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Originally Posted by coastietech
SmokeInn bought out Tobacco World. That is the local B&M that I go to. I don't know much about either owner I've talked to the new one for a bit.
What I do know is that before SmokeInn bought them out Opus X were ~$20+ and other cigars were priced really high. Now that Abe runs the place Opus X is ~$14 and everything else competes well with internet dealers.
The back is no longer members only from what I understand and the humidor prices have come down drastically. For the customers the buy out was a great thing. IMHO
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Yep, Abe from Smoke Inn bought out Kris, and Kris got divorced, and went back in the financial markets that he used to be in...might be commodities trading from what I heard in the store...store is going strong...remodelling...building a gigantic closed in humidor and redoing the lounge...reason Opus X's where so high when Kris had the store is that he couldn't buy direct from Fuente as they had some kind of falling out so he had to get AF products elsewhere...but, his prices on everything else were great and they've either stayed the same and in some cases gone down a bit under Abe...so you knew if you wanted an AF cigar at Kris's you were going to pay more for it...better to get it elsewhere...everything else was great though...hope Kris shows up when we get together...I think I have his phone number somewhere...