Phlicker
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While casually flipping through the Fathers' Day edition of Holt's catalog, I was absolutely stunned to read this on the last page:
Thoughts on this? As much as I like Holt's, I find this to be classless. Stop carrying their line and discount your stock on hand if you truly think the ship is sinking, but find a more professional way to promote the sale. I'm not a regular smoker of their products, but for the sake of karma I hope Padilla continues on and releases the next, hot "must have" cigar just so Holt's has to eat some crow on this one.
Did anyone else see this? If so, were you as stunned as I was? I mean, we've all known for awhile now that Pepin and Padilla had parted ways, but Ernie posted back in February indicating that the marca would continue on. Yet here we have Holt's, a retailer of Padilla products, publicly announcing Padilla's demise. I hadn't read it anywhere else before, so at first I thought it was a joke. If it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, however, I really don't get the humor. It's a little too harsh with the "Buh-Bye" and reads like a sort of obituary, despite the "we consider him to be a friend of ours" line (like that'll smooth things over with someone you claim to be friends with after you blast them in your publication). A quick check on Holt's website shows that Padilla has been removed from their alphabetical list of cigars.At one point in time, Ernesto Padilla was looked upon as a rising star in the cigar world. He was young and hungry, and he had a couple of lights-out, cutting edge cigars being manufactured by another rising star: Pepin Garcia. He also had a nice cigar being made in the Oliva factory. He received glowing ratings, lots of publicity, and all seemed to be going well for him. That was a couple years ago. Nowadays, the tide has taken an unfortunate turn for Padilla. Neither Pepin nor Oliva are making cigars for him anymore. We think this means one thing and one thing only: Padilla is on his way out... We have nothing against Padilla personally. In fact, we consider him to be a friend of ours. We simply do not want to get caught sitting on a ton of discontinued, sedentary, totally immobile inventory.
Therefore, we're cutting prices on all Padilla products bigtime! We're slashing prices on Padilla left and right, and blowing this stuff out from not 'till it's gone! Join in on the fun that is "Padilla Madness" and procure yourself some Padilla cigars today. Hey Ernie P., we've got one word for you and one word only: Buh-Bye.
Thoughts on this? As much as I like Holt's, I find this to be classless. Stop carrying their line and discount your stock on hand if you truly think the ship is sinking, but find a more professional way to promote the sale. I'm not a regular smoker of their products, but for the sake of karma I hope Padilla continues on and releases the next, hot "must have" cigar just so Holt's has to eat some crow on this one.