El Cedro??
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Anyone try these, just saw a interview with him and Robby over at C Chat, I bought a fiver of CG I hope they're as good as they say
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Now since the show we had never sold advertising, meaning we were generating no money at all. Each month our membership has increased, traffic increased, and we've added new shows and mods/writers. Now we sell advertising, albeit very little but I am not involved. We started the store to give readers the ability to buy stuff like el Cedro which you can't find anywhere. The store is basically an extension under the umbrella of Emilio, as the owner has 27 B&M's, so it's his license, our very small operation. Really our goal is to have the real small batch stuff. Now does that mean hopefully we get paid one day? Sure, I'd like to be. I do get free cigars from time to time which is nice, and the show was awesome. I think if you met the guys, you wouldn't question their objectivity. I think Rob and Logan should be paid as they bust their ****, and hopefully the shop can afford the site the ability to compensate those guys. Everything up to this point has been done for the love of the leaf, and god knows how many hours Rob and Logan have worked for free over the years. Obviously given the store connection now, I've been less involved here, as I don't want to ruffle any feathers, but ccom will always be close to my heart as I started here.
Now as far as objectivity of reviews is concerned, I think having 6 palates reviewing allows the consume the ability to find guys that have similar tastes, and trust their opinions. Logan blasted the EZ Tantrum. When I reviewed it, it was too spicy to me, but still excellent. Same with the new Draig, excellent cigar, too spicy to me, but my job is to evaluate quality and recommend accordingly. I think it's easy to tell when a reviewer really likes something, versus respects a quality cigar, versus not impressed. Gettin free smokes from any manufacturer is going to affect objectivity of any and all review sites and honestly we trade smokes amongst reviewers if we know certain guys are better off reviewing something. Now that's not to say Logan is more likely to give a spicy cigar a grea review, but he is more likely to understand it objectively versus the competition, where I'd just toss it. Same with mild stuff for me. We still strive to review outsider our comfort zone as well as often as possible too.
Anyways, I hope that helps. Feel free to ask away man, all the guys are straight shooters. As of this point, all of us are either doing this free, or if someone is getting paid, it's probably severely underpaid. I don't ask though, I just do it for the love, and hope one day someone pays attention to my writing. In the meantime,y relationships from the show has gotten me invites to Nica and the DR. I'll post pics next month
My favorite cigar list here