{"id":3885,"date":"2012-09-17T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2012-09-17T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:25:21","slug":"the-big-difference-between-cigar-com-and-cigarsinternational-com-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"The big difference between cigar.com and cigarsinternational.com [PHOTO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saying I have a “thing” for cigars is like saying Cookie Monster has a “slight predisposition” to cookies. I love cigars. Loooove cigars. To paraphrase Will Rogers, I never met a cigar I didn’t like.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the local specialty “cigar shop” is full of overpriced, mold covered, dried out, busted drek. Literally. Check out these photos…<\/p>\n

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Local Cigar Shop 01<\/p><\/div>\n

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Local Cigar Shop 02<\/p><\/div>\n

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Blasphemy! Sacrilege! It should be illegal to beat down cigars like this, I tell you.<\/p>\n

Since I have no local shop to rely on, I’ve been buying everything online at either at cigar.com<\/a> or cigarsinternational.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t had any kind of problem whatsoever with either website. Both have outstanding customer service, both have great everyday and sale prices, and both deliver their shipments a day or two earlier than promised. Both have great weekly deals, and between the two of them, I can get just about any cigar I’m craving.<\/p>\n

I will always go with cigar.com first, though. No contest.<\/p>\n

With absolutely everything else being identical, here’s why cigar.com is the king…<\/p>\n

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Cigar.Com Shipping<\/p><\/div>\n

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Every shipment from cigar.com, regardless of the cigar’s retail price, has a HumiCare pillow in every thick-walled heavy-duty ziploc.<\/p>\n

A HumiCare pillow is like a mini-humidifier. It has hundreds of little beads inside that absorb distilled water and regulate the humidity in small enclosures for a brief time. You can reuse those little pouches as many times as you want by just opening the HumiCare pouch, dipping the inner “pillow” in distilled water for a few seconds, letting any extra water drip off, and putting it back inside the HumiCare pouch again and again and again.<\/p>\n

A little portable pouch is no replacement for a real humidor, but when I open that outer ziploc from a new cigar.com shipment, the cigars smell fresh with a capital F. The temptation to not smoke one right there and then? Almost impossible to deny.<\/p>\n

All because of that little well saturated HumiCare pillow.<\/p>\n

Cigarsinternational.com shipping?<\/p>\n

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CigarsInternational.Com Shipping<\/p><\/div>\n

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A wafer thin plastic baggie with no HumiCare or humidification packet at all.<\/p>\n

If UPS or FedEx delivers a cigarsinternational.com shipment at the end of a typical south Texas summer day, I usually smell cardboard packaging looooong before I smell the cigars. Sometimes the ziplocs pop open inside the UPS box, too, and I find loose cigars all over the shipping box.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong. The quality of the cigars from both companies are outstanding. Give a Liga, Ave Maria or a Cohiba from either company after a weeklong dip in my humidor, and I couldn’t tell you which one came from where.<\/p>\n

Can cigar.com save some time and money by not including a “prepped” HumiCare packet with every shipment? Definitely. But knowing my cigars, regardless of price range, will always arrive fresh and in good condition? That’s worth the “first view” when I go shopping every single time.<\/p>\n

Suddenly I have a craving for a cigar…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saying I have a “thing” for cigars is like saying Cookie Monster has a “slight predisposition” to cookies. I love cigars. Loooove cigars. To paraphrase Will Rogers, I never met a cigar I didn’t like. Unfortunately, the local specialty “cigar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigars","category-photos","category-rant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t