I have been purchasing cuban cigars from a presumably reputable dealer recommended by one of the people on this forum. They have been very tasty cigars, but the cuban seal on the outside of the box is broken before I open the box. It has been obviously opened by somebody before me. Are they fake or is there another reason the seal is broken? For what it's worth, they ship from Hong Kong.

Almost any reputable dealer will open their boxes before they send them to you. The importer may do this as well. To be honest I have never received a box of Cuban cigars with an intact seal. Never.

To quote the great Groucho Marx when he was asked by his wife to quit smoking cigars at home: "No,but we can remain good friends."

c-dog,

I'm new to all this CC stuff and haven't nailed down a source yet, but I think if you say they smoke fine, and tast fine you should be OK, I've heard that some vendors open boxes to inspect the gars before they ship.

Oh, boliman

Calm down. I always open every box to check the quality. Except the client WANT a unopened sealed box...

Like CoolBurn told you: if it is a good source, you don't have to fear anything.

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Originally posted by boliman:
. Of course, you must check your cedar divider, too. Might have a straight cut, or a notch cut, meaning they could be fake.

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Does the half moon cut still apply to the cedar divider? I find alot of boxes from 04 have straight cuts.

Thanks in advance

Anomalies with bands, boxes, straight vs. half moon cut...

Know your vendor and these questions should not even come to mind.

GreenDay, less than half of the time nowadays.

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Boliman,
if you are ever in New York City I hope you will call on me as I'd love to meet you. I have never met anyone quite like you. You seem like one of a kind.

To quote the great Groucho Marx when he was asked by his wife to quit smoking cigars at home: "No,but we can remain good friends."

dhoffman is exactly right.

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I concur with (most of) the previous statements on this thread.

The seals are almost always cut on my Cuban cigar boxes. Over the years, I have purchased several boxes from J&R Duty Free at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv (which has pretty good prices) and all of their boxes are cut to ensure the smokes are of adequate quality. And they are most certainly real.

Last month, I did buy some boxes from the Melia Cohiba Hotel in Havana and just grabbed a bunch of boxes with the seals uncut -- which was in retrospect a risk. I could have ended up with unripened cigars or cigars whose colour I did not care for. However, I suspect that the Hotel only gets the best because when I opened the boxes up on my return, they were all of the deepest chocolate colour.

So no worries. You want the seals broken to ensure that someone in the long chain from the factory in Havana to your home has inspected these cigars and deemed them suitable for sale.

SS

it's even funnier to see the extent to which you amuse and pleasure yourself. please save us the agony.

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Fark???

I may have to report you.
You were obviously using foul language which is not allowed. Please be as so kind as to delete your post, or Administration may have to do it for you.

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FARK is of old english derivation and simply means (according to Mcleans dictionary):

unwelcome rhetoric of an inflammatory or unproductive nature.

Therefore Fark off is simply asking someone to not use rhetoric of an inlammatory or unproductive nature.

Oh, BTW punjab you used the exact same language in your post and if they get moderated you and I are in the same boat with him.

Two or three wrongs don't make a right. That is, if you still contend it was wrong.

@Boliman

Try some Trinidad Robusto Extra, than talk again
Cuba still HAS the best tabacco of the world, and the cigar quality is going up constantly.
I think they have learned out of the misery in the last few years; only cubans need a bit longer to do so

"boliman"

Thanks for not answering my question, you must be a legend in your own mind.

Thanks to the other posters who did answer.

Here's the problem I have with the original post...the guy was generously and graciously given a source. Then in a public forum he questions the authenticity of said source. That is tantamount to a slap in the face. If I were the guy who was generous enough to give this ungrateful individual a source I'd be pretty freaking ticked. Especially since the source is being questioned over something so ridiculous as broken seals. It's the equivalent of a panhandler being given a dollar and then asking the person who gave it to them if it's counterfeit. It really is funny that this kind of stuff only happens here.

Let me be the first to say - Getz Nada. But, in retrospect, if there already is Nada here then all one will get is Nada, anyway. How 'bout Getz MORE Nada.

"Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing every year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared."

[This message was edited by the_mantis on August 17, 2004 at 03:58 PM.]

Then we shall all

We shall all

We shall all

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And in regards to the original post here, the Mantis is dead on with both points he made.

Wow
Nice post


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