Monte Cristo Social Club

[TCBSmokes]

@dinoa2 , thanks for starting this thread as I also wanted to share my experience with the members here.

I just received mine on Saturday and must admit, as I opened the package with a bit of glee (I am now a card-carrying member of their esteemed club, after all!) in the kitchen in front of my wife, I suddenly felt I was caught somewhere between the Leg Lamp and Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring scenes, (both from A Christmas Story, in case you didn't know).

But with that aside, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the key is mostly if not all metal and quite heavy, too. How the punch works is you twist the key and out it comes to do its job. Cooler thing is when I was finished and twisted it back in place it also kicked out the plug of tobacco I had just clipped off the cigar and had until then been still lodged inside. Nice feature, I thought.

Now, as nice as it is, am I going to carry it around as a key fob? It has a ring for that, after all. Certainly not. But it is a nice little desk item that works quite well and which turned out to be better than I really was expecting.

Oh yeah, and I'd say delivery time was about 6-8 weeks from when I first signed up on the site.

Here is a link to the pic of it I posted Sunday on the "what did you smoke today?" thread after having thrown a welcoming party upon its arrival. (the cigars were not included but acquired previously on cbid).


http://www.cigarbum.com/forum/attach...4&d=1427042693

[Upstatemax]

Just got mine in today!

Opened it in the kitchen having no idea what it was. My wife was there and rolled her eyes asking how much I spent on it...

This time I could proudly exclaim, NOTHING! It was free!

Naturally she could not believe that, so it moved to "okay, how much did you spend to get it for free?".

I started to laugh and told her it actually was free, spent nothing!

I think for the first time, in a long time, my wife almost moved to tears of pride...

[OtismyMan]

Just signed up, now we wait

Ditto...

[TCBSmokes]

Just got mine in today!

Opened it in the kitchen having no idea what it was. My wife was there and rolled her eyes asking how much I spent on it...

This time I could proudly exclaim, NOTHING! It was free!

Naturally she could not believe that, so it moved to "okay, how much did you spend to get it for free?".

I started to laugh and told her it actually was free, spent nothing!

I think for the first time, in a long time, my wife almost moved to tears of pride...

lol. Very good.

[Lostmason]

Mine came today,my wife opened the package because I was driving.Now if I can get it away from her,she wants to use on the Christmas tree next year.

[TCBSmokes]

Mine came today,my wife opened the package because I was driving.Now if I can get it away from her,she wants to use on the Christmas tree next year.

lol. There's a use. You'll need a strong tree.

[AuTechCoM]

Well crap. I signed up last year and waited months and all I got was a cheap and flimsy business card holder. I was so bummed out about it at first but then I remembered that I generally don't care for punches in the first place. But it was still a let down after seeing everyone with their nice Monte punches

[Rocket Scientologist]

Mine came today,my wife opened the package because I was driving.Now if I can get it away from her,she wants to use on the Christmas tree next year.

Not a bad idea. It'd make a better ornament than some of my other ones, like my Anakin Skywalker figure from Episode I...so stupid. (I was only 14 when that movie came out, so cut me some slack)

[AuTechCoM]

Not a bad idea. It'd make a better ornament than some of my other ones, like my Anakin Skywalker figure from Episode I...so stupid. (I was only 14 when that movie came out, so cut me some slack)

As long as it isn't Jar Jar Binks you are fine

[Redneck_toy]

Got my punch in the other day. Signed up around Christmas. It's nice, but awfully heavy.