This weeks one day deal...

laker1963

rwheelwright

ron82

madurofan

Hey lake I just popped my head over to the deal. It says 80% off of suggested MSRP misleading but probably true.

madurofan

dutyje

rwheelwright:

My guess is that they are saying MSRP is $200 and they normally knock it down. It's marketing man. Create the allusion that something is more than you can sell it for less but closer to what you would normally sell it for anyways.

One could almost build an entire brand this way... maybe give it some fancy-looking logos and bands, and a cool name loaded with mystique.. like "Gurkha" or something. The really cool part is that you can then ship sticks to B&M's and charge people close to MSRP for the cigars, and laugh all the way to the bank every time you do.

laker1963

madurofan

dutyje:

rwheelwright:

My guess is that they are saying MSRP is $200 and they normally knock it down. It's marketing man. Create the allusion that something is more than you can sell it for less but closer to what you would normally sell it for anyways.

One could almost build an entire brand this way... maybe give it some fancy-looking logos and bands, and a cool name loaded with mystique.. like "Gurkha" or something. The really cool part is that you can then ship sticks to B&M's and charge people close to MSRP for the cigars, and laugh all the way to the bank every time you do.

You know whats even more sad. Most B&Ms refuse to carry Gurkhas bc of how cheap they can be had online. I've been told by two different retailers that they can't even buy them from Gurkha at the price that they are sold for regularly online. Let alone the blowout deals that are offered by them.

dutyje

dutyje

madurofan:

dutyje:

rwheelwright:

My guess is that they are saying MSRP is $200 and they normally knock it down. It's marketing man. Create the allusion that something is more than you can sell it for less but closer to what you would normally sell it for anyways.

One could almost build an entire brand this way... maybe give it some fancy-looking logos and bands, and a cool name loaded with mystique.. like "Gurkha" or something. The really cool part is that you can then ship sticks to B&M's and charge people close to MSRP for the cigars, and laugh all the way to the bank every time you do.

You know whats even more sad. Most B&Ms refuse to carry Gurkhas bc of how cheap they can be had online. I've been told by two different retailers that they can't even buy them from Gurkha at the price that they are sold for regularly online. Let alone the blowout deals that are offered by them.

You need to stock a metric crapton of Gurkhas in order to get them that cheap. My local shop stocks loads of Gurkhas, and pushes them pretty heavily. The normal crowd at that shop has the coin to regularly drop on a box of MSRP Gurkhas and never think twice.

rwheelwright

madurofan:

dutyje:

rwheelwright:

My guess is that they are saying MSRP is $200 and they normally knock it down. It's marketing man. Create the allusion that something is more than you can sell it for less but closer to what you would normally sell it for anyways.

One could almost build an entire brand this way... maybe give it some fancy-looking logos and bands, and a cool name loaded with mystique.. like "Gurkha" or something. The really cool part is that you can then ship sticks to B&M's and charge people close to MSRP for the cigars, and laugh all the way to the bank every time you do.

You know whats even more sad. Most B&Ms refuse to carry Gurkhas bc of how cheap they can be had online. I've been told by two different retailers that they can't even buy them from Gurkha at the price that they are sold for regularly online. Let alone the blowout deals that are offered by them.

The "BIG" local B&M that is also an online competitor started carrying Gurkhas about two years ago but only the regents. They have recently started carrying others like the Gran Reserve (Non Congac versions), Marquezas, G3s and a few other ones. The other B&M that is much smaller told me that he doesn't carry Gurkha. When I asked why, he said that the Gurkha salesman came around to a bunch of local places really talking up the cigars but when it was time to place an order all the online places got them and wouldn't or couldn't sell to the local B&Ms. That is at least what happened in northern Jersey.

laker1963

laker1963

dutyje

laker1963

rwheelwright

dutyje

laker1963

laker1963

madurofan

laker1963:

It is still a good deal, just seems like it was cheapened a little because of the numbers, you know?

I agree and this is the kind of stuff that IMO always distinguished Ccom from all the other online Deal of the Century kind of places. They are classy and don't try to mislead. This was a little misleading and was very un-Ccom like.

madurofan

laker1963

madurofan

Like duty said, sorry, eh?

rwheelwright

Now, to the point I if I didn't already have a *** load already and no place to put them I would probably get the deal anyways. Also, I am overspent on my cigar budget for the month.

zoom6zoom

madurofan:

Like duty said, sorry, eh?

Is that another Canadian jab.... eh?

madurofan

zoom6zoom:

madurofan:

Like duty said, sorry, eh?

Is that another Canadian jab.... eh?

Never.

cheyman

Bad Andy

madurofan

rwheelwright