A story I would like to share....major buyers are not....

[El Presidente]

A story I would like to share....major buyers are not necessarily connoisseurs.

I did a house call to install some humidification on a new 1000 cigar cabinet a client imported from the US. He would purchase 6-10 boxes a month and has done so for many years.

Very thankfull for the help he was gracious and charming as usual.

He did however want to make a point that he hoped I wouldn't take personally. I braced myself for an issue of construction or customer service.

***"Rob...why is it that Lise and Smithy send me old cigars"

EP " What do you mean mate...aged cigars...I mean that is normally a good thing but I did not realise that you were getting aged stock given that there is none in the stock that you are buying?"

*** " No Rob...I mean this...look on the back POS MAY 06...the expiry date is past its use by"

True story :-)

....and I managed to keep a straight face

[yossie]

[Jimmy2]

You have to be kidding me?

[El Presidente]

» You have to be kidding me?

Nope :-) Had Lise and the team in stitches :-D

[Wolfe Tone]

Please send me all the cigars that expired by 1996.

[Ben]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

I can't get my head around ten boxes a month. Tis not Ugly Dave Grey is it Prez?

[El Presidente]

» Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

»

» I can't get my head around ten boxes a month. Tis not Ugly Dave Grey is it

» Prez?

Identity shall remain a closely guarded secret and you can guess that he is not a member or visitor of this board ;-)

[Guest Warren]

Did you ask him if he had any old bottles of Grange Hermitage that were past their date.

Where does he live , I want to go through his bins.:-D

[bobsled]

»

» Identity shall remain a closely guarded secret and you can guess that he

» is not a member or visitor of this board ;-)

Had he been a member, he probably would not have had the same misunderstanding........:-D :-D

That is fairly funny though, but sad to hear nonetheless...unless he was pulling YOUR leg...........:-P

[Tampa1257]

The one question that should be on everyone's mind, is when and where was he getting his 6-10 boxes of Habanos a month that were "In Date"? Or was he receiving all the boxes with in the same month they came out of Cuba and needed to smoke them all before the end of the month and thats why he goes through the 6-10 boxes so fast? At least that is what I am hoping and not the first one that he was getting that many boxes that were "Best Used By" and he had months and months of time before the expiration date?

[n2advnture]

» *** " No Rob...I mean this...look on the back POS MAY 06...the expiry date is past its use by"

ROFLMAO! Expiration date, nice!

I could see how that would be mistaken though as everything has a date on it now. Even crap like tweenkies!

~M

[Wiley]

I think he's smoking them past the date but just cheesed he keeps getting them so close to the expiration.

This really is so funny I can barely stand it!

[cvm4]

That's too funny! :-D

[smokum]

» I think he's smoking them past the date but just cheesed he keeps getting

» them so close to the expiration.

»

Poor bastard must be hauling around an oxygen tank if he is smoking them as fas as he can before they expire !!:-D

[El Presidente]

» » I think he's smoking them past the date but just cheesed he keeps

» getting

» » them so close to the expiration.

» »

»

» Poor bastard must be hauling around an oxygen tank if he is smoking them

» as fas as he can before they expire !!:-D

That was one of his points.

[brooklyn]

» Just like my students who ask,"Where is the verb?'

Peter

[Cam]

haha i love it!!!!!