CI "Fake" Cigars?

**wabashcr** · 03-03-2015, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by DogRockets

Wow the video has been pulled - wonder what made him pull it down? Enough people telling him he's full of crap or CI's legal department laying some smack down.

My guess is the former. If I posted a video dissecting a cigar I got from CI and they tried to tell me to take it down, I'd tell them to piss up a rope. I think it's becoming evident that some of these people cutting open these cigars don't know what they're doing. I saw the video before it was taken down. It didn't look good, but it was mostly long filler. A lot of the smaller pieces looked like long filler broken up either during rolling or cutting it open.

**Skeat5353** · 03-05-2015, 11:26 PM

The story is all over other forums too. CI's legal department has threatened to sue Brian at Cigar Obsession, thus he was forced to remove the videos. It makes a lot of sense, though. How cigar smokers can really distinguish the difference between long and short filler in a cheap cigar, that's what they're banking on. I cut open an Excalibur and a Sosa months ago, just to see what type of tobacco they were using. Honestly, it looked like leaves you might find on a sidewalk in autumn. Hard brittle stems, choppy scraps of crap. Awful shit, really. Looks like they took a page of Habanos counterfeiters!!! LOL!

**jp1979** · 03-05-2015, 11:30 PM

i bet it was the title that got the attention of the legal department. i had a feeling they might not like that... pretty funny really.

**Marc L** · 03-06-2015, 12:41 AM

Maybe some more consideration for facts expressed could get had?

**Skeat5353** · 03-06-2015, 02:18 AM

This is the same Bryan Glynn who reviewed a fake Monte 2 and didn't realize it until a viewer sent in an email saying the band looked fake and the wrapper looked terrible. Maybe he's trying to get even. He also discovered a bunch of hard stems in Padron filler too. I like the fact that he opens up the cigars. Someone has to protect us, right?

**garublador** · 03-06-2015, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by HIM

My Big Mac doesn't look like the one in the commercials does either, is this really a surprise?

I couldn't not post this. It's from The Onion, so there's NSFW words on the site, but the story itself is fine.

GREENVILLE, SC—Expressing his disappointment shortly after sitting down for lunch at a local franchise location Wednesday, area man Peter Strauss told reporters that the customers at Burger King were actually far less appealing in real life than they were depicted in the fast food chain’s commercials. “The Burger King customers looked so good on TV, but when I got here they turned out to be kind of gross,” said Strauss, emphasizing that the sloppy, greasy customers at his local Burger King were considerably less photogenic and enticing than the patrons prominently featured in company advertisements. “They actually look pretty messy and sort of disgusting in person, and you can tell they’ve just been sitting out here all day. I guess there’s a reason they don’t show you these ones in the ads. Ugh.” Strauss added that he tends to stay away from fast food customers in the first place, as he can tell that they’re not very healthy.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fas...commerc,38142/

**Demuths1770** · 03-06-2015, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Skeat5353

This is the same Bryan Glynn who reviewed a fake Monte 2 and didn't realize it until a viewer sent in an email saying the band looked fake and the wrapper looked terrible. Maybe he's trying to get even. He also discovered a bunch of hard stems in Padron filler too. I like the fact that he opens up the cigars. Someone has to protect us, right?

padron also got back to him after doing that and stated that is normal. these are natural products being rolled by people. natural defects and human error are to be expected at some point. the fact that he is claiming these to be fake and the nature of him doing so is wrong which is probably why they got on him. also the same Bryan Glynn that said its ok to take Heartfelt beads and soak them in tap water lol

**wabashcr** · 03-06-2015, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by jp1979

i bet it was the title that got the attention of the legal department. i had a feeling they might not like that... pretty funny really.

I agree, saying they are fake was pretty silly. Big difference between fake and just shitty. He obviously has his own interests he wants to protect, and probably decided a pissing match with CI wasn't good for that. Regardless of how we feel about him, he has a good thing going. No reason to rock the boat. Probably should have thought about that before dropping those videos.

**BMack** · 03-06-2015, 11:38 AM

It's pretty weird to watch this from the outside on multiple forums, with no biased/opinion of what's going on...seems like each forum has their own side and are defending it like their religion.