Cohiba and Trinidad is piling up in Cuba....

[SCgarman]

6 hours ago, Lamboinee said:

The horse says "NAAAAAYYYYY". Nay I say.

We all seem to be relying on anecdotal evidence that supports the perspective that we all "want" to be true.  We are like McDonald's workers making minimum wage who one day read a google news post about how so-and-so revolted and demanded $20/hr to work at McDonalds. So, we put a sign on the door that says the manager sucks and treats us like slaves. Then, we take the bus home and meander through life till we take a new job at Burger King making the same/similar wage that we made at McD's.  I should know...I read that same google news post. McDonald's doesn't care. They don't have to.  Habanos doens't care. They don't have to. Their own citizens are hungry and poor and still NO ONE cares.

Yes, I am using anecdotes to prove my point about how the other anecdotes are wrong. But, no one cares.

The strategy is to milk the consumer base for all it's worth and every consumer good seems to have followed that path until they cash out for whatever reason.  There's a powerpoint somewhere outlining the "3 steps to market milking for consumer/luxury goods".  Land Rovers have turn signals that blink when you open the glove box.  The solution...make them cost more and make them status symbols that way their blinker bullocks will be seen as "eccentricities of the luxury life". 

Habanos knew everyone would be pissed, cause uh people don't like being told what to do or spending more money...just like the Cubans are probably pissed off every time they have to use a ration book to buy food.  And no one cares.  Habanos was so underwhelmed with our discontent that they raised the prices again a few months after the largest increase in history.  Please sir, may I have another. It hurts so good though. No one cares.

Why would habanos stop now? Because some boxes piled up at a bunch of duty free shops? There's doody in that duty free shop argument. No way. They making uber-status symbols and people will buy them at whatever price. We might as well put red-bottoms on the bottoms of all Cohibas (hey that's not a bad idea...Jimmy Chohibas) I think we should start shoring up funding so that we can open a bank and finance high interest loans over 30 years and sell them to low-income cigar smokers.  Finance your 1997 Dodge Dart along with 8.9% on 3 Cohiba Robustos.  Dartbustos me gustos.    

My calculator (it's on my watch) says that if they sell a ton of Behikes at 1 billion doll hairs, then they don't care if a ton of siglo-minis pile up at a duty free shop costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.  That's undeniably good dam math that resembles fact people.....plus they'll just sell them back to us as "vintage" in the future.  People love old antique mini stuff....like small porcelain gnome figurines. 

I want to believe what everyone says about the difficulties that Habanos is having after their price increase.  But, the only evidence I really see supporting that viewpoint is my own bias and my foolish desire to "hope".  Habanos isn't having trouble......people that can't afford Behikes are having trouble, like they always have. My life is truly tragic folks, I've never actually had a Cohiba....it's so embarrassing at tax time.  No one cares.

The worst part is that we consumers are doing nothing to help ourselves. 24:24 sells out daily (and it should, it's a dam beacon of light in this whole ordeal imo and it's become the only place I purchase whether directly or downstream when I trade or buy on Bond Roberts). But the point is....we are still buying CC's because we want them. We want them.  I like buying them as much as smoking them. WE WANT THEM, which is why market milking works. But, eventually, will be feeding our tails to our heads.  I do love tail steak.

Cigars that everyone says are "outrageously priced" seem to sell out on online retailer's regularly.  I once heard a reputable cigar industry say that "all cigars will sell eventually"....and they will. 

I am buying stuff off Bond Roberts at a price that is probably more than what some of y'all would ever consider paying because I haven't had a lot of CC's and the prices on regional stuff ain't that bad compared to the $30 Opus I was already smoking.  Monte 4's BLEW MY FRIGGIN MIND y'all. If I can smoke those at $300/box I almost feel like I'm saving money compared to the $18-30 NC's that I was already buying. 

The scenario was likely very clear to the illuminatahabanos reptile lords.... Will dummy yank justify a $300 box MC 4's .....or, smoke a Chinchilla Yard 'Gar from the Nickleback NC collection?  They knew I would overpay and that some other slack jawed mouth breather would fill in behind me and buy the Marvel Universe Maravillas.

I am also concerned with how the NC outbreak is being billed, by some, as the "fill-in" panacea for the downtrodden CC world.  Keep yo stank finger out my NC kool-aid bowel unless you're gonna make it sweeter!  That whole situation is likely to exacerbate the CC problems while placing immense burden on the NC manufacturers. Which will leave me, AND EVERYONE, smoking overpriced CC's and/or NC's that have quality control issues and which are likely overpriced as well.  I don't wanna share my NC's with the world if it means everything just gets worse for all cigars and more expensive on everything.  I want everything for nothing.  I think that's in the Constitution.

Revolt. Let's form a Union. Let's demand standards. Let's do it now.  24:24 seems to have standards and respect....and we all seem to like it....let's demand that others follow those standards.  Up with hope, down with dope. I'm ready, but you have to go first because I have a whole sciatica issue. 

How many more entitled yuppies have to suffer before we take action?

Chez friggin Gueverra! Aaron Tippin once said "you gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything".  If we take a stand the only thing that will fall is CC prices and interest rates.

We can make a better future.

I reserve the right to disavow all knowledge of this post and/or amend its content after a period of reflection and embarrassment.

This post is for satirical purposes only. Unless you agree.

 

 

 

So you think "300" dollar Monte4 is a bargain? LOL. I was buying lots of boxes of them not too long ago for less than $150/box. They can keep them now at $300+

[jakebarnes]

This thread has a lot of clouds to yell at. 

[Lamboinee]

13 hours ago, rcarlson said:

Abbie Hoffman live

when I google that guy (it's a guy btw, not a woman, woops) it says he died of an intentional phenobarbital overdose....that sounds horrible.
 

 

11 hours ago, SCgarman said:

o you think "300" dollar Monte4 is a bargain

I did.....until I read on some forum that they used to cost like $150.00....remember, I didn't really dive deep into the CC world until about 1.5 years ago. In the beginning, I was just happy to have a 3 pack of MC 2's. Ignorance is bliss and knowledge breeds agony. The cheapest I have ever seen/paid for MC4's was just over $200.  I'm feeling everyone's pain as I watch them climb to $300.  They're still tasty morsels though and I love when I share one with a friend who has never had a CC....it's like watching a kid take a drink of fresh squeezed orange juice when they've only ever had concentrate.

[Frinkiac7]

On 1/15/2023 at 8:35 AM, helix said:

Disgusting.  I am in the DR smoking excellent custom rolls from a small shop in PP. 6.30$ CAN. TORO size. Screw HSA!

Lol I think I have been to that shop!