.....you know that feeling when something seems off?

[El Presidente]

 

......but you just can't put your finger on it ? 

 

 

 

[NSXCIGAR]

8-box...must be the original Zodiac release.

[Jimmy_jack]

Legit question…where do you find these?

[El Presidente]

1 hour ago, Jimmy_jack said:

Legit question…where do you find these?

I have a feed from various auction sites. 

it makes my day 

 

[Jimmy_jack]

11 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

I have a feed from variuos auction sites. 

it makes my day 

 

Wow. And they sell? Good grief!

[Ryan]

There is too much of a gap between the top row of white squares and the top of the band. Other than that they're perfect.

On the serious side, there is a real issue happening on social media these days. People are posting up images of Cohiba bands. The fakes, like above, are easy enough to spot. However most people are also calling out real ones as fake. According to Facebook groups, hardly anyone has ever bought an authentic Cohiba.

It's the default, easy, position, call "fake" when there's no skin in the game and say something about the bottom of the Indian head logo being slightly off centre or some other BS, with no regard for the source. The bands are printed in the Netherlands these days so it's not a "it's Cuba" issue, at least not directly.

Unless there's something obviously wrong (in the case of the above pictures, more than one "something") a single image of a band and some of the wrapper cannot prove "fake".

I look at pictures of cigars beside the millimetre scale of rulers nearly every day. In every image the cigar looks 10mm longer than the person who took the picture says it is. I know to believe the person describing the length rather than the image as I know parallax exists. What I'm simply saying is; very often, there's more to proving authenticity than a single image can allow.    

Having said all that, if I had only seen this, like most of us, I'd know the box above is fake.

[BigGuns]

“Can’t” put your finger on it, or “shouldn’t”?  I’m going with the latter

[PigFish]

... do I email Di for these??? About the only Cohibas I can afford! 

-Piggy