CI "Fake" Cigars?

[Emperor Zurg]

ok did i read that right BG wants ALL OF HIS VIEWERS to email cigar manufactures and retailers asking if they make and sell real cigars???? thats rediculous. these companiesa are going to be FLOODED with pointless emails because he got a spank on the hand?? i find this move as very bad taste by him imo

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
What about us viewers who only watch occasionally to laugh at him?
Self Obsession, indeed!

[Upstatemax]

ok did i read that right BG wants ALL OF HIS VIEWERS to email cigar manufactures and retailers asking if they make and sell real cigars???? thats rediculous. these companiesa are going to be FLOODED with pointless emails because he got a spank on the hand?? i find this move as very bad taste by him imo

Yes, it looks like he did ask his viewers to contact them.

Is this a bad idea?

I don't think so. If those manufacturers and retails are flooded with emails, it will show them exactly how many people that they are marketing to, care about this issue.

BG maybe be over the top and hot headed, but at the heart of the issue he is right. If they totally re-blend a cigar like they did, pack it in the same boxes and labels as the original stuff and claim that it's simply a big savings and make zero mention of the re-blend, to short filler (or floor sweepings as described). That IMO, equates to bait and switch.

Fear of public knowledge and its subsequent backlash is a big motivator...

[HabanoMan]

The man is a condescending self-important @$$hole. Always has been and probably always will be. That is IMVHO.

[Demuths1770]

Yes, it looks like he did ask his viewers to contact them.

Is this a bad idea?

I don't think so. If those manufacturers and retails are flooded with emails, it will show them exactly how many people that they are marketing to, care about this issue.

BG maybe be over the top and hot headed, but at the heart of the issue he is right. If they totally re-blend a cigar like they did, pack it in the same boxes and labels as the original stuff and claim that it's simply a big savings and make zero mention of the re-blend, to short filler (or floor sweepings as described). That IMO, equates to bait and switch.

Fear of public knowledge and its subsequent backlash is a big motivator...

it is stated it is not a "bait and switch" rebanded cigar but instead a short filler cigar that was just not stated as a short filler but at close to 2 dollars a stick that should go unspoken that it would not be a great long filler cigar, common sense.

[Upstatemax]

it is stated it is not a "bait and switch" rebanded cigar but instead a short filler cigar that was just not stated as a short filler but at close to 2 dollars a stick that should go unspoken that it would not be a great long filler cigar, common sense.

The original versions of those cigars were long filler...

IMO, it's unethical to market a cigar like it's the original thing when, clearly, it's not.

The new description does that. It's the right thing to do.

[Billb1960]

IMO some of the blame has to fall on David Blanco as well. What smart businessman would allow his name to be used on cigars that he had absolutely no control over? He'd have been better off recycling the old bands & boxes than selling them to CI and letting them put them on whatever cigar they felt like.

[Demuths1770]

is there anything that shows before it was a long filler stick?? it looks like its now an exlusive to cigars international because it seems you cant find them anywhere else

[Demuths1770]

IMO some of the blame has to fall on David Blanco as well. What smart businessman would allow his name to be used on cigars that he had absolutely no control over? He'd have been better off recycling the old bands & boxes than selling them to CI and letting them put them on whatever cigar they felt like.

the blanco website still shows THEY make them so have they changed the way the cigars are made for CI?? COs has no response from Blanco

[Billb1960]

the blanco website still shows THEY make them so have they changed the way the cigars are made for CI?? COs has no response from Blanco

Yeah apparently they haven't updated it yet which is even more confusing if you don't know the back story.

[Tman]

Brian is a twat for wanting the readers to e-mail the manufacturers. Great, now we can enjoy a $20 premium cigars that's "guaranteed" to be long filler cigars so some asshat that can't distinguish good tasting cigar from bad can say it's a good cigar.