B & M, or Online?
Me 5-10% local B & M
Rest online because of price.
Me 5-10% local B & M
Rest online because of price.
Where do you buy your Cigars?
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At the local B&M most of the time.
I like to keep the local shopkeepers in business so it's B&M for me. Fincks is the one I shop at.
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Well I get maybe 5 email a day from the Online forks, every once in a while they have some GREAT DEAL. Years ago I go some Aladino's at $35.00/20 Pack, still have a few in my Humidor. Today the same stick are over $7.00/Stick, I scored.
Always B & M.
Specifically from Smokin Joe's in Pennsylvania.
Specifically from Smokin Joe's in Pennsylvania.
I usually buy from Pipes and Cigars on line. Occasionally, I travel to the reservation and wander around the humidors in some of the smoke shops.
In the old mail order days I used to buy from an outfit in Texas. Fincks rings a bell but I might be wrong. Before covid got me I ordered online from Holts.
Usually online, whoever has the best special I like, Famous Smokes, Thompson, or CI. But CI has a B&M near the Hamburg, PA Cabela's, I stop in when I go by it.
The days of the mom & pop smoke shops are over, not enough smokers left to keep them going, unfortnately.
The days of the mom & pop smoke shops are over, not enough smokers left to keep them going, unfortnately.
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I will add Neptune in Miami because of great selections, and Cigars Daily because of Great Prices.
Both places also have real deal Cigar Experts on site who answer phone, and know Cigars.
99% of the time it's with the same mom and pop shop that I've used for over 25 years. Mostly because it's technically illegal for sellers to ship tobacco products directly to the consumer in my state (but I know a couple that will still ship). Plus, they are also cheaper on both pipe tobacco and cigars, if considering the cost of shipping.
I try to buy local whenever possible. I don't mind paying a little extra to keep a neighbor fed. We still have a nice mom & pop a few miles away.
If I can't find it or get it locally, I will sometimes go to any of the larger east coast online vendors (excluding Thompson).
I usually know exactly what I want, so tend to buy on price when I do that.
If I can't find it or get it locally, I will sometimes go to any of the larger east coast online vendors (excluding Thompson).
I usually know exactly what I want, so tend to buy on price when I do that.
There is a nice place bout 45 min away from me where I've stocked up a few time. But damn is it expensive. Just a rough ballpark estimate.....25-35% more than online. That's quite significant when you are re-stocking a humidor. I typically go big stocking up once every couple years, I'm due right now.
Other than the cost I don't see any other downside of B&M. You can see your cigars before you buy them, pick out the good ones, find ones you've never heard of or tried a lot easier, and 9/10 they are perfectly humidified.
I've made a couple online purchases where they were not shipped with a Boveda pack, the cigars arrived in yellowed cellophane and were dry, and were not packaged very well for shipping. But....you do save on the cost of the cigars. So win some loose some.
I'm probably just going to try a few different spots locally to re-stock this time. And I don't mean gas stations or convenience stores because I've never seen any that were well kept and properly humidified.
[rant] I got friends that like to smoke and they don't even keep their cigars humidified. They keep them in a humidor but with no device to maintain humidity. I ALWAYS bring my own smokes when I visit. it just baffles me why you'd spend $$$ on good cigars and then not care of them. [/rant]
Other than the cost I don't see any other downside of B&M. You can see your cigars before you buy them, pick out the good ones, find ones you've never heard of or tried a lot easier, and 9/10 they are perfectly humidified.
I've made a couple online purchases where they were not shipped with a Boveda pack, the cigars arrived in yellowed cellophane and were dry, and were not packaged very well for shipping. But....you do save on the cost of the cigars. So win some loose some.
I'm probably just going to try a few different spots locally to re-stock this time. And I don't mean gas stations or convenience stores because I've never seen any that were well kept and properly humidified.
[rant] I got friends that like to smoke and they don't even keep their cigars humidified. They keep them in a humidor but with no device to maintain humidity. I ALWAYS bring my own smokes when I visit. it just baffles me why you'd spend $$$ on good cigars and then not care of them. [/rant]
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Me 5-10% local B & M
Rest online because of price.
