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[reliefdvm]

Depends on your tax region. Here in canada a it is $19 for a party short and $7 for a JLP cazadores. Our customs is on top of most so mail order doesn't work well either. You guys don't know how good you have it with your low taxes and ease of getting things shipped in.
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OUCH!! I just picked up 25 Brevas for around $45 US. For what I can buy around here in the NC I wouldn't want to use them for anything more lighting off fireworks.

 

[CuritibaRex]

"Unlike many CCs, one thing I can definitely say it WAS NOT .... and that is over-priced."


To each his own, but I find the opposite to be true. I have to spend a lot more to get a decent NC than a CC. For $4 to $6 a stick there are multitudes of CC's that are heavenly and I would much rather smoke than a PAM or Opus or Tatuaje or whatever that costs much more......

Oh, I totally understand where you are coming from there, Brother. As in so many endeavors, one gets what one pays for. No doubt. I just happen to be blessed to live in a country that produces exceptional puros on a production scale of and quality-level equal to that of Cuba. I can buy Bahian handmade long-filler, puro cigars at half, one third, even one fourth the price of comparable CCs. That is, comparable in richness and complexity of taste and aroma. In fact, in one way - better. I have never had to age a Brazilian cigar to insure against the possibility of youthful ammonia transmission that happens so often with CCs. If I buy it, I can smoke it. And yes, I am talking on a par with Partagas, Montecristo, H. Uppman, Cohiba, Cuaba. The cigars of Brazil are indeed that good. I can buy a Bahia handmade Candido Giovanella for about (U.S.) 80 cents that is as good as the J.L.P. Breva.

$3.75 is way overpriced for this stick, you should be looking from the $2-$3 range. Hell for a quarter more you could be smoking a Boli PC at that price you could be smoking a RASCC or even Party short and it all of these you're getting tobacco from better growing regions.

Actually, in my review I used the Brazilian Reais at that 3.75 price and wrote (U.S.) after it without actually making the conversion calculation, which is about 2 to 1. So in fact, I paid about a buck 90 per stick.

Pricing is only an issue when standing beside comparable quality. I have other quality "go to"s for better cost of any in the Ramone Allones line. And the Partagas petite robusto, while relatively inexpensive for a Partagas, has never really satisfied like the Piramide, Corona Gordo or regular Robustos of the Series D or P, most of which tend to border on cost prohibitive, at least in relation to comparability to my pricepoint preferencial smokes.