B&Mers, as I call em, luurve Gurkhas. If you buy all your sticks at your local store and the only stuff you ever read about cigars is in CA magazine, you'll never realize how overpriced they are for what they are.
I'd have no problem with them if they were billed as moderately priced, average smokes. But the way they're marketed is ridiculous and destroys any respect I might otherwise have for the brand.
The average B&Mer smokes a tiny fraction of the variety that the guys on forums like this one do, so how is he going to compare? Most guys on these forums probably smoke more different kinds of sticks in 3 months than the average B&Mer smokes in a lifetime.
My own records indicate that I've smoked 68 different lines of cigars since the beginning of this year. 3 of those were Gurkahs. One was a solid $3 stick and the other two were absolutely awful. Ironically, the Trident was the decent one and it's considered a "budget" Gurkah. The other two I won't mention.