JHolmes763
Drinkin' the koolaid
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The "chase" threads are annoying, just like inevitable "pete's a money whore" followons every year.
The Monster series is just another way of Pete grabbing a quick dollar to support his first growth Bordeaux habit.
What's the back story on this Jay?
More an opinion than anything else. The guy is constantly putting out limited releases regardless of quality, and has even gone so far as to rush things out where the packaging wasn't ready (Drac, and Black tubo paint problems.) These things smell of money grab to me. Couple that with the fact he buys first growth Bordeaux futures like I buy beer and I come to that conclusion. As I said it's my opinion and I avoid these releases like the plague.
So I'm assuming you're in for 2 boxes of the Wolfman to go with your collection of Franks, Dracs, Faces, and Boris'?
Look at it this way; If I wanted a box of Padron Family Reserve 45's, I could order one today. Those smokes have aged, rare, hand selected tobacco in them and are probably one of the finest smokes money can buy. You have to hunt a little, but the bottom line is I could buy them all day long. Now, Pete (Pepin, really) knows how to make a good smoke, but what reason is there to come out with something that you only make a few boxes of, once a year, other than to drive the price to the moon?Not sure why people get so up in arms about various cigar manufacturers producing LEs and HTF cigars. People want them and chase them therefore it makes good business sense. I find I chase them less now than when I first got into cigars, but I still like getting and smoking a HTF. What do you want the guy to make regular cigars and do nothing interesting or new. Not really trying to defend Pete, but don't see that there is a need to EFF the guy.
EFF that guy and his L E stuff.
It's just too much BS to go through for something you are going to light on fire. I wish he'd just make more than 666 boxes.
EFF that guy and his L E stuff.
It's just too much BS to go through for something you are going to light on fire. I wish he'd just make more than 666 boxes.
I am not getting into the rest of the conversation, but for the Wolfman, along with the 666 "Dress Boxes" of 13 cigars, Tatuaje is also releasing 1300 simple boxes of 10 (individual cellophaned) Wolf in each one, plain boxes that just say "Tatuaje Halloween 2011 No. 4" Just like he did with the Face...If you are counting, that is a total of 21,658 "Wolf" cigars released, as opposed to 8,658 cigars of the Frank and 16, 900 for the Drac...
Anyone who wanted to buy a box of Face had absolutely no problems getting them, if they knew how to use a phone (in fact, there are still some for sale at a few stores)...
~brooks
Look at it this way; If I wanted a box of Padron Family Reserve 45's, I could order one today. Those smokes have aged, rare, hand selected tobacco in them and are probably one of the finest smokes money can buy. You have to hunt a little, but the bottom line is I could buy them all day long. Now, Pete (Pepin, really) knows how to make a good smoke, but what reason is there to come out with something that you only make a few boxes of, once a year, other than to drive the price to the moon?Not sure why people get so up in arms about various cigar manufacturers producing LEs and HTF cigars. People want them and chase them therefore it makes good business sense. I find I chase them less now than when I first got into cigars, but I still like getting and smoking a HTF. What do you want the guy to make regular cigars and do nothing interesting or new. Not really trying to defend Pete, but don't see that there is a need to EFF the guy.
And folks will slurp them up as hard and fast as Pete can crank them out. Amazing.....
Like I said, I don't have any hard core Tat hate going on, but his marketing ploys seem obvious to me. Yes, I'll buy and smoke his nice brown label sticks but chase and pay for the "rare" HTF crazy stuff...?? Pass....
JMHO - B.B.S.
....this. I dig the brown labels and will try the new stuff that just came out, but chasing the "LE" sticks is just crazy.EFF that guy and his L E stuff.
It's just too much BS to go through for something you are going to light on fire. I wish he'd just make more than 666 boxes.
More power to you guys that enjoy the chase....not me.
I know for a fact that my B&M here in Denver will be getting more than one box. I can't wait to smoke this thing. Halloween is by far my fav holiday!
If anyone would like to possibly set up a buy let me know, I am in pretty good with the shop manager here. Just send a PM to my in box and when I talk to him again I will see if I can get a box and charge accordingly
Agreed x1000
tired of the hype, the 'special release' status and so on. Focus on making a smaller line of better cigars IMO. Tat's are great, but too much focus on the 'fancy LE' stuff can lead to a fall in regular quality.