FriendlyMan
07-05-2012, 08:44 AM
Just want to share this with you just in case you might be in my area or have a similar situation in your area and understand what I'm talking about.
It used to be more common then nowa days for us to see candy stores or luncheonette as they used to be called when we where younger. Now they are called coffee shops, newspaper stands, bodegas, etc... And many of those shops had and some still have, big signs in the front with big lettering, Cigars, or Tobbaco & pipes etc....
Until recently, when I got in to cigars I figured out that it acctualy means that they have or had an actual humidor in house. Most of them did sell the machine made but some did actually sell real good cigars. Reason for me saying this I started going into one shop like that a couple months ago because its the closest one to my house. So I checked it out to see if I can save a trip.
So its a decent size shop pretty clean, magazines, coffee, newspapers, cold drinks, cigerets, and all other junk these stores sell. He has like 5 or more shelves with hookas , like people would buy them by the dozen.
And then he has this nice sized walk in humidor in the back. What should I say, it so sad to walk in there. It looks like or he was robbed, or the owner died or he lost his lease.
Unfortunately, its for none of those reasons.
Half of the humidor is empty, Most boxes he has you can tell are not new. A lot of the names are not known to me and many are. It seams to me the only up side to this situation is that the cigars he has are there for some time so they are better to smoke. He dose have some names like A. Fuentue, Montecristo, Macanudo etc.. and plenty of acids. He has a lot of different cigars some on the bottom are messed up, but most on the top just look like they are waiting there to be picked up. You could tell by the wrapper that these are aged a little, like the off color, I slowly bought out one size of the a. Funtes as the winter passed , and now if I go back I'll slowly buy out his griffins, I have to tell you these sticks are yummy. They might be a little to soft, not sure I don't know how humid that place is. But its safer then dry, I keep them for a few days until I'm ready to smoke the few I buy.
One more thing is the price, I'm not very sure how up to date they are. Definitely not cheap, It's NYC, but you could tell from the price tags they are not from today.
As a cigar person, what bothers me the most, is that the owner seems to have no interest in the cigar bushiness at all. Or he bought an old shop and is just keeping the humidor alive for as long as its going to last. or he is so fed up with the taxes and how slow bushiness is that he doesn't care. #1 I think in order to sell cigars you should know cigars which I'm not sure he dose. And he shows no interest at all. I asked him and tried to start a conversation about connecting with other cigar people like online, or sales people, other shops. etc.. I see plenty of cigar sellers who have a good relation ship and work together to keep it strong. His mind seems so set about the taxes chasing everyone away that I had no one to talk too. I just wanted to try to tell him that smokers still like to have a relationship with there B&M even if they order online but he just was so out of it.
Bottom line, if you are in Brooklyn & you want to look to see if they have something you like there, that is ready to smoke maybe you'll be interested in something. I am going back for more griffins. But @ $9.75 a stick I'm not ready to buy all of them at one shot.
Sorry for the long post.
It used to be more common then nowa days for us to see candy stores or luncheonette as they used to be called when we where younger. Now they are called coffee shops, newspaper stands, bodegas, etc... And many of those shops had and some still have, big signs in the front with big lettering, Cigars, or Tobbaco & pipes etc....
Until recently, when I got in to cigars I figured out that it acctualy means that they have or had an actual humidor in house. Most of them did sell the machine made but some did actually sell real good cigars. Reason for me saying this I started going into one shop like that a couple months ago because its the closest one to my house. So I checked it out to see if I can save a trip.
So its a decent size shop pretty clean, magazines, coffee, newspapers, cold drinks, cigerets, and all other junk these stores sell. He has like 5 or more shelves with hookas , like people would buy them by the dozen.
And then he has this nice sized walk in humidor in the back. What should I say, it so sad to walk in there. It looks like or he was robbed, or the owner died or he lost his lease.
Unfortunately, its for none of those reasons.
Half of the humidor is empty, Most boxes he has you can tell are not new. A lot of the names are not known to me and many are. It seams to me the only up side to this situation is that the cigars he has are there for some time so they are better to smoke. He dose have some names like A. Fuentue, Montecristo, Macanudo etc.. and plenty of acids. He has a lot of different cigars some on the bottom are messed up, but most on the top just look like they are waiting there to be picked up. You could tell by the wrapper that these are aged a little, like the off color, I slowly bought out one size of the a. Funtes as the winter passed , and now if I go back I'll slowly buy out his griffins, I have to tell you these sticks are yummy. They might be a little to soft, not sure I don't know how humid that place is. But its safer then dry, I keep them for a few days until I'm ready to smoke the few I buy.
One more thing is the price, I'm not very sure how up to date they are. Definitely not cheap, It's NYC, but you could tell from the price tags they are not from today.
As a cigar person, what bothers me the most, is that the owner seems to have no interest in the cigar bushiness at all. Or he bought an old shop and is just keeping the humidor alive for as long as its going to last. or he is so fed up with the taxes and how slow bushiness is that he doesn't care. #1 I think in order to sell cigars you should know cigars which I'm not sure he dose. And he shows no interest at all. I asked him and tried to start a conversation about connecting with other cigar people like online, or sales people, other shops. etc.. I see plenty of cigar sellers who have a good relation ship and work together to keep it strong. His mind seems so set about the taxes chasing everyone away that I had no one to talk too. I just wanted to try to tell him that smokers still like to have a relationship with there B&M even if they order online but he just was so out of it.
Bottom line, if you are in Brooklyn & you want to look to see if they have something you like there, that is ready to smoke maybe you'll be interested in something. I am going back for more griffins. But @ $9.75 a stick I'm not ready to buy all of them at one shot.
Sorry for the long post.