Price Gouging

[tomc3084]

Does Fuente care if authorized dealers gouge his products? Just curious since so many do it...I was just quoted by a website that 800+ for a box of 32 Petit Lanceros is retail HAH.....I told him my bm sells them for 12-13 he said thats how much they went for in the 90s...yeah right, I hate gougers!!How can you make a living off of someone elses misfortune?

[floydpink]

Nope, doesn't care.

[bobarian]

As has been said many times, a retailer is free to sell his goods at whatever price he feels. It is called CAPITALISM! If you dont like his price, then shop elsewhere. :rolleyes:

[Wolfgang]

Ive got some gorilla fingers. $100/inch.

[akumushi]

Ive got some gorilla fingers. $100/inch.

Them better be fingers off a real gorilla.:r:r

[tomc3084]

ive got some gorilla fingers. $100/inch.

rofl!

[wolfandwhisky]

someone must be paying it... just like the $80 Opus sticks at the local resorts...

[quantim0]

No such thing as price gouging. No one is forcing you to buy the product. You determine that it is not a price you are willing to pay and move on.

[alwayslit]

At that price they'll be sitting on them for a long while......LOL

[ucubed]

Well actually certain products...mainly Tatuaje, Illusione, and Padron are price protected...meaning if they catch you raising or even lowering prices you can lose your account....I'm not so sure if Fuente does it or not

[mosesbotbol]

Maybe your B&M is buying them grey market and paying too much wholesale?

Cigars are a tough business these days in USA for many B&M's.

[MedicCook]

Ive got some gorilla fingers. $100/inch.

If someone only smokes 1 inch does the next person get a discount for the remaining inch's?

[tomc3084]

Well actually certain products...mainly Tatuaje, Illusione, and Padron are price protected...meaning if they catch you raising or even lowering prices you can lose your account....I'm not so sure if Fuente does it or not

This is what I mean, that's why I asked...

[bobarian]

Price protection only applies to vendors who are authorized dealers. In Fuente's case they have not added an OpusX vendor in several years. A shop may be a Fuente dealer and still have to buy OpusX on the secondary market. In this case price protection rules do not apply. :2

[tomc3084]

Price protection only applies to vendors who are authorized dealers. In Fuente's case they have not added an OpusX vendor in several years. A shop may be a Fuente dealer and still have to buy OpusX on the secondary market. In this case price protection rules do not apply. :2

makes sense, THANKS

[mikey burr]

Price protection only applies to vendors who are authorized dealers. In Fuente's case they have not added an OpusX vendor in several years. A shop may be a Fuente dealer and still have to buy OpusX on the secondary market. In this case price protection rules do not apply. :2

:tpd:

[wolfandwhisky]

In the case of the Opus... I think a lot (all) of the online dealers buy their stock from the authorized B&Ms, and then sell them online... which then leads into bobarian's comment

[duckmanco]

this whole "price protecting" only seems to come about when the price is too low... when its well above msrp, well we don't seem to hear much about that. Complete and total BS, if a retailer can sell it for the price they set, let it happen, same goes for when the price is less than someone else's. JMO YMMV of course.

[CigarNut]

Ive got some gorilla fingers. $100/inch.You need to pass those along to Tom -- he likes them when his butt itches,,,

[Volt]

As has been said many times, a retailer is free to sell his goods at whatever price he feels. It is called CAPITALISM! If you dont like his price, then shop elsewhere. :rolleyes:

:tpd:

[newlifetaxidermy]

In this society, you should be able to charge what you want for your products. Supply and demand will actually dictate what you are able to get for it. It should be fairly easy to get opus at MSRP or at least pretty close. Now, if you HAVE to have an unopened box, then you might pay a premium for it, but the supply is not low enough for a box to command an $800 price tag. Still, someone might want it bad enough to pay that for it. I think that is what this particular retailer is hoping for.

[tupacboy]

someone has to be paying those prices... if not the retailer couldn't possibly stay in business :) ... just open a spot next to them for half the price!!!

[taltos]

Well actually certain products...mainly Tatuaje, Illusione, and Padron are price protected...meaning if they catch you raising or even lowering prices you can lose your account....I'm not so sure if Fuente does it or notFuente used to price protect with their authorized sellers. Much of the market in the Opus and Anejo lines is grey market and Fuente can't do anything about that.