is Habanos.com (serial checker) ALWAYS right?

[riazp]

If it helps any, my buddy brought me back a box of diplo 4s from cuba, and beleive me I know they are real, they had that unmistacable Diplo flavors, but the serial code never checked out on habanos website...maybe they dont bother with boxes they dont export? who knows, if they look real and taste real, odds are they are real.

[laficion]

Hi DarkSky,

I've just put in your serial No. in and here's what came out for both.

The product is original from Habanos S.A.

HSA: 10.9071.17.0190

Descripcion: MONTECRISTO MONTECRISTO No.2 CB-UW-C/L-12,13-n-25

The product is original from Habanos S.A.

HSA: 10.9071.17.0190

Descripcion: MONTECRISTO MONTECRISTO No.2 CB-UW-C/L-12,13-n-25

I hope this helps .

[scradley]

I also entered both of your serial #'s for your monte 2's and they checked out just like the post above..

I did it at the same time I checked my 4 boxes I purchased at the LCDH on Calle 63 in Varadero last month.

[DarkSky]

GET THIS! :

I just went back onto the Habanos S.A. genuinity of cigar checker thingy - and both boxes are NOW VALID. !!! So just goes to show you, for all of those people demanding people post box codes on their sell/trade posts - THEY DON'T MEAN SQUAT!!

A few weeks ago their site was saying my 2 boxes of Monte #2's were invalid. Now it says this:

Still has a weird date stamp, but the code is right, and the actual CIGAR tastes dead-on to my other Monte 2's. So I'm going to classify them in my head a genuine Montecristo No.2

[Lastroll]

Darksky,

It's a very common practice for counterfeiters to go into a LCDH shop and copy the codes of authentic Cuban warranty seals and then easily counterfeit the seal with the copied code deeming all the counterfeit boxes that they slapped a seal on as genuine and authentic.

That would explain the "weird date stamp". I'm not saying this is your case but it happens all the time.

[DarkSky]

Darksky,

It's a very common practice for counterfeiters to go into a LCDH shop and copy the codes of authentic Cuban warranty seals and then easily counterfeit the seal with the copied code deeming all the counterfeit boxes that they slapped a seal on as genuine and authentic.

That would explain the "weird date stamp". I'm not saying this is your case but it happens all the time.

So they can go to all that trouble, get into the LCDHs, counterfeit the seal, counterfit the box code, the box, the cigar, etc, etc, etc...

... BUT THEY CAN'T SPELL THE DATE RIGHT!?

And my codes WERE coming up as invalid on the site, but now the site says they ARE valid. And my codes haven't changed. So if they were copied codes they'd come up as valid at the beginning.

Doesn't matter - I've smoked one and they're Monte 2's. Flavor is the best (and sometimes the only) way to measure a cigars authenticity