Punch 898

[Markspring1978]

40 minutes ago, Fugu said:

name it 'Punch Dalia' or give it one of these odd fantasy names

Lol. Quote of the day. 

[Fugu]

27 minutes ago, Markspring1978 said:

Lol. Quote of the day. 

haha, true, got it!

[tigger]

I find myself pondering these a lot...  

[El Presidente]

Ken and I reviewed them yesterday. Up Friday 

[NSXCIGAR]

On 10/5/2019 at 7:57 AM, Fugu said:

This "lucky 8" thingy is slowly becoming ridiculous.

Should have just called it 8-8-8. Makes as much sense as 8-9-8 and more 8s! 

If they're going to go with Rafael Gonzalez 88 just go 888. Or Ocho Supremas. Or Loco Ochos. 

[Sir Sooty]

On 10/4/2019 at 12:41 PM, El Presidente said:

It is a play by a distributor who knows and is playing to their regional market. 

 

So err... Will we ever see a Australiano RE? Just planting that seed... Hehe 

50 cab lanceros for the win!!!

[ryancuad]

On 10/3/2019 at 4:57 PM, Euripidespants said:

898’s in a box of only 10 cigars? Am I the only one bothered by this? Cigars look good, but that’s still faking the funk.

i agree.  a 10ct box of dalias? sure, sounds cool.  There are other dalias not called "898",  it literally should come in an 898 box just like the germany release did 4 or 5 years ago

[El Presidente]

Price just came in at $255 USD. 

Steep indeed. 

If a box of 25 that would make them $ 637.50   Steep indeed for a Dalia even if it is excellent (and it is). 

8888 boxes of 10. I assume production will go for another 6 months. 

Will they sell out?    They always do.  It is just the timeframe in which they do. 

 

 

 

[westg]

2 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Price just came in at $255 USD. 

Steep indeed. 

If a box of 25 that would make them $ 637.50   Steep indeed for a Dalia even if it is excellent (and it is). 

8888 boxes of 10. I assume production will go for another 6 months. 

Will they sell out?    They always do.  It is just the timeframe in which they do. 

 

 

 

Aus Price ? 

[El Presidente]

3 minutes ago, westg said:

Aus Price ? 

West, PCC set the USD price, but not the AUD. Give me the weekend and I promise to make it as tight as I possibly can. 

[westg]

3 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

West, PCC set the USD price, but not the AUD. Give me the weekend and I promise to make it as tight as I possibly can. 

Thanks RA ...you always have .

[tigger]

That price is pretty absurd.

But so am I sometimes. ?

I love the concept. I'll be buying a box and then seeing what the market does before going any deeper.

 

[Colt45]

45 minutes ago, tigger said:

I'll be buying a box and then seeing what the market does before going any deeper.
 

see the box open, cigars inside

lustrously gleaming, lust cannot hide

boxes in hiding, waiting for the time

demand outrageous, must make them mine

flippers paradise.....

[foursite12]

Rob, any thought to metering these out via box limits?

[Hammer Smokin']

wow, without duty charges, that'll come in at almost $40 CAD a stick.

add duty/excite and are north of $60 CAD.

wow.

(this sure is a rich mans sport)

[Lotusguy]

Rob, any thought to metering these out via box limits?

Why would he need to at that price?? I for one will be buying one box instead of 5 now...

[Hammer Smokin']

If I didn't have to worry about border charges, I likely would too...

you Yanks are extremely lucky!!!!

[dangolf18]

In the cigar world, $25.50 a stick still isn't too terrible. We've become very spoiled with the $10-$15 stick regionals. That said, I wish they were prices like the RA 898 Germany regional lol.

[JoeyBones777]

9 minutes ago, dangolf18 said:

In the cigar world, $25.50 a stick still isn't too terrible.

I tend to disagree. This is ultra premium territory by any standard. I could justify spending $20/ stick on a 10 ct. box for a special occassion cigar but not $25/ stick...at least not right now. They are really pricing large swaths of people out of RE and EL cigars especially given their inconsistency. I was excited for this one. What a shame!

[LLC]

If they priced them lower it would only give more profit to the flippers. They’d rather make the extra money themselves. They will probably sell our eventually anyway and you can always lower a price if need be but it’s harder to raise it.


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[prodigy]

I was really intrigued at first. However, based on the pricing I'll just let the flippers and people with deeper pockets than me try them. Maybe I'll pick up a single in a box pass or something...

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[Kitchen]

At that price, rather buy a box of 25 Punch DCs.  

[garbandz]

nice idea for a new cigar.

bad price.

getting tired of the gouging for money,I miss the days when there was pride in your work and value in the product.

these look like a big margin item to boost revenue,rather than an exercise in customer satisfaction. 

[Diabolicalpherpher]

Why do I get the feeling that it still will be a feeding frenzy, at the level of QdOs when this pops up on 24:24?

[David88]

Although I’m very interested in getting a box of these it’s a steep price point. These are priced higher than lanceros and close to siglo VI.
 

I will wait and see, if they aren’t snapped up too quickly I may pick some up