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jw517jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
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I won/bought a 5er of Gurkha Sedution last week and just had to try one! All my cigars come from cigarbid now and to be honest I have not unwrapped many paks at all. They are all sleeping in my cigar fridge at about 72RH average. I punched the cap and it cracked and about fell off. As I was smoking it,it cracked in about 4 places. By the time I was done it looked like a rag. It was a good cigar I thought but with all the problems it was not a good experience. I had this trouble with a 20 pak of HC Red Corojo too on the first smoke. Are they (cigarbid ) not keeping these things in good condition? Is this a fluke?

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  • jw517jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    Ha,ha. I do have others that are fine so that's not it. 
  • jw517jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    I was going to call cigarbid and tell them my findings but I don't want to rock the boat if this is a isolated incident.
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jw517 said:
    I was going to call cigarbid and tell them my findings but I don't want to rock the boat if this is a isolated incident.

    keep smoking Gurkha's, it will not be an isolated incident.
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  • jw517jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    I would not want to hand a friend this cigar then. Maybe my son-in-law!
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jw517 said:
    I was going to call cigarbid and tell them my findings but I don't want to rock the boat if this is a isolated incident.
    i think you should go ahead and call them up. you don't have to rock the boat too hard, just lean overboard a little.
  • jw517jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    One would think you could properly humidify even a piece of crap if that was your business.
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What is the ambient humidity and temp of the smoking environment? Could be a combination of problems. Maybe one part of it is an extreme humidity swing between resting in your humidor and light-up, and could be cracking your wrappers. Try setting them out where you will be smoking for an hour before light-up. Worth a try. Or dry boxing. 
  • ForMudForMud Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Of the three sticks I've thrown into the woodstove all have them have been Gurkhas... and I'm a cheap as s who won't throw out anything I've spent money no matter how bad it tastes.
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sketch6995 said:
    The ones that smoke decent are fine cigars.
    This is a good point.  I never had any problem out of the original Park Avenue, or the Black Ops.  A year or so back I had a Seduction that was very good, but the next one Gurkha'd on me.
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  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,022 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Seduction used to be a favorite of mine. Until they started selling them through online. Quality went down fast. 
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