Box Pricing at B&M's

karmaz00 · 01-03-2009, 03:07 AM

deffintly not in canada...the prices here are retarted...i do 99 % of my shopping online or in cuba!!

GoatLocker · 01-03-2009, 12:41 PM

CA has a 45% tax on the wholesale price (the price to the shop), plus 7-3/4% sales tax. Seeing as shops here pay 45% more for the cigars, there is no way they can match online retailers. There are some notable exceptions, like Tatuajes, which are about the same price at my b&m as online. I guess that means either the online vendors are making a killing on cigars like tats, or my local has worked out a very good wholesale price...

That said, my local takes 10% off on full boxes and another 10% for military.

chippewastud79 · 01-03-2009, 12:57 PM

I know I am spolied living in Kentucky where there is no tobacco tax, but like BengalMan stated in the first response, it just isn't in the profit margin for B+M's to match online vendor prices. Online vendors move large(r) volumes and don't pay state taxes (which you are supposed to pay yourself when you buy). If we all reported out online purchases and in turn paid the taxes we were supposed to the prices would become a wash.

B+M's are an integral part of the cigar world, and I know it isn't fun walking into a store and paying well over double what a stick could be had for online, but keep in mind that you are paying for the atmosphere. Online vendors do not provide you with conversation, a place to sit, or the opportunity to see/smell/touch/smoke the cigar as soon as you buy it. Instant gratification

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Originally Posted by karmaz00

deffintly not in canada...the prices here are retarted...i do 99 % of my shopping online or in cuba!!

Sure you could have used a different adjective, even with the spelling

Texan in Mexico · 01-03-2009, 01:05 PM

I agree with what has been stated here.

1). B&M tend to give you a 10% discount on box purchases.

2). We should support our local B&Ms as they are one of the havens we still have to smoke in public

3). They offer us a great way to try out new sticks without doing the guesswork on a box

4). The Chat on this site is great but face to face conversation with BOTL is tough to beat

The only B&M I have been to where the discount was better than 10 or 15% is Corona Club in Orlando.

I have bought boxes there that reflected a 30% discount more than once.

01-03-2009, 03:07 AM	#1
karmaz00 Habanos Join Date: Dec 2008 First Name: Jason Location: victoria Posts: 1,855 Trading: (1)	Re: Box Pricing at B&M's deffintly not in canada...the prices here are retarted...i do 99 % of my shopping online or in cuba!!

01-03-2009, 12:41 PM	#2
GoatLocker Dr of Quantum Inebrionics Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Eric Location: Sandy Eggo Posts: 434 Trading: (1)	Re: Box Pricing at B&M's CA has a 45% tax on the wholesale price (the price to the shop), plus 7-3/4% sales tax. Seeing as shops here pay 45% more for the cigars, there is no way they can match online retailers. There are some notable exceptions, like Tatuajes, which are about the same price at my b&m as online. I guess that means either the online vendors are making a killing on cigars like tats, or my local has worked out a very good wholesale price... That said, my local takes 10% off on full boxes and another 10% for military. __________________ "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form." Winston Churchill

01-03-2009, 01:05 PM	#4
Texan in Mexico Feeling at Home Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Travis Location: Puerto Morelos, Mexico Posts: 958 Trading: (0)	Re: Box Pricing at B&M's I agree with what has been stated here. 1). B&M tend to give you a 10% discount on box purchases. 2). We should support our local B&Ms as they are one of the havens we still have to smoke in public 3). They offer us a great way to try out new sticks without doing the guesswork on a box 4). The Chat on this site is great but face to face conversation with BOTL is tough to beat The only B&M I have been to where the discount was better than 10 or 15% is Corona Club in Orlando. I have bought boxes there that reflected a 30% discount more than once.