Real or not

ShadowInTheMoon
ShadowInTheMoon Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 486
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Buddy of mine picked these up on his recent cruise down to Cozumel and gave them to me. Any thoughts on if they are real or not.

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  • lcpleel
    lcpleel Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,447
    not
  • danielzreyes
    danielzreyes Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 6,739
    The 2nd from the left looks real.
  • jgibv
    jgibv Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,996
    glass top lid = definitely not
  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,711
    Nope. Glass top box is a giveaway, but the labels are bad as well
  • ehehat
    ehehat Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,534
    Yeah, hope they didn't cost too much. Fakey fake
  • Echambers
    Echambers Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,335
    They are real...cigars. Are they real Cubans? Nope.

    Now PLEASE CHECK YOUR PM.
  • wwhwang
    wwhwang Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,863
    Definitely fake. No such thing as a glass-top box of real ISOM Cohibas.
  • Bigshizza
    Bigshizza Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 10,949
    Fake-- sorry but try one out anyway! Or send one to the cigar mortician (DZR)
  • AshMe
    AshMe Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 336
    So then these were fake too?....image
  • danielzreyes
    danielzreyes Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 6,739
    AshMe:
    So then these were fake too?....image
    Yes, except the 2nd from the left. Those are usually real
  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,371
    If you are on Instagram, follow THE_CIGAR_ENFORCER. He has a lot of good info on spotting fakes.
  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,711
    AshMe:
    So then these were fake too?....image


    How were they?
  • AshMe
    AshMe Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 336
    rsherman24:
    AshMe:
    So then these were fake too?....image


    How were they?
    No I didn't smoke them. I someone gave me the empty box claiming he had enjoyed some cohibas. So now I can ask him how much he enjoyed his fakes :)
  • jadelt
    jadelt Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 766
    ShadowInTheMoon:
    Buddy of mine picked these up on his recent cruise down to Cozumel and gave them to me. Any thoughts on if they are real or not.

    image
    I bought the same box on a cruise to Mexico. I figured they were fake when the original $150 offer was chewed down and reduced to $15 for the 5 sticks. Bought them, smoked them, enjoyed them, but heck I was on a cruise so my sandals would have tasted good looking out over the gulf.
  • bandyt09
    bandyt09 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,762
    If you guys saw some of the stuff that went into these "cigars" you would NEVER want to smoke one. I have seen regular hair, pubic hair, rat (could have been any kind of rodent actually) ***, banana leaves, paper, sticks, what could have possibly been a tampon string. Sometimes there was actual tobacco in there but the grade was probably below what they make cigarettes out of.

    If they came from a glass top box, for health concerns I would never smoke one.

    My 2 cents of experience, for what's it's worth.
  • ShadowInTheMoon
    ShadowInTheMoon Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 486
    bandyt09:
    If you guys saw some of the stuff that went into these "cigars" you would NEVER want to smoke one. I have seen regular hair, pubic hair, rat (could have been any kind of rodent actually) ***, banana leaves, paper, sticks, what could have possibly been a tampon string. Sometimes there was actual tobacco in there but the grade was probably below what they make cigarettes out of.

    If they came from a glass top box, for health concerns I would never smoke one.

    My 2 cents of experience, for what's it's worth.
    I definitely wont smoke them but at least it was the thought that counts from my buddy. Thanks for the help guys
  • webmost
    webmost Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,131
    Your buddy's for real. That's what counts. Like the time a client joyously gave me a box of 20 year old White Owls he'd picked up just for me at an estate sale. You gotta love a guy for that. Give the man a cigar.

    BTW -- the wood looks like Luan -- the cypress often called Phillipine Mohogany.

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