Uncle Moneybag$ Halloween Horror
Posted by Uncle Moneybag$ on 29 Oct 2006 at 01:50 am | Tagged as: Weekly Specials
I agree with Brother Dicksbain on this one: JR really let us down this year. While I did not get quite as bad a group of sticks as he did, my stack was far more mediocre than last year’s bundles. I ordered two of these deals. They were mirror images of each other - almost no variety. I suspect most people got what I got, which included:
JR “Ultimate” Toros (maduro and natural)
La Especial Robustos
One La Gloria Cubana
A few Flor De Allones
La Primadora Toro
Berring Tubo
Flor de Copan Maduro Rothchild
Quality on these mediocre cigars was far below average, even for JR. And the filler crap, a Montecristo Windbreaker fit for a 10-year-old and a La Gloria Cubana hat (yawn), was useless. I wish I had purchased one of the Halloween specials over at cigar.com. Now THAT is an amazing deal:
5 Gurhka TITANS (amazing value in their own right–the box of 16 sells for $400.00);
5 Cinco Vegas Maduros (one of the best maduros I’ve ever had)
5 C10 Aniversario Cusano Robustos (great smoke)
5 Cigar.com Maduras (ok ,so these are the filler gars)
1 Humidor jar with humidification unit.
All for $79.95 + 5.95 shipping.
That said, you have to keep in mind the JR deal only costs $40.00, so it’s not a horrible deal. I just didn’t get anything that great this time around. There should have been at least one “great” or two “very good” gars (by way of contrast, last year I got 4 TTT trinidads, a Macaudo, and a Montecristo platnium in EACH of my deals–and the average gar was a Romeo y Julieta!)
Maybe this was just a bad year. I will probably give JR another chance, but I’m getting close to giving all my business to someone else. Famous-smoke is far better as to everyday prices, and cigar.com is this year’s “master of the deals.” If anyone from JR cigar is reading this, I ask you: what happened?
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