Blast from the past.....Your best bargain buy CC?

[EdmundGTP]

Being a late-comer to the CC game, this is a painful thread to scroll. 

[GP012]

On 4/18/2025 at 4:15 AM, Havanaaddict said:

03' Robaina 5th Anniversary Humidor $1300 intact with the 100 cigars!

Same, although I split it with a few guys back in the ICC days.

[gormag38]

I remember paying around $400 for a box of HUSW in 19 or 18. I was sick thinking about the price…man what a steal that was. 

[LOMTL]

 

[Ford2112]

On 4/19/2025 at 12:31 AM, Chas.Alpha said:

I’ll just add insult to injury. Mementos…

Seeing the price on Punch DC is so heartbreaking. 

[Greenhorn2]

I hear Billy Crash Craddock playing in the background. Rub it in, rub it in. I got in a little too late, when most reg production was running around $300 a box. I did manage to snag some CORO for around $450, Esplendidos and Lanceros for sub $800. That didn't seem like much of a deal at the time, though.

I wonder how many are going to Google, "Who the hell is Billy Crash Craddock?"

[Akd313]

Trinidad Topes LE 2016 $300

 

[BoliDan]

JL2 keeps me from getting into too many of my more expensive stash.

[avaldes]

I remember buying Partagas 898V and BBF for $180 back in 2001. I also accidentally bought 2 boxes of COLA for $700. The good old days.

[Rega25]

Por Larranaga Panatelas 2014-2015 were around ($62/box) $2.50 usd per stick when I switched to CC so that was my daily back then. I could order 16 boxes for $1k and give 'em out to friends left and right.

[Ybor]

My very first CC purchase was a 50 cab of Partagas shorts for $240 in December 2021 and I instantly got the bug. I managed to land a couple more purchases before prices went unhinged and now I envy those with deep stacks who were purchasing for decades prior to 2022
 

[Hammer Smokin']

In my mind, my best bargain buy was from 24:24. I just searched my emails for confirmation. 

May 21, 2021. 

Box of 2017 aged Cohiba Robustos (PSP)

$385 USD

The pathetic part is, it wasn't even that long ago!

[X-Man]

£500 quid for this.

 

$1000 bucks for this.

Really should have just bought all the boxes they had to offer.

[Mike Mecklenburg]

I purchased 3 packs of these at 53.70 USD per pack (17.90 per cigar in the tube) in February 2020 at the Media Cohiba Hotel Cigar Store in Havana. At the time I was thinking that this was a good deal.

[Bada_Bing_NJ]

Cohiba Siglo VI Tubos 3 pack for 100€ 

[SonGoku]

These are just some I remember having paid for out of the top of my head over the years:

• €330 for a box of Cohiba EL 2011
• $140 ERDM CC
• $205 Monte No. 2
• Did a box spilt on Cohiba Sublimes EL 2004 where we paid around $18 per stick.
• 2 box deal on PL Montecarlos for $140.
• $185 PLPC.

[djrey]

I miss the sub $100 HUHC and sub $180 PDS4's. What a time to be alive. 

[GVan]

The one's that I think about all the time as I smoke through the boxes that I have:

2 box deals of Boli CJ's for $250 on 11/2020 and still could find that deal through about mid-2021.  Luckily, I bought 12 boxes of 2018 through 2020 MSU and 2021 TUA boxes before these deals stopped.

I probably smoke more of these than any other CC -- 2017 boxes of RGP's  bought in 08/2020 and 09/2020 for $72 / box.  A few members here turned me onto these as a "cheep and cheerfuls".  I bought 14 boxes of Spanish Sourced RGP's back when you could ask the vendors for certain box codes.  At 7.5 years old these short-fillers all taste like JL2's at $2.88 / cigar - wow!  Only 5 boxes left.

[Boxer31]

• Parti P2 from ‘15 under 15 a stick 
• Mag 50 ‘19 10-12 a stick
• Monte 2 anything from ‘18-20.

[Bri Fi]

For everyday smokes 2018/2019:

P2-$270

D4-$185

HU2-$230

I went pretty deep buying back then and am still going through the stash but I wish I would’ve bought 10 more boxes of each. 

For special smokes 2018/2019:

cohiba Espi-15 for $500

Siglo 6-$840

SW-$500

😢