Duty Free Cigars

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Originally Posted by Don Fernando

Yes, you have to prove that you are an international departing passenger, but you show that proof and your destination after you picked the item from the shelves, where you already have seen the price. If the prices would be different for every destination, yeah, I would follow your story, but that isn't the case.

I don't think that's what he's saying...

I think he means it's possible that they gather the information about passenger destinations and formulate their pricing from where the most customers are headed, not that they have different prices for every destination. Which I myself don't think is true, I just want to clarify what I think he's saying. I think they just price the products like every other business (cost plus overhead), and since it's tax free it ends up being cheaper than it would be any other place in the country the shop is in.

Duty free may not be as cheap as you would like them to be...but duty free on a ship cost me about as much as they would at a local B&M...but I didn't have to pay any taxes...so that saved me the 68% tax, which adds up to savings.