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Smokestack Jack · 02-06-2019, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Briandg

How much for the cap?

I think you mean "how much for that crap?"

Mad Dawg · 02-07-2019, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigO

Bolivar made a cigar--many years ago--called the Gold Medal. It came partially wrapped in gold foil. They did a reissue about 20 years ago and I was fortunate to have smoked one. Sancho gifted it to me at a herf.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I may have a few boxes of that second release laid down and aging quietly...

BigO · 02-07-2019, 12:27 PM

If you find one in your humi, smoke it and let me know if age has helped it.

grtrx · 02-18-2019, 07:46 AM

in the end the free market will handle the pricing - either they sell a 1000 dollar glass of lemonade or they sell a lot of dollar glasses of lemonade or they go out of business or they explain to the board/owners why they had a bad year

Briandg · 02-18-2019, 01:18 PM

The beautiful thing about offering up $1,000 cigars is that for every one they sell they will earn a $990 profit, and every one they don't sell they can scrape clean and reband, then sell as a bundle, banded "dumpster diver's dream" and still make a buck or two on them.

I am not sure how they will work that into a loss that can be put on the taxes and balance sheet, but if there is a way, it can be done.

They could always figure out how to write it off as depreciation of value of inventory, maybe, considering it as depreciating 10% annually and taking it off of net profits that way.

If you look at hansotia and gurkha, the one thing that is certain is that he is still a big damned player in the cigar business and a wealthy man. Selling ten thousand dollar cigars to sheiks once in a while gets him notoriety and gathers scorn from many others, but it keeps him in the public eye.

The other day I bought a gurkha knife from JR. The thing was ten bucks, after seeing them ten or more years, I finally had to try one.

Oh, gee, I used it to trim a root on a bush. It wouldn't cut, and actually folded and collapsed the edge. It took me well over an hour to profile the edge a little better, and cut out the nick. I was afraid to strop it.

I gave it to my son in law last night.

grtrx · 02-20-2019, 06:44 AM

so, in conclusion, marketing is a scam for many cigars, and many cigars are overpriced, and 1000 dollar glasses of lemonade abound, but you don't have to bite or buy or drink.

Smoke what you like, like what you smoke.

beevod · 02-20-2019, 08:09 AM

But, the thousand dollar glass of lemonade, as well as the cigar, have been clinically shown to lessen your bank account.

Briandg · 02-20-2019, 10:34 AM

Not everyone can be penny wise. Nor should they want to be, I guess.

grtrx · 02-20-2019, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Briandg

Not everyone can be penny wise. Nor should they want to be, I guess.

well said P T

grtrx · 02-20-2019, 11:37 AM

Someone will buy the $1000 cigar company and vow to improve sales, then they will announce they need to improve inventory turns based on a report from a consultant... hilarity will ensue

02-07-2019, 12:27 PM	#13
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,784	If you find one in your humi, smoke it and let me know if age has helped it. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

02-18-2019, 07:46 AM	#14
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	in the end the free market will handle the pricing - either they sell a 1000 dollar glass of lemonade or they sell a lot of dollar glasses of lemonade or they go out of business or they explain to the board/owners why they had a bad year __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

02-20-2019, 06:44 AM	#16
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	so, in conclusion, marketing is a scam for many cigars, and many cigars are overpriced, and 1000 dollar glasses of lemonade abound, but you don't have to bite or buy or drink. Smoke what you like, like what you smoke. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

02-20-2019, 08:09 AM	#17
beevod Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 20,927	But, the thousand dollar glass of lemonade, as well as the cigar, have been clinically shown to lessen your bank account. __________________ "Moderation in all things. Excess in everything else."

02-20-2019, 11:37 AM	#20
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	Someone will buy the $1000 cigar company and vow to improve sales, then they will announce they need to improve inventory turns based on a report from a consultant... hilarity will ensue __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

02-18-2019, 01:18 PM	#15
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	The beautiful thing about offering up $1,000 cigars is that for every one they sell they will earn a $990 profit, and every one they don't sell they can scrape clean and reband, then sell as a bundle, banded "dumpster diver's dream" and still make a buck or two on them. I am not sure how they will work that into a loss that can be put on the taxes and balance sheet, but if there is a way, it can be done. They could always figure out how to write it off as depreciation of value of inventory, maybe, considering it as depreciating 10% annually and taking it off of net profits that way. If you look at hansotia and gurkha, the one thing that is certain is that he is still a big damned player in the cigar business and a wealthy man. Selling ten thousand dollar cigars to sheiks once in a while gets him notoriety and gathers scorn from many others, but it keeps him in the public eye. The other day I bought a gurkha knife from JR. The thing was ten bucks, after seeing them ten or more years, I finally had to try one. Oh, gee, I used it to trim a root on a bush. It wouldn't cut, and actually folded and collapsed the edge. It took me well over an hour to profile the edge a little better, and cut out the nick. I was afraid to strop it. I gave it to my son in law last night.

02-20-2019, 10:34 AM	#18
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Not everyone can be penny wise. Nor should they want to be, I guess.

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