25$ for his new Churchill???
I've been on the PJ bandwagon since the very beginning. I think now though Pete has lost it. Maybe he needs more than one Ferrari. I don't know, nor do I care. But it seems to me he has "jumped the shark" as far as cigars go. For him to charge 25$ a stick is absolutly rediculous. It's going to be straw that broke the camel's back for me.
Some of the mistakes he has made recently as far as I'm concerned are:
1- charges 25$ for his new cigar
2- come out with a cigar that cost 14$ and claim it needs time (a year+) before it will be good. i.e. Black tubo (aka dog rocket)
3- Rush out with a shit stick that reeks of varnish. Only a paint huffer would love these. Then claim it wouldn't impregnate the cigars. Why treat your customers like they're dumb?
4- Make some online non-B&M retailer one of your main places to get new releases first a week or two before places that helped put you on the map and have been with you since the beginning. If Pete thinks more than a few retailers who have been with around since Tatuaje's infantcy aren't pissed about this he is mistaken.
Something tells me that in the early days it was about the cigars. Now it's about the cash.
Please keep in mind I've smoked boxes and boxes of Pete's stuff, way north of 50 boxes. I've never had any personal issues of any kind with him. Just fed-up with what's going on with the guy who is really behind some of my favorite everyday cigars of the last five or six years.
Like I said to my buddy Jay tonight, "there will always be something just as good or better coming out soon". Something tells me the next one for me won't cost near 25$ a stick.
As always, just my $.02
I've been on the PJ bandwagon since the very beginning. I think now though Pete has lost it. Maybe he needs more than one Ferrari. I don't know, nor do I care. But it seems to me he has "jumped the shark" as far as cigars go. For him to charge 25$ a stick is absolutly rediculous. It's going to be straw that broke the camel's back for me.
Some of the mistakes he has made recently as far as I'm concerned are:
1- charges 25$ for his new cigar
2- come out with a cigar that cost 14$ and claim it needs time (a year+) before it will be good. i.e. Black tubo (aka dog rocket)
3- Rush out with a shit stick that reeks of varnish. Only a paint huffer would love these. Then claim it wouldn't impregnate the cigars. Why treat your customers like they're dumb?
4- Make some online non-B&M retailer one of your main places to get new releases first a week or two before places that helped put you on the map and have been with you since the beginning. If Pete thinks more than a few retailers who have been with around since Tatuaje's infantcy aren't pissed about this he is mistaken.
Something tells me that in the early days it was about the cigars. Now it's about the cash.
Please keep in mind I've smoked boxes and boxes of Pete's stuff, way north of 50 boxes. I've never had any personal issues of any kind with him. Just fed-up with what's going on with the guy who is really behind some of my favorite everyday cigars of the last five or six years.
Like I said to my buddy Jay tonight, "there will always be something just as good or better coming out soon". Something tells me the next one for me won't cost near 25$ a stick.
As always, just my $.02
