Do you really know cigar moochers?

[WNYTONY]

I don't know any moochers, no. In person, especially, anyone I'm smoking with has access to my entire humidor - if I disliked you so much that I'd want to give you some of the junk CI passes off as budget cigars, I wouldn't be smoking with you in the first place.

To the larger topic at hand: it's CI's chosen sales tactic. I have my own way of marketing cigars, just as every other retailer does. I think it would be fun though, just once, to take their route. Maybe, just maybe:

"Hey, buddy... YOU, yeah, you! You're pretty smart. You're good looking, you have great taste, women everywhere are falling over themselves to kneel before you. We know you like cigars. We also know that you're soooooo insanely popular that there are literally thousands of lesser beta-males trying to hang out with you, and you're so damn generous that you give each and every one of them a cigar even though they're dirt and they don't deserve a sniff of your superior tobacco. What else do we know about you? You can spot an awesome value at a mile away because YOU'RE awesome! Yeah, that's right: YOU ARE AWESOME! So we have this great package all ready to go for you. It's filled with a bunch of crap you can give to the masses, and they'll be thankful for every inch - of which you have many, no doubt - and that in turn will make you thankful because the primo shelf in your humidor has gone untouched. That's the name of the game, buckaroo. You stock your humidor with handmade treasures and still appease the peasants with a cigar, even though it's total dogshit. They won't know... Anything coming from you is gold, buddy. GOLD!"

This is exactly why I buy so much from Andy and Nice Ash ! He just gets me .......LOL

I may be the only one but I get this sometimes. I would not say moochers per say but I run into this a lot at the golf course. Either playing in a tournament with a lot of people I don't know or sometimes at my home course it can get a bit overwhelming for someone like me on an insane tight budget. If someone was coming to my house and had access to my humidor or even friends I know, then it's pretty much full access as it doesn't happen hardly at all. But at golf tournaments, scrambles, and on the patio of the golf course I could burn through a serious amount of sticks if all I carried was extreme good stuff. Basically it boils down to budget for me, if I could afford to supply a lot of guys higher end sticks even if they were moochers I absolutely would but I cant.

The thing I have to remember as I often feel bad giving someone something that I feel is a yard-gar, is that in this stage of my humidor my yard-gars are most people's high end cigar if they dont smoke that much.

I get a little of that at the golf course too. Then you hand them a stick and they smoke it for a few puffs and toss it or forget it somewhere on the course.
I just let them know I grabbed some and this isn't the best stick in the word but it's not bad............ because they may truly like it even though I may not have.
But then again I don't purposely buy low end bundles to give away. I will however grab stuff I wasn't wild about or that is in the yard gar category if I think I'm going to be handing them out.
I generally don't take top end sticks to the course anyway - to tough to really enjoy when you're hacking it around and searching the hazards for balls !