Easily the biggest mistake I made at the beginning. My first online order was with them and immediately regretted it. It was a 12 cigar sampler with 6 different blends (2 of each). Of course, the most desirable cigar was "out of stock" and they replaced it with the least valuable cigar that was already in the sampler. Then the follow up calls began where they try to trick you into their club membership thing. Literally had to get belligerent with the lady to make her give up and leave me alone. Then I found this place
Mine was thinking that ratings mattered and indicated if a cigar was good or not... Oh and inhaling cigars though I did that for months anyways since I liked it that way regardless.
I have never made a noob mistake. Cough cough. Oh lord where do I begin... No humi and leaving the cigar in my garage for a month before I smoked it. Inadvertent inhaling and losing my lungs. Starting with the 40ct sampler humi that was too small in about a month. Vic lighters tasting the foot, huh? I could go on and on.
Probably half smoking cigars and saving them for later with my other unlit cigars -.- or inhaling an LFD chisel before i knew how to properly smoke a cigar. It knocked me down for the count for the rest of the night.
Bob Luken:
New Boots:
COW and Ay-vo -- right? wrong? don't care, lol
Don't care?! Call the sherriff! That's a noob violation right there! Your concern in these important matters is mandatory.
There should be disciplinary actions taken for not caring
Thinking Cigar Afffffffffishanados ratings were worth the trouble to hunt down a particular cigar. Then buying because I liked the band, even if half the time that worked. Thirty years later and my second go around I find samplers, bombs and 1 each please custom orders from KD at CCom works better then anything else.
1st humi was way too small, second turned out to be too small too.
That has got to be the most common one. I guess its hard to imagine going from "Let me try them out" to "I need to have them all." My cabinet humidor arrives in 10 days. I have 2 200ct humis, 3 50ct, a 25ct, a tupperdor, and a 150qt coolidor.
This thread is great. Mine, ordering ~100 cigars at the same time as the humidor...had no idea we needed a while to season it. Also, first humi 100ct (his)...two weeks later second 100ct (hers)....a few weeks after that, third 100ct humi (um, overflow)...today fourth humi (50ct aging)...add in some new tupperware, a free desktop 25ct (coffee infused)...researching coolidors now as I have 2 boxes of Camachos coming today.
Man, I wish my husband would offer to build me a walk-in humi The problem is, every time I get a new humidor, I just buy more cigars!! We need a support group area in this forum.
One more... Don't let anyone rush you through a strong cigar. Wife talked me into taking her to the mall when I was smoking a tat fausto. I rushed it and finished while driving. I had to take a seat on clothing display in the store, lol!
My biggest screw up was buying bundles of cheap cigars and thinking i was getting a "deal"
This! Buying tons of different smokes at auction thinking I was getting tremendous deals only to then start realizing the difference in quality vs. quatity.
Had one problem with a bic, more my fault than the lighter, used one to try to toast strait ligero and let it get hot enough to melt the top it didn't explode or anything just shot the cap. wheel and spring out the gas had enough pressure to put out the flame.
Had one problem with a bic, more my fault than the lighter, used one to try to toast strait ligero and let it get hot enough to melt the top it didn't explode or anything just shot the cap. wheel and spring out the gas had enough pressure to put out the flame.
I had done this in my previous stint as a cigar smoker. This time around, I knew I would need something better.
In all seriousness, my noob mistakes was giving a sh!t what other people think. I learned to smoke what I like no matter what the band or anyone says. It's MY hobby............
LOL, great thread. Mine would have to be when I was moving and left my FULL 100ct humi in the car for 2 days. It had to be 130 degrees in there! I thought the world was ending, here I had amassed this HUGE collection of 50+ cigars and now they were all gone! Fortunately, I had no beetles and the guidance of Brett, Dan, and Brian calmed me down. After a couple weeks, humi was stable again and all was right again! Thanks again to my RNM brethren!
LOL, great thread. Mine would have to be when I was moving and left my FULL 100ct humi in the car for 2 days. It had to be 130 degrees in there! I thought the world was ending, here I had amassed this HUGE collection of 50+ cigars and now they were all gone! Fortunately, I had no beetles and the guidance of Brett, Dan, and Brian calmed me down. After a couple weeks, humi was stable again and all was right again! Thanks again to my RNM brethren!
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