I know what you mean. Was hoping to pick some up this year but all the places with good prices on them are completely out and just the places charging $20 and up have them. Pretty disappointing too that CCom has some of the highest prices around on them.
Places online that sell certain brands, like Fuente, and reach huge volumes of buyers raise their prices because otherwise they would sell out within minutes (constantly) and never have any for sale. Specialty sticks like the Anejo Shark are best purchased at a B&M or worked out in trade for someone who has access to a B&M that carries them.
There's a huge difference though between slightly raising prices and price gouging. For a place to charge $35 for a stick that has a retail of around $10 or so is ridiculous.
There's a huge difference though between slightly raising prices and price gouging. For a place to charge $35 for a stick that has a retail of around $10 or so is ridiculous.
we'll if they landed in New York you would probably pay $35 anyways
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Just a heads up here on the comment about price. We only get a few boxes a year and usually around the holidays. because we try to stock everything for our customers and meet their requests we are forced to buy product from third party suppliers. It is literally the only way to get what we need to service our customers. Id estimate less than 5% of what we sell is actually provided to us by Fuente and during the anejo dry times pay sometimes double or even triple MSRP in some cases to obtain full boxes and have them. I assure you, Cigar.com is not price gouging and at times we even take a loss... even at our advertised pricing. Finding full boxes in off times of the year is not as easy as some folks believe. Also, like this year, when we do get a better allotment directly from Fuente or can more easily obtain more product third party, we will reach out to our customers offering better pricing whenever we have an opportunity to do so (HINT HINT make sure you get tim and andrews email next week). Hope this helps explain the situation on these. You will find most folks who charge over MSRP, it is because they have to.
Thanks for the breakdown on that. I was mainly just frustrated because the only places who do have them in stock, the Sharks specifically, are way over MSRP. Would rather give you guys the business when I do get stuff but with something like that I just can't. Between being only Part Time at work and other stuff going on it makes it tough to fork over that much for a single stick. Will definitely keep an eye out for the emails though and thanks again for the info.
Man, am I really the only person that couldn't care less about the Añejos? I´ve tried some from a couple different years, including the Sharks, and was altogether unimpressed. This is not to say that I felt they were poor cigars, but that they were a decent smoke that just wasn´t up my alley, and I certainly couldn´t (and still can´t) understand the mad hype. Is it really just because of the scarcity, or do y´all really just love them that much?
I like anejo's but don't chase them. Everyone I've turned onto Anejo's loves them. I don't care about which vitola is available because it's a great quality smoke.
I like anejo's but don't chase them. Everyone I've turned onto Anejo's loves them. I don't care about which vitola is available because it's a great quality smoke.
yup agreed I feel the same way about opus...I won't go out of my way for them but I do buy a few every time they come out and stash them away for a nap.
I like anejo's but don't chase them. Everyone I've turned onto Anejo's loves them. I don't care about which vitola is available because it's a great quality smoke.
yup agreed I feel the same way about opus...I won't go out of my way for them but I do buy a few every time they come out and stash them away for a nap.
I think the nap is key. I always smoke last year's purchase around Xmas and love them. I do care about the vitola though, this is one cigar I don't like as much in a small RG. Not sure why.
Everyone loves the shark. I don't. My favorite size is the #55. I have some sharks lying around from '09 and maybe '10. Not a lot but oneseys and twoseys. 55s I buy by the box. The other sizes don't do much for me either however the one 8-8-8 I had was pretty good right off the truck.
I really have only had the 60 and those are a 2 hour thrill ride. I can't imagine a bigger rg being worse on the 55, but to me the 60 just feels so right in the hand. My B&M has the 50 and the 55 too, so I'll have to give it a shot. No sharks though
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