Scored some Schwag

[neoflex]

Decided today at lunch to take a little walk and stumbled on a B&M around the block some. They hand roll a lot of their own there. I ended up buying a CAO Italia for an after lunch smoke and ended up BSing with the owner for a little while and he threw me a few sticks el free-o. Figure I will try them out in the next week or so and if there any good I'll buy a few more sticks to share with the board.

[12stones]

What sticks were you given?

[joshua]

Thats pretty sweet. Its always great when you can get to know the people workin at a place and build a relationship. Makes coming there more a pleasure, they give you better service cause they know you, and its good for them cause you keep coming back.

[Ms. Floydp]

that's a good B&M.. they care about repeat business.

[Jeff]

Treat your customers right and they will come back. I'd have no problem patronizing a B&M like that.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by joshua

Thats pretty sweet. Its always great when you can get to know the people workin at a place and build a relationship. Makes coming there more a pleasure, they give you better service cause they know you, and its good for them cause you keep coming back.

Sigh... it'd be easier for B&M's to market if they basically had a deal to charge 10% over the best price I can get online + the s/h and local taxes.

So if a box cost $80 and s/h was $15, I'd be willing to quickly pay $80 + $8 + $15 = $103 for the same box right there.

Instead, the typical B&M will charge something like $120, forcing me to look REAL CLOSE at getting the same thing for $95.

Or maybe people could qualify as "Frequent Flyers" by qualifying for the better rate after purchasing $250 in goods from the B&M.

I want to support local B&M's, especially here in herf-hostile Southern California where the likes of Rob Reiner and Barbara Streisand would like to outlaw stogies , anything that tastes good and, worse, any shiny goblin-scaring toy that makes very loud noises.

[neoflex]

Originally Posted by 12stones

What sticks were you given?

It was their own blend. a couple with a Maduro wrapper and a couple with a Connecticut shade wrapper. They are said to be a Nic/Honduran filler. I figured I would give them a few days in the Humi before I smoke them. I will let you know how it goes.

[sirsmokesalot]

i see your in Long Island, was this shop on lakeville rd.?

i go to a guy there that has a nice shop and has given me a few unbanded torpedoes with the blend you mentioned, i tried some with red wrapper, they where nice smokes..

[neoflex]

No it's on 9th Ave in Manhattan. It's a real small shop, so if your not paying attention you would walk right past it. Were is Lakeville Rd?

[sirsmokesalot]

Originally Posted by neoflex

No it was in Manhattan. Were is Lakeville Rd?

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