Cheap & Delicious versus Expensive & Delicious...What Say Y'all?

[Yarddog]

This Vance (Yarddog) is really is the discussion thang that I for one most enjoy reading on Cigarbum, so sincere thanks for your post.
Clicking thanks for every entry because it's nice to read the varied takes Bums have on the subject. Gives one a chance to rethink/evaluate why you smoke what you do.
Hope see many more responses.

Thank ya...it's a little differently posed question than 'what's the best cheap ceegar'? than you see so often. I've just noticed that there are a lot of great sticks out there that taste just as good, or nearly so, than some of the vaunted sticks that are beyond my means for a general smoke...I'm glad this thread is getting a lotta traction!

The comments about high taxes also hits hard with regard to local B&M's. Here's a good example...I went into such a place at the local mall on Friday...I had just read a couple of reviews on-line about the Diamond Crown Julius Caeser, and they were in the $11-12 price range in the reviews. The cigar shop had all sorts new marketing stuff on the Diamond Crown all over...and the sticks were $20-22!

I get it that in addition to the taxes, there's the rest of the nut that goes along with that! Exorbitant rent, what have you...but what happened when I checked out kinda 'splained their business plan! I bought two sticks..an Illusione Epernay and a Camacho Triple Maduro, total of just under $27.00...I saw a Vertigo lighter which normally runs on line about ten bux, fifteen at a B&M...my card was charged $67.55, which I immediately thought was high, but I'm not in the habit of parsing the receipt at the counter...like a lot of local B&M's the receipt isn't itemized. Turns out that the lighter was dern near $34.50! Either that or the dude just decided to throw a twenty buck bone his own direction! Will I darken that place's door again? Not hardly, pilgrim! There are limits to my understanding nature!