Cigars

[Wigwam_Motel]

what's the difference btw a $.25 cigar and a $12.99 cigars?

 

[mcroom]

$12.74, taste, construction, quality of wrapper, binder and filler?

 

[Danilo]

well, depends id it's a 2009 .25$ cigar, or one that cost a quarter in the 60's... cause the .25 cigar from the 60's, if it was well cared for, should be incredible now, and worth as much as the 13dollar cigar.

Is this a trick question?

 

[GUSTO]

Marketing costs

 

[bballbaby]

well for starters, the difference between a $0.25 cigar and a $12.99 cigar is the price.

 

[CoolP]

well, depends id it's a 2009 .25$ cigar, or one that cost a quarter in the 60's... cause the .25 cigar from the 60's, if it was well cared for, should be incredible now, and worth as much as the 13dollar cigar.

Is this a trick question?

This is definately a trick question!!
I agree with you 100%
Here's what I think. Let's assume that it is 2009 released cigar. In my opinion to get to the .25 price point, the would have to have been harvested last year (in the northern hemisphere) and last week ( in the southern hemisphere), processed, rolled, and released. What's the quality of that cigar. Or the seller got an incredible deal on an out of business manufacturer and has little cost per cigar. Only taste will tell the difference.

A better question is what is the difference between a 5-15 dollar cigar and a 20-30 dollar one?

 

[Chip]

The .25 cigar is positively machine made using short fillers (ground up tobacco). The more expensive one is most likely hand rolled, uses long filler (you can get longer ash on your cigar before it falls off), and is probably a blend of several different tobaccos. That doesn't mean you should not buy the .25 cigar, but in most cases the more expensive cigar will have more complex tastes to it. Try both and buy what you prefer or can afford. Supposedly George Burns smoked very cheap cigars and I am sure he could have purchased any cigar he wanted.

-Chip-

 

[tatjunkie]

Well I think this is a trick question....

$0.25 is what it cost to manufacture
$12.99 Avg. cost to the consumer to purchase the cigar

 

[weskimad]

The $.25 cigar would have cost about $.22 before schip, while the $12.99 would have cost about $12.60 before the new schip.

 

[smokinghole]

The price variance is a mystery to me. Sure you can chock it up to taste quality construction and so forth. Besides paying rollers higher there would be no additional cost. It's not like long term aging of spirits where you lose much of the product. So your 20yr old scotch that's $$$ is like paying for the lost product they could have sold had it not aged so long. With cigars I highly doubt the tobacco disappears when they're aging it prior to rolling. Then to go along with that they have varying grades which they can choose to roll "lower" quality cigars with if it does not meet color and so forth. Then if they don't want it at all they can just sell it off. It's not like a local farmer charges 2-3 times more for a his best carrot crop, they sell just like the rest.

Alas tobacco is a luxury business and they can charge what ever they want to see if we'll pay for it. So to answer your question Kumar I think the difference is what the tobacco grower wants to price his crop at that particular year coupled with what the manufacturer wants to make on top of the rolled cigar. It's the same with coffee beans.

 

[CoolP]

Time spent ageing, sorting, and blending, rolling, then ageing again is also a factor in the cost. I couldn't explain the difference in price. Maybe the .25 manufacturer/seller just has some slow selling stock to get rid of to make room for higher profit product.
All this would assume quality product to start with.

 

[Penzip]

Well here is my little take on it. What is price , you pay for what you like. If you like the .25 or the $12 one, is all in what you like to smoke. There maybe something different in the making of the cigar or the tobacco , should it be short , Med , Long . The guys that have been smoking for sometime now have one time or so have smoked all of them. So smoking as far as price well for me is a big ? , smoke what you like and what you feel is a good price for you to smoke.

 

[Volusianator]

.25 =

 

[Mitch]

what's the difference btw a $.25 cigar and a $12.99 cigars?

I hope I never have to find out.

 

[smokemifugotem]

Before and after SCHIP....

 

[Terrasco]

Excellent post! I enjoyed this.

 

[Brazilla]

So....Now we have 17 posts and two pages covered on a question that could or could not be a play on words or random thought floating in the abyss of an oxygen starved brain idling down from a night of nicotine indulgents.

either way......

 

[Electric Sheep]

LMAO! Yup, that' true, Bear!