A while ago I wrote about whether or not buying cigars online was right for you and we looked at the quality of the cigars that you might buy online compared to the ones that you might buy in a cigar store. I suggested that what you saw, touched and even smelt in a cigar store was what you got while that may not always be the case if you bought online.

I also suggested that while you often save money when you buy your cigars online that saving in dollars isn't everything because there are some very real benefits from buying your cigars at your local cigar store so let's look at these other benefits in some more detail and perhaps you'll see the value as I see it.

The first benefit of buying from your local cigar store, apart from the obvious benefits that I mentioned before, is the fact that you're dealing with a real person. You look him in the eye and you can judge what he is saying about the products you're interested in buying from his body language. Over time you will begin to trust what he says and you will learn to rely on his judgment.

There's not much body language in the descriptions of the various products that an online cigar store is trying to sell you. The person who wrote those descriptions may not even be a cigar smoker and all he might be doing is stringing some words together that will encourage you to buy regardless of what might be right for you.