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[Flounder]

What do factories do with their seconds? Even if there is just a few?

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by Flounder

What do factories do with their seconds? Even if there is just a few?

They usually will sell them as a large lot to Gurkha and they will in turn pass them off as $20 cigars....just kidding they will sell them to stores to sell them as seconds. Go to Cigars International of Famous Cigar and do a search for 'seconds'.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by awsmith4

They usually will sell them as a large lot to Gurkha and they will in turn pass them off as $20 cigars....just kidding they will sell them to stores to sell them as seconds. Go to Cigars International of Famous Cigar and do a search for 'seconds'.

LOL at the Gurkha bit. As for the "seconds" at CI, Famous, etc. eh.... not exactly, most of those aren't truly seconds. The RP stuff is flat out firsts with no bands, boxes and less aging time.

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by T.G

LOL at the Gurkha bit. As for the "seconds" at CI, Famous, etc. eh.... not exactly, most of those aren't truly seconds. The RP stuff is flat out firsts with no bands, boxes and less aging time.

Did not realize that...you learn something new every day.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by Flounder

What do factories do with their seconds? Even if there is just a few?

Depends on the factory and the cigars, more times than not though, the QC guys just smoke them. Except at Padron, where Orlando smokes them.

I'm serious. He thinks it's great - he's one of the richest men in the cigar business and he walks around smoking all the rejected, busted x000 cigars.

Some factories they destroy them, like Fuente, where they will rip the cigar up as to make it unusable, unrepairable and unsmokeable, then throw it in the trash.

Sometimes they can be reworked, but typically it's not worth the labor cost to do that. Remember, the cigars with the most expensive components are being rolled buy the workers least likely to screw up and create a second.