Crappy Expensive Lighter

[kanadakid]

It's been a while since I posted gents but had to get this post off my chest.

I have bought my last anything made by Colibri. $60.00 lighter, the entire guts fell out, 2 years old. Send back to colibri and they won't fix the lighter for me or replace.

They claim that it is out of warrenty. I'm calling Famous Cigar where I bought the lighter just to complain. But what a horrible CS policy.

I know that Cigar.com has the new Xikar lighter which have a lifetime warrenty and the entry level Duponts. Any thought on either.

$60.00 and the guts just feel out of the lighter......can you beleive that ?


Kid

[Aladdin Sane]

That sucks! Write it up as a learning experiance

Go to your local Wallyworld and pick up a few dozen Ronson torch lighters and youll be set!!

[Perry72]

Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane

That sucks! Write it up as a learning experiance

Go to your local Wallyworld and pick up a few dozen Ronson torch lighters and youll be set!!

The cheapies work great.

[EveryPipeDotCom]

Cheap .50 Cent Lighters work Just as good ....
And 2 Years for a lighter is a long time , I lose lighters every day thats why i dont buy the epensive ones .

Cheers ,
Yossi G

[Simplified]

I had a $99 Colibri that was a POS lots of other options for much less...

[Drazzil]

Colibri makes the worst POS lighters that ever fell off the back of a factory truck. I'd bet that the colibri contract all their work out to North Korea, where Colibri lighters are assembled by hand by elderly shaved labotomized apes with althimizers. They are then flown to China on a TU-54 with two engines missing, and a drunken one eyed pilot who flew scouting missions during world war one. The lighters then arrive in communist China where they are approved and signed off by an eighty year old mid level communist party official with a six hundred dollar a day heroin habit. The lighters are then flown to the US and sold in great whacking lots where a dime can buy three thousand.

Thats why they are given out for free whenever you sign up for Cigar Magazine or buy anything worth over a quarter at those cigar clearing houses.

[JaKaAch]

3 dollars at Wal-Mart, and Walgreens..
Super Lighter. Works great.
http://www.ronsoncorp.com/jetlite_detail.cfm

[croatan]

Originally Posted by kanadakid

$60.00 and the guts just feel out of the lighter......can you beleive that ?

It was a Colibri. So, yes.

[Sames Reincarnated]

I use my Zippo and that seems to get the job done.

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by croatan

It was a Colibri. So, yes.

Very true! If it was two years old, it only had a one year limited warranty when you bought it. The cheapest line, Firebird, seems to last longer than the high dollar models.

[LORD PUFFER]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

Very true! If it was two years old, it only had a one year limited warranty when you bought it. The cheapest line, Firebird, seems to last longer than the high dollar models.

This was my first purchased lighter. It doesn't work all that bad, but still more than I want to pay. Ronson all the way and if you are privledged enough, then get a Dupont.

[neoflex]

Colibri=Junk.
I bought a Zippo with the Z-Plus torch insert and it is by far the best lighter I have ever owned. You can't kill the bastid. Only downfall is it has a small tank but I'll deal with that to have reliability any day. My cheapo Truck Stop triple flame torch has been holding up real well too. It's been my experience that the less I spend on a lighter the more reliable it is and the more I can count on it on a day to day basis.

[brigey]

Sorry to hear about the bum deal!

I never spend more than $10 on any lighter. They all work well and I'm never out more than the little amount I spend for the lighters. If I lose them or if they break, no biggie!

[SmokeyJoe]

Originally Posted by Perry72

The cheapies work great.

I love my Ronson... $2.94!

[hova45]

Originally Posted by kanadakid

It's been a while since I posted gents but had to get this post off my chest.

I have bought my last anything made by Colibri. $60.00 lighter, the entire guts fell out, 2 years old. Send back to colibri and they won't fix the lighter for me or replace.

They claim that it is out of warrenty. I'm calling Famous Cigar where I bought the lighter just to complain. But what a horrible CS policy.

I know that Cigar.com has the new Xikar lighter which have a lifetime warrenty and the entry level Duponts. Any thought on either.

$60.00 and the guts just feel out of the lighter......can you beleive that ?




Kid

I don't know about entry level Duponts they are still 180-220 so I doubt the xtends are entry level. I would go with the xikar i have that was gifted to me and it works great.