Quality control at it's finest.

[Afineash]

Insane....Guaranteed it was most likely theft...

[Fugu]

Well, when you call it a day, you call it a day...

[El Presidente]

  On 4/21/2016 at 7:45 AM, rob said:

Didn't you used to sell KG boxes like that?

They also had to be plugged

[TCContender]

I would think that you could train a monkey to simply give the box a shake and set aside any that rattled due to loose cigars.

[Kbb]

When this happens, can you report it to Habanos SA and get compensated or is it just a cost of doing business with Cuba. Or is it a matter to take up with PCC? I am just wondering if, being a communist based government, does Cuba make things right or if the matter is just swept under the rug.

Purely a question out of curiosity, so I understand if you would rather not answer due to some business reason unknown to me, confidentiality etc.. Thanks.

[el.barbudo]

maybe it was the end of the shift?

[El Presidente]

  On 4/21/2016 at 12:52 PM, Kbb said:

When this happens, can you report it to Habanos SA and get compensated or is it just a cost of doing business with Cuba. Or is it a matter to take up with PCC? I am just wondering if, being a communist based government, does Cuba make things right or if the matter is just swept under the rug.

Purely a question out of curiosity, so I understand if you would rather not answer due to some business reason unknown to me, confidentiality etc.. Thanks.

Simply a price of doing business.

In the scheme of things, if I come across 8 boxes a month then it is .0005%

They will just go to store singles.

If at the end of a few days in the warehouse and I have half a dozen boxes with real anomalies, I check the box codes and look to see if there is a factory, month link. If there is I will take a photo and shoot it to PCC as well as a contact in HSA.

I doubt it goes anywhere from there

[skalls]

1-2-3-4-5, oh time to leave, close enough.

Man, if I half ass anything at work it's my ass hovering over a fire

[Smallclub]

  On 4/21/2016 at 12:52 PM, Kbb said:

I am just wondering if, being a communist based government, does Cuba make things right or if the matter is just swept under the rug.

The nature of the political regime has nothing to do with this. And the people who run Altadis, HSA, the distributors etc. are not exactly "communists"…

[PigFish]

  On 4/21/2016 at 12:30 PM, TCContender said:

I would think that you could train a monkey to simply give the box a shake and set aside any that rattled due to loose cigars.

... monkeys won't work at the rate that the Cuban government mandates, they just don't pay enough to keep one in bananas and peanuts!

-Piggy

[SCgarman]

  On 4/21/2016 at 1:18 PM, el.barbudo said:

maybe it was the end of the shift?

On a Friday and the factory worker was having a few friends over that evening!!

[Ralphanator]

Wow what to say! Unbelievable

[eswary]

  On 4/21/2016 at 12:48 AM, jrusso14 said:

I may shed a tear

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I wouldn't be happy. That's the same feeling of ordering McD's chicken nuggets in the drive thru, only to find out when you get home and they forgot to throw in the sauce.

[Smallclub]

  On 4/23/2016 at 10:57 PM, eswary said:

That's the same feeling of ordering McD's chicken nuggets in the drive thru, only to find out when you get home and they forgot to throw in the sauce.

compare 19 Bolivar Corona Gigantes and a bag of crappy industrial sauce… wow…

[Fugu]

  On 4/23/2016 at 11:54 PM, Smallclub said:

compare 19 Bolivar Corona Gigantes and a bag of crappy industrial sauce… wow…

seems just 7 are missing not 19, so short of sauce plus two crappy nuggets perhaps... lol

[LLumley]

Just send the short boxes to me... I will perform a thorough investigation...... I will report my findings...

[el.barbudo]

  On 4/22/2016 at 2:32 AM, NYCgarman said:

On a Friday and the factory worker was having a few friends over that evening!!

Yep!

[DONSVO]

  On 4/23/2016 at 11:54 PM, Smallclub said:

compare 19 Bolivar Corona Gigantes and a bag of crappy industrial sauce wow

Depending on where you're from and your level of expectations regarding satiating a vice... It could very well be a great analogy!

My big thing is ice cream. I LOVE ice cream but my current diet program does not. My cheat day consists of a very specific banana split: rocky road, chocolate chip and strawberry ice cream, hot fudge on the choco-chip, strawberry topping on strawberry and marshmallow topping on the rocky road. If someone left off any of my toppings or didn't give me my scoop of chocolate chip I might damn well go berserk!

[Ralphanator]

A friend of mine bought a Box of BRC from a 100% Legit source!! Outside of dress box was complete BRC markings inside no BRC but BBF's.How does someone confuse a BRC with a BBF???

[avaldes]

They must have grabbed the wrong stamps! This is an amusing thread since I posted about the anomalous box that Bruce Storey got years ago with the bands under the wrapper. It is hard for a lot of people to believe that QC misses these things in the "normal" distribution chain. But it really does happen. I bet Rob has MANY other weird examples that he has discovered in his many thousands of boxes that he inspects each year.