better. If you do you’ll find the value isn’t the cigars, but the people.

Here’s another piece of advice. Re-read your posts. Then re-read the other ones. Notice anything? Going forward I’d recommend that you proofread what you write before you hit the post button. No one likes reading something that requires a special decoder ring to decipher the context of what it is the author is trying to convey. Make sure you use paragraphs and avoid slang. Also, limit your sentences to single thoughts. Use periods to end a sentence. Put spaces between your sentences. Begin a new sentence for a new thought. Use paragraphs when transitioning to new ideas.

When in Rome…

Yea fat fingers on a Samsung keyboard definitely requires some proof reading, and Im usually always rushed and it's a habit because some days I get so many messages from customers.

If you cruise over to the Cigar discussion threads you’ll find plenty of conversations about various CIGARS. This is a good place to get recommendations on things to buy. Also, which out the “what are xxxx cigar are you smoking thread”. It will give you a sense of what we smoke. If you’re an indulger of adult beverages there are a few threads specific to different spirits and fermented beverages as well.

Ok I appreciate the help, I will get the humidity lower and rest the cigars from here.
I will also use them for my I'm to buzy to smoke so I'll light and take a few puffs and try to make it back before it goes out cigars, basically your yard cigars.

Easy way to test, get a Tupperware container with an O ring, put a couple cigars in it with a 69% Boveda for a week.

Try one then.

What kind of handmade products may I ask? 🤔

Everything Abrignac said above is 10000% true. Take it from me. Smoking a long long time, and up to the last few years most of it was crap. I learned the hard way about the guys here. They were here before me and know more about cigars than I do.
You're gonna get your feelings hurt and your ego bruised. Eventually you’ll realize that a lot of these guys are just f’ing around and mean no harm… but they take this chit seriously and rightfully so. It’s an expensive hobby and they’ve put a lot of dime and time into it. Listen to them, take some advice, open your mind and you’ll be rewarded with a lot of laughs and some good knowledge. Yeah there are a few jerks but they usually present themselves early on and you’ll recognize an azzhat pretty quickly. The guys on this thread now are rock solid. Take their advice!
Remember. Eventually you will realize it’s better to smoke one or two great cigars than 5 or 6 chitty ones.
Just my 2 cents. Welcome aboard!

Yes Sir, what they all said above. Some good people here. You'll learn a lot as I did.

Most of the cigars I buy are from other places but there are still a few I get here like Cohiba Black. However, you can't smoke them for at least a couple months but when you do get them to the right moisture level they're great. Most cigars are better after a few months or even years.

Have you tried Arturo Fuente? I'm a big fan as are a few others around here.

^this. There are other sites with better selections, but for the nuts and bolts of day to day smoking, your Camacho, Oliva, Perdomo, Cohibas, Rocky’s, and 5 Vegas ( don’t know anyone who smokes them but they are ubiquitous on the site) you get really good deals.
And yeah AF should be on your list.

ratings are nothing but someone's opinion, either valid and only useful to them or because they got $$$ to rate it. cigars are no different then whiskey, coffee, beer, food or whatever... just because someone else considers it good, high quality and/or tasty does not mean you will agree. unless you know who is rating it and have tested your own tastes against that persons the rating means nothing.

i watch a few different youtube cigar channels and i have learned over time that some of them i usually agree when they say it is a tasty cigar or what flvor profiles they get and my taste tends to line up with that persons. others i have learned have different preference then i do and the cigars they tend to really love i am usually not a fan of. so i have to take the rankings/ratings of cigars from each of those people and weight them differently.

many cigars smokers LOVE RP, others HATE RP... i fall in the middle. i really enjoy the RP sungrown Maduro and the "ocean" i also keep some RP edge around but more for when i am out working in the yard or doing some task that i dont need or want to pay attention to the cigar (some call this a yard gar). other RP i tend to not enjoy. same goes for Drew Estate. the LIga and Undercrown lines are spoken very highly of by most... yet you will see some on this forum, and everywhere else for that matter that do not like them...

you will need to try as many brands and lines as possible and in different sizes because some cigars taste completely different in robusto then they do in a toro or Churchill and different still in Lancero. just keep smoking...

I still burn a rocky here and there. Kinda like the royale . Not the vintage. Just the regular royale.

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No issue with Rocky’s cigars. Some I like better than others but that goes for almost any brand