FINAL STATUS
Puts - None
Takes - None
I could not stay with the 5% put without exceeding it.
Shipped to MTovarez today and notified him.
Ed, after speaking with Brian the other day, I have to tell you, I'm more than a little disappointed that you didn't participate in this Pass....and it's been grinding on me all week. Quite honestly, you had many months to prepare for this as Brian started discussing it back in April of last year. He wrote out all the rules very clearly and even ran pricing exercises for over a month before he launched it...were you not paying attention? None of us is too old to learn, especially after you already committed to be part of the Pass and needed to understand how it works in order to make your PUTS & TAKES. All you had to do was to take a few moments to figure out what you had in your collection of cigars to see if you had a few sticks that were suitable. If you didn't, don't join the Pass. It's that simple...think it through before you jump in.
I know you reached out to me via PM for help, but this isn't complex math and I shouldn't have to do it for you. If you wanted to run a few specific P&Ts by me that may have been close, it's my pleasure to help out. When I saw that you posted them, even though they were off a bit, I thought you finally figured it out and we were on the right track. Then you posted this. No apologies, just that you couldn't do it the way it was spelled out almost 10 months ago. It's now quite obvious that you and rules just don't get along here at CP. We can all make an occasional mistake, myself included....but this one I can't let slip by and we decided to take this public as a lesson to newer members that were thinking of joining a Pass in the future. They need to understand the level of commitment that comes with joining one.
If you didn't have anything in your humidor to trade equally, why didn't you go out and buy a few cigars at a B&M so you could participate? Brian puts a lot of time & effort into putting one of these together, so the least you can do is take it seriously and follow through on your word. You've been here long enough to know how much we CP members value our commitments to one another...as is the case with the Secret Santa kids and the monitoring of trades & sales between one another. This is no different. You took up a spot that another member could have taken and that's not fair to the members Brian had to say no to.
Having had all this time to get ready and then not to participate is very frustrating to both Brian and myself. So at this point in your tenure here at CP, I think you may want to consider the fact that Cigar Passes, Secret Santa, and trades just aren't your thing because this is not the first time you've run into issues while trying to participate in one of them. Stick to commenting in the various forums and call it a day.
