Daymn Pete, that's a great load of cigars! So if I remember correctly, the ones you bought were from El Credito rolled at the factory on Calle Ocho street?......Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
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Daymn Pete, that's a great load of cigars! So if I remember correctly, the ones you bought were from El Credito rolled at the factory on Calle Ocho street?......Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Errrrrr.....ahhhhh.....ummmmm....errrr....hey @WNYTONY ......ahhhhh.....Errrrrr......ummmmm.....how do all those cigars taste?.....Are they good ones?........😁Quote:
Originally Posted by dinoa2
Haven't had a Pita in a spell. Good old toro sized cigar. Was it the Maddy or natural?.....Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Hi David,Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
Yes. Holts actually had separate listings for Miami and DR sticks and at the same price but I bought the 37 boxes from a local tobacconist, all Miami made. It was his entire La Gloria order that he'd just received. I bought Miami made from Holt's after I'd smoked through the 37 boxes (~9 months) for the better part of a year until they were no longer offered.
This falls under the wealth of riches is wasted on a numbskull. I still like La Gloria very much but preferred the Miami and I smoked them without a thought for posterity. The Boom hit and La Gloria prices went up faster than a lizards body temperature in the desert sun.
Natural. I had negative dealings/feelings with Danby-Palicio (when Dan Blumenthal ran the company) because they were so deeply in bed with Lew Rothman but I started smoking them after I left the business and I like both Hoyo and Punch. Tastes like this Pita is a new blend from some I had perhaps a year ago, bolder and bigger flavour. Certainly the blend has changed over time as (from their literature) they had no Nicaraguan leaf in the day. Positive change.Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
Yessir, I jumped in around 1995-97 and they all pretty much seemed higher than giraffe lovin'. I did go through some crap cigars back then, as everybody and their brother were rolling cigars. Just get them on the shelf and somebody will buy them! I'm just happy that it seems that most care about quality over quantity these days....Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
I think JR/Lew had his fingers in everybody's business back in the day. I still remember the mailers I would get every few weeks. I still enjoy a Punch, Hoyo and El Rey del Mundo cigar every now and then....Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Ashton Cabinet No. 8
Finishing it now. Two thumbs up! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3de40ad926.jpg
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I was a retailer and he was selling for less than I could buy. Speaking to Danby (Blumenthal) was like an audience with the Pope and he was dismissive so we stopped selling their cigars except to regular customers. Always amazed me when their missionaries would act and say that Rothman was paying the same price as I was. The business completely changed with the Boom and the Internet. I don't hold grudges :).Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
It was a time of change for almost everybody in every line of business. Then when we got things together, along came Y2K. We didn't know if we would be affected, so we tried to cover our azz in every way possible. I was helping my mom and brother with their gift marketing business in the World Trade Center in Dallas. We just put in a new fancy bar code scanning system and was praying it would hold up. It did. A lot of people got rich off the Y2K scare, that's for sure!....Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend