Well its official! My girl friend and I are going down to BU for the weekend. I can't wait, its going to be an awesome weekend. I've got my bags packed and I'm bringing along at least 6 cigars with me to share with my buddy and his friends. I really hope they enjoy the cigars, hopefully we have some good conversations, good smokes and good....sodas. Hope all of your weekend's are awesome! I'll be sure to report back on how it all went.
-AJ
PS: This is my 20th post! woohoo!!!!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Letter to CigarBid
In response to being banned from CigarBid, I wrote them a letter explaining my position on the events taht took place. Here's a sampling of the letter that I sent to them. I am hoping I will help open their eyes, realzing taht their 21 year old and older policy is wrong and they should change it. I have yet to hear back from their customer service.
"I have been smoking cigars for about a year now and I truly enjoy every aspectof our great hobby. I am currently a member of the CigarWeekly.com forum aswell as a member of the CigarPass.com forum. With this being said, I mustinform you that I am 19 years old.As I understand it, your website has a 21 year old and older policy. I waswondering what the reasoning for this is. If I am not mistaken, the law statesthat you must be 18 years or older to purchase tobacco and tobacco relatedproducts, and in some states you must be 19. I also know that some of yourbiggest competitors have their age restriction set at 18 years old."
I guess we'll see what happens here, but right now...I will be taking my business else where. So much for customer service!
-AJ
"I have been smoking cigars for about a year now and I truly enjoy every aspectof our great hobby. I am currently a member of the CigarWeekly.com forum aswell as a member of the CigarPass.com forum. With this being said, I mustinform you that I am 19 years old.As I understand it, your website has a 21 year old and older policy. I waswondering what the reasoning for this is. If I am not mistaken, the law statesthat you must be 18 years or older to purchase tobacco and tobacco relatedproducts, and in some states you must be 19. I also know that some of yourbiggest competitors have their age restriction set at 18 years old."
I guess we'll see what happens here, but right now...I will be taking my business else where. So much for customer service!
-AJ
Bradley University Herf?
On Friday night I think my girl firend and I are goign to be stopping by BU to visit a friend of ours. He gave me the go-ahead to pack some cigars so that we could smoke them, man I'm excited! i plan on bringing plenty of extras (yard gars) to toss around to our friend's frat brothers. It should be a great time. I'm sure my girl friend will partake in the herfing as well :) I cant wait!!! Is it friday yet?!
-AJ
-AJ
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
That was short lived...
I seem to have gotten myself banned from the cigarbid forums because of my age. I forgot about their age restriction and admited that I was 19, however, I'm still angry about it. I dont see what the big deal is that I'm 19 and not 21...I can legally purchase tobacco and that is all that should matter, but what they're really telling me is that I can go fight in a war and die, but I cannot purchase their products. Hrmmm....brain scratcher.
-AJ
-AJ
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Cigar Bid Forums
I just joined the cigar bid forums. It seems like there are a lot of interesting people over there, some funny, some weird. I think it'll be a nice change of pace when Cigarweekly's forums are slow. I did mention that I was 19 without even thinking bout their age restriction on bidding. I really hope that doesnt turn out to bite me in the ***! I guess we'll see in the next few days!
Anyone else a member there?
-AJ
Anyone else a member there?
-AJ
Snow day!
Snow day in college? HELL YES! Classes were canceled for the entire day because of almost a foot of snow. No cigars today...but man, this couldn't be sweeter!!! Off to go play some video games....
Later-
Later-
Monday, February 12, 2007
Punch Rare Corojo Magnum
I only have a short time to review this cigar, but I figure a quick review is better then no review at all!
I would like to start out this review by thanking Jacob (JCole311) for hooking me up with a number of Premo smokes so that we could do a side by side review!
Setting: Outside my dorm. around 2:20pm (after lunch)
Beverage: None
Smoke time: 45-50 minutes
The wrapper on this box pressed cigar looked terrific. There were a few veins, but nothing a little box pressing didn't smooth out! The cigar produced a lot of thick smoke, which I really enjoyed. The burn on the cigar was suprisingly off. I did not have to relight the cigar at anytime which was nice, but I expected more of an even burn with a cigar made by Punch. Although it never fully evened out, the burn did correct itself somewhat about halfway into the cigar. The construction of the cigar was quite good, the ash finally fell off on its own after I smoked more then 1/4th of it!
At first, I thought that this was going to be a mild cigar, but shortly after it was lit, it turned into a medium bodied cigar. I couldn't exactly put my finger on a certain "taste", but it tasted somewhat peppery to me. Towards the last quarter of the cigar, the taste got somewhat bitter, but not overwhelmingly.
Although I am VERY greatful for the opportunity to review this cigar, I would have to say that I enjoyed the Punch Pita EMS a lot more then I enjoyed the Rare Corojo Magnum. With the prices being around $4 for the Pita compared to a $7 price tag on the Corojo, I will stick with the Pita. With that being said, I did enjoy the cigar and I would smoke another one if it was gifted to me, I just dont think I will be purchasing any of these in the near future.
Punch Rare Corojo Magnum Score: 29.5/50.
I would like to start out this review by thanking Jacob (JCole311) for hooking me up with a number of Premo smokes so that we could do a side by side review!
Setting: Outside my dorm. around 2:20pm (after lunch)
Beverage: None
Smoke time: 45-50 minutes
The wrapper on this box pressed cigar looked terrific. There were a few veins, but nothing a little box pressing didn't smooth out! The cigar produced a lot of thick smoke, which I really enjoyed. The burn on the cigar was suprisingly off. I did not have to relight the cigar at anytime which was nice, but I expected more of an even burn with a cigar made by Punch. Although it never fully evened out, the burn did correct itself somewhat about halfway into the cigar. The construction of the cigar was quite good, the ash finally fell off on its own after I smoked more then 1/4th of it!
At first, I thought that this was going to be a mild cigar, but shortly after it was lit, it turned into a medium bodied cigar. I couldn't exactly put my finger on a certain "taste", but it tasted somewhat peppery to me. Towards the last quarter of the cigar, the taste got somewhat bitter, but not overwhelmingly.
Although I am VERY greatful for the opportunity to review this cigar, I would have to say that I enjoyed the Punch Pita EMS a lot more then I enjoyed the Rare Corojo Magnum. With the prices being around $4 for the Pita compared to a $7 price tag on the Corojo, I will stick with the Pita. With that being said, I did enjoy the cigar and I would smoke another one if it was gifted to me, I just dont think I will be purchasing any of these in the near future.
Punch Rare Corojo Magnum Score: 29.5/50.
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