Re: Cuban (?) box code

Winston Castro wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:49:32 GMT, Hutch <champboat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:40:17 -0400, Ken Dixon <nsvmiami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


If so, the likelihood of their being fakes is quite high.....pretty
much a certainty. IIANM, 1998 was prior to the use of the newer
warrantee seals, with the serial #'s. Sorry :(
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Thanks I had a feeling they were too mild. Good yard stick though.
Good attitude ! I had some "fake" Cuban HUpmann's (coincidently from
Miami) quite a while ago that were some VERY good cigars. Not Cuban
tobacco, and not what I expected when purchased, but I enjoyed every
one I smoked, even after learning that they were not Cuban.


I'm surprised you guys are not more angry about this kind of thing.

Was it a particlar vendor? So that the rest of us won't make that same
mistake.

I guess if they did turn out as fakes and were still pretty good
smokes, that would be some kind of small silver lining in a cloud.

Still, it has never happened to me before, and I'd probably be pretty
pissed off, even if they were decent smokes.

Counterfeiting Cuban cigars is something of a cottage industry in Miami, in particular Hialeah, and some of the producers are very good down to the last detail and producing some pretty decent cigars in back rooms.

I've been burned twice in fifteen years and both times I went out of normal channels. The first time I got burned, unintentionally, by a friend who had family traveling to Cuba. He apologized profusely and made good. The second was a tobacco shop in Venezuela that I've long forgotten the name of. I took both burns as lessons. *** happens.
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