El Presidente Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 The numbers are interesting. The boom in cuban cigar imports appears to be about the time of a boom in online cigar vendors out of Switzerland. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/cuban-cigars_the-swiss-american-love-of-cuban-cigars/42038464 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbandz Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 "Which may go a little way toward explaining why some two-thirds of the total value of cigars imported into Switzerland come from Cuba. (It’s about one-third when measured by volume, which shows how pricey those Cuban smokes tend to be.)" Disagree with this.How could Cuban sticks sell for LESS than Non Cubans and cost twice as much wholesale? Do the math...... "Since 1988, the value of Cuban cigars imported into Switzerland has more than doubled." What does this mean? That the 1988 Cuban cigars in Switzerland have more than doubled in value? That the cost of Cuban cigars since 1988 has more than doubled? That Cuban cigars are worth more if they come from Swiss vendors? That Swiss vendors are selling more than twice as many Cuban cigars than in 1988 (28 years)? "Americans’ insatiable taste for Cuban cigars accounts for at least one of every ten cigars the Cubans export each year, according to reports in the Cigar Aficionado magazine. In top cigar shops in Swiss and other European cities, the percentage appears to run higher" And in one paragraph,the writer confuses things even more,by stating the US buys 10 % of the total cigar exports of Cuba,then that the US accounts for 10% or more of the allotments in European cities. Rob,how many damn cigars are you selling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RijkdeGooier Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Any hard facts to back this up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colt45 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 That Sven was onto something.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCgarman Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Lets face it, the majority of Americans who are ordering Cuban boxes online are using at least one of the many vendors based in Switzerland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomF Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Lets face it, the majority of Americans who are ordering Cuban boxes online are using at least one of the many vendors based in Switzerland. I use our host almost exclusively but I have used one online vendor based in Switzerland. The prices from this Swiss vendor are significantly higher than other online vendors based elsewhere so I've only ordered from that vendor for a box that I could find nowhere else. I have noticed that one of the other vendors I've used (which is based in Hong Kong) ships the cigars from Switzerland or Austria. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 That Sven was onto something.... Sven is doing well. I speak to him regularly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Sven is doing well. I speak to him regularly And what about Sven's Asian buddy LFK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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