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Once you develop some relationships there are plenty of guys who will share sources. If you come here and you post looking for sources in your first month or 2 then most will be wary of you.

Hey guys, glad to be back, thanks for the welcome.

If you have a legit source then you never have to worry about discrepancies with packaging. or how the cigars look. Cuban quality control sucks so there will always be weird looking boxes, labels and the like. Now if you do not trust your source then all bets are off and you do have to worry...

Guys, try and remember that Cuba has the worst quality control of any country making cigars. I have been in the Cohiba factory and the Partagas factory and let me tell you, they could care less about their cigars. If the vendor is legit and has a great rep then do not worry about things like...

Here is a rule of thumb I always went by, thinner, smaller and wrapper to filler ratio's. If the cigar is thinner and has a larger wrapper to filler ratio the cigar will not need as much time to taste good. Cigars that have a large percentage of filler need a lot of time for the tobacco to...

It was 1998, me and a buddy put in a 12 box order from Switzerland from a guy we had been doing business with for over a year. Customs snspped the entire order and we never saw the cigars again, that sucked.

You couldn't pay me to drink that shit. Just goes to show how stupid some people are.

The guy who doesn't take 98% of asking price is a total moron. The realtor who didn't make him take it is obviously not a good one. If I were the realtor, I would have told the seller that he either takes your offer or he finds another realtor. I bet this guy ends up taking 75 grand less on...

Back around 1996 I had an empty store in my strip mall. I contacted Tinderbox to see how much a franchise would cost. The franchise fee back then was 25 grand. They made you buy about 250k worth of inventory and they took 5 percent off your gross sales. I ended up renting the space to someone so...

There are many smokes in Tubes that are not cheap. Upmann Monarchs RyJ Churchills Punch Monarcas Cohiba Siglo II, VI Monte Tubos These are just some tubos that are far from cheap. The RyJ #2 A/T is a fantastic inexpensive tubo which is hand rolled. The nice thing about these is that...

I have been to Aruba 4 times and my favorite restaurant is http://www.elgaucho-aruba.com/. Be very careful about how much sun you get. Aruba is very close to the equator and the sun is incredibly strong. You can burn the shit out of yourself in 1 hour. Make sure if you are lying at the beach...

In my experience Hepa units are usually quite effective. http://pollutionresearch.com/

Seavita, it doesn't surprise me about your RASS experiences. They are really bad when they are not aged properly.

You definitely want to keep your cigars at 70 degrees or less and 60-65 percent humidity. I keep all my tubed cigars in their tubes with the cap on. If you cannot keep where you live at 70 degrees or less, then you will need a storage system that does this. The cheapest cooling system will be a...

I agree that getting into the high 60's might be a problem if the apartment is at 90. If he cannot get into the high 60's then he needs to put the ac on in the apt. and get it into the mid 80's or what ever it takes to get the humi into the high 60's.