Man, it's Gotta be Cheap . . . .

[gord]

Colt's Cavendish tipped ($24.75 for 8), Colt' regular Wine Dipped ($24.75 for 8), or Phillies Blunt Chocolate or Cognac ($27.95 for 5).

I'm a pensioner and basically smoke pipes. I prefer cigars when I'm fishing or in the mood in the afternoon. I find cigars more "action" oriented and pipes more contemplative, but that's me. So it's price and that's it. But I love my occasional cigar as you can see from my current avatar.

The cheapest real cigar in Prince George BC's only tobacconist is a $12 dollar Guatanamera Cristales, which I might buy to bring in Advent, Christmas or other such event. But that's my repertoire.

The Phillies Blunt are actually not bad, but I figure I'd get lots of flack for saying that so I'll cease and desist now.

Cheers.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Males me glad that I finished my cellar when most tobacco was still under $5/ounce.

 

[Sig]

Heck, the most EXPENSIVE cigar in our local shop is $27. Of course we don't have Cubans here.
Its an Opus X Shark.....never had one.
The average for premium cigars is $4-10......Montecristo, HUpmann, Ry&J, Rocky Patel......
They are much more expensive normally here but I get them on the Seneca reservation. They do not have the 75% NYS tobacco tax.
I do not smoke cigarettes but packs start at $3 and cartons at $22.
Off the reservarion they are minimum $10 a paxk and $100 a carton.....for generics.
Pipe tins on the Res are between $6-$12, but their selection is usually pretty bad.

 

[AJL67]

I realize you're in canada but im assuming there have to be some places that sell factory seconds, you can grab bundles of them for pretty cheap, not sure how it would be shipping them up there and how much they would charge you duties and fees. I mean they have to beat the hell out of "blunts"

https://www.neptunecigar.com/cigar/factory-throwouts

 

[BronzeAgePiper]

I realize you're in canada but im assuming there have to be some places that sell factory seconds, you can grab bundles of them for pretty cheap, not sure how it would be shipping them up there and how much they would charge you duties and fees. I mean they have to beat the hell out of "blunts"

https://www.neptunecigar.com/cigar/factory-throwouts

Yea I was gonna rec these too, I’d try the 59 sweets If I were you, might be exactly what your looking for.

 

[gord]

Heck, the most EXPENSIVE cigar in our local shop is $27. Of course we don't have Cubans here.
Its an Opus X Shark.....never had one.
The average for premium cigars is $4-10......Montecristo, HUpmann, Ry&J, Rocky Patel......
They are much more expensive normally here but I get them on the Seneca reservation. They do not have the 75% NYS tobacco tax.
I do not smoke cigarettes but packs start at $3 and cartons at $22.
Off the reservarion they are minimum $10 a paxk and $100 a carton.....for generics.
Pipe tins on the Res are between $6-$12, but their selection is usually pretty bad.

 

[gord]

Males me glad that I finished my cellar when most tobacco was still under $5/ounce.

Heck, the most EXPENSIVE cigar in our local shop is $27. Of course we don't have Cubans here.
Its an Opus X Shark.....never had one.
The average for premium cigars is $4-10......Montecristo, HUpmann, Ry&J, Rocky Patel......
They are much more expensive normally here but I get them on the Seneca reservation. They do not have the 75% NYS tobacco tax.
I do not smoke cigarettes but packs start at $3 and cartons at $22.
Off the reservarion they are minimum $10 a paxk and $100 a carton.....for generics.
Pipe tins on the Res are between $6-$12, but their selection is usually pretty bad.

A pack of cigarettes in BC is 26 bucks tax in, a two ounce pack of tobacco, say Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish, is 88 bucks tax in, cigars . . . out of sight. We in BC have the highest tobacco prices in Canada, and each province has it's own regulations . . . and there is NO INTERPROVINCIAL SHIPPING OF TOBACCO. Insanity. The rest is taxation. Hell (literally!) - even God only charges 10%

 

[Chasing Embers]

A pack of cigarettes in BC is 26 bucks tax

In Central Kentucky a pack averages around $6.50 but I can make three cartons for around $35.00

say Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish, is 88 bucks tax

Around $9.00 here.

 

[irishearl]

Haven't bought cigars for some years. When I did, would get them from JR Cigars-they Still around? Would buy JR alternatives and get a 20 cigar bundle for $40. Pretty good cigars.

 

[pantsBoots]

I realize you're in canada but im assuming there have to be some places that sell factory seconds, you can grab bundles of them for pretty cheap, not sure how it would be shipping them up there and how much they would charge you duties and fees. I mean they have to beat the hell out of "blunts"

https://www.neptunecigar.com/cigar/factory-throwouts

Flor de Ybor City has been a favorite of mine in this cheapo category. Quorum way back when, too. Not sure if either are available in Canada.

 

[woodsroad]

Colt's Cavendish tipped ($24.75 for 8), Colt' regular Wine Dipped ($24.75 for 8), or Phillies Blunt Chocolate or Cognac ($27.95 for 5).

I'm a pensioner and basically smoke pipes. I prefer cigars when I'm fishing or in the mood in the afternoon. I find cigars more "action" oriented and pipes more contemplative, but that's me. So it's price and that's it. But I love my occasional cigar as you can see from my current avatar.

The cheapest real cigar in Prince George BC's only tobacconist is a $12 dollar Guatanamera Cristales, which I might buy to bring in Advent, Christmas or other such event. But that's my repertoire.

The Phillies Blunt are actually not bad, but I figure I'd get lots of flack for saying that so I'll cease and desist now.

Cheers.

Phillies were once actually made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the Bayuk Cigar Co. The factory was near the Temple University campus, immediately adjacent to the Temple train station. As a kid, on my many trips into the city from the suburbs, I would pass the factory and wonder about the immense numbers of cigars produced there, and where they all went. It was a big building.

The exterior of the abandoned Bayuk Cigar factory at 9th & Columbia Avenue (Cecil B. Moore Avenue). May 21st, 1980. Photo Credit: Temple University Archives.​

 

[AJL67]

Flor de Ybor City has been a favorite of mine in this cheapo category. Quorum way back when, too. Not sure if either are available in Canada.

They do ship to Canada but you're still going to pay whatever fees that Castro Jr slaps on you.

 

[gord]

Phillies were once actually made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the Bayuk Cigar Co. The factory was near the Temple University campus, immediately adjacent to the Temple train station. As a kid, on my many trips into the city from the suburbs, I would pass the factory and wonder about the immense numbers of cigars produced there, and where they all went. It was a big building.

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The exterior of the abandoned Bayuk Cigar factory at 9th & Columbia Avenue (Cecil B. Moore Avenue). May 21st, 1980. Photo Credit: Temple University Archives.​

 

[gord]

Thanks for this great attachment, and the history. Looking at a package now with three Cognacs left in it, they are made in the USA, seems by ITC Cigars Inc. in Ft Lauderdale, Fl.

The Cognacs and Chocolates are very good to my bohemian tastes, and I just bought a pack of Berry flavour that is very nice indeed. I will not feel depriived by my twice or thrice a week foray into Blunt or Colt land. :D They work for me.

 

[gord]

They do ship to Canada but you're still going to pay whatever fees that Castro Jr slaps on you.

Thought that Fiddle Around Maggie was a well kept secret amongst Canucks hahahahah.
Guess not.

 

[AJL67]

Thought that Fiddle Around Maggie was a well kept secret amongst Canucks hahahahah.
Guess not.

Yah pretty sure most people see it.

 

[tbradsim1]

Drew Factory Smokes!

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Yah pretty sure most people see it. View attachment 310545

That's crazy!

 

[AJL67]

That's crazy!

You didn't know that? I think it really caught fire a couple years ago and it's well documented that his mother was in Cuba at just the right time to bang a dictator, the dates line up and everything and yes there is literally no denying it.

 

[pantsBoots]

They do ship to Canada but you're still going to pay whatever fees that Castro Jr slaps on you.

Only if they find it!