solomr2 said:
What I find odd is the Cuban seal and the "Habanos" stickers are on the opposite side of where they normally are. Usually the cuban seal is in the lower left corner (looking at the front side of the box) and the Habanos sticker is on the top right.
Not so with Cohiba... for some reason or another.. they have it in reverse on their cabinet boxes... just checked on a few of mine ones (which I know to be legimite stock to 100% certainty) and they've got the stickers in the same places too...
From what I can tell by the picture.. there is nothing to indicate fugazi.. but some of the pictures are not very clear.. for instance, how many workers are there in the field on the government seal? There should be 9 workers as this is an 04 box..
The best advise was given though.. don't buy from someone you don't trust and know when buying privately.. with vendors, the best you can do is re-search them.. enough until you are satisfied that you can trust them.
For all we know about these cigars is that the box is real and the cigars inside could still be fugazi.. I've seen a box of cohiba where the lid was real.. so was the bottom.. didn't come from the same batch however.,. the top was taken from a later version of cohiba and put on a legitimit bottom of a june 94 box..The only way to spot it was to know that the style the lid was is didn't come out until a year later...... God only knows what the cigars inside was.. This box is now a part of my friend Tony's (a vendor here) example on how smart and hard to detect the fugazi people can be.....
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