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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 <\/p>\n Cigar.Com Shipping<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n CigarsInternational.Com Shipping<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n 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 ![\"Cigar.Com](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8321\/7997739041_703df876a9_c.jpg?resize=584%2C781\" "\\"Cigar.Com")
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