Free Comacho Cigar Offer
 

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Done and done. I like free! :)

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Ummmm, Today is October 4th. :sh

No problem if you just want to give away information but the giveaway is over. :sl

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Here's hoping they forgot! :rl

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Did it back in August and never heard anything except the confirmation email.

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Yea I think its bogus... if you look at the other thread, a lot of other members signed up and I am pretty sure to this day NOT ONE SINGLE person has received a cigar...

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The ToE closed another thread about this giveaway earlier today because the O.P. pointed out that all that was going on was a bunch of bellyaching that nobody got their free $5 cigar.

Here we go again. :rolleyes:

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Didn't mean for my earlier comment to be "bellyaching" just think if it was a legit promo at least 1 of the members would have received a stick by now...

Icehog- this may be very noob of me... but aren't you one of the Eleven? and what does O.P. stand for?

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Tom (icehog3) is one of the eleven.
OP is Original Poster.

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Wasn't just pointing to one person, Rob, there were LOTS of people bellyaching in the last thread. How many people need to say "I never heard back" before everyone realizes that they ain't comin'? ;) :lr

O.P. = Original Poster = the guy who started the thread

And, si, I am one of the ToE.

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Thanks for clearing that up for me Peter, my noob brain learned something new today... :tu

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Well then, while I have your eyes let me say thanks to you and Peter for making this forum what it is today... I can honestly say every single person I have communicated with on here has been "aggressively" nice and hospitable... You guys sure know how to pick em! :tu

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Wish we could take credit for all the great people who have come here, Rob, but we cannot. :)

We can take credit for a couple who haven't stayed though. :lr

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Well in that case you sure keep the garden free of weeds... :D

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I like that.

My new sig line.

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Much more accurate. :D

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OOOOHHHH! OOOOHHH! Me! Me! Me!

About 35 years ago I got a Happy Meal and it didn't have a free toy in it!

Can I post and kvetch about that here too?

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I'm Humbly Honored... :)

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Unless of course that everyone here who signed up based on that thread signed up after the cigars had all been given away already...

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Silly Adam, using logic is not allowed! :sl

If I didnt received a free cigar is must be bogus! :su

I'm pretty sure I saw the lady pulling the lotto balls palm the one with my number! :tf

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Yes Yes very true... I did not think of that alternative... buy then why would they not down the page and stop the confirmation emails?

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To get e-mail addresses to spam with e-mail, or maybe even sell to other companies? Don't know if this is what they do, but I know some do.

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Ah yes... the seedy underbelly of the internet... spam e-mail.... well I gave my address and as far as I can tell no spam mail.... unless my junk sweeper is just that good...

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Hopefully they don't sell it to Thompson's. ;)

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Besides the obvious fact that in the terms and rules of the promotion it states that by agreeing to the promotion terms, you are submitting your information for their marketing purposes and cutting this off early, from a marketing data and metrics collection standpoint, is foolish.

The submission collection process is very fast and easily automated. Simply toss up a form and have people enter data.

Unfortunately, the verification of this entered data does not happen as quickly. Addresses need to be verified, duplicate addresses need to be matched and discarded, ages need to be searched and verified, illegitimate email addresses need to be tossed, people setting up multiple accounts need to be disqualified, etc.

All of this prevents the automation of an automatic cutoff at the X-many entry mark.

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That, or they're lazy.




:lr

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That, sir, is a distinct possibility.

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No please don't do that here.

The reason's for this thread were clearly spelled out and it is my hope that a few of our aprox. 7,000 members would have received a cigar. That's another reason for this thread.

My thinking, and again Hope, is since sign up just ended...there might be some chance for the cigar giveaway to actually happen.

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I stand schooled on the finer points of marketing...

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Don't you think one of them would have posted that in the other thread that was up for several months?

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So Icehog.... you have a distaste for Thompson's as well... Do you dislike them for just their marketing saturation? or for the sometimes horrible quality of their sticks?

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Why? At least I would have a legitimate gripe, since someone actually paid for the Happy Meal that was supposed to include a toy as clearly stated on the box. It's not like I sat around entering my name, email and address into a browser expecting to get something for nothing.

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Their marketing is my issue, Rob. Most of their house blend cigars are garbage, but they sell some accessories and decent cigars too.

But when someone unsuspectingly gives their phone number while making an order, and then is deluged with phone calls despite repeated requests to stop, they lose any good will I might have had for them. Avoid them like a cancer. :2

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yea I guess that is valid... but for noobs like myself a free cigar means a lot... especially when there are no B & M's nearby and the one closest to you doesn't carry them... Sure I could go on the devil site and order up a 5 pack or what-have-you but thats a bit much to pay for a stick you haven't actually tried yet...

Plus I'm cheap... :) no need to beat on the bargain seekers... lol

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Not beating on the bargain seekers. Beating on those who continue to beat a dead horse....for a second thread's worth. ;)

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Both threads about the Free Comacho cigar were opened in the later part of Aug (22nd,24th). Just a shy over a month; not a huge amount of time as threads go. and with the registration just ending....well anyways.

Because I would prefer if you wish to be kbliching about something that happened 35 years ago that you open your own thread and do it there.Thanks
Also I value my email address and don't think it is nothing.
Does it really bother you T.G. that I opened this thread? I mean you didn't want the other one open but you have posted quite a lot in this one.

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Very true... I actually didn't mind Thompson's till 3 things happened...

I was in love with the Alec Bradley Sampler they had there... got it cheap on an auction once and it was great... so great I bought another outright off the site... (much more expensive) when I received my second sampler, the cigars had a different taste, one (the one I looked to the most) was plugged and another had burn issues...

That was the first strike... the second was a bit more personal for me...

I LOVE Rocky Patel's- PATEL BROS cigars... After looking around I found that only Thompson's had them, I went so far as to email Rocky's company asking if I could find them anywhere else by the box... they told me they sold the line out to thompsons and that the sites that still had boxes were of older stock... That just sort of rubbed me the wrong way because Thompson's is by far I find the most expensive site around....

The final strike was when I was offered a free sampler from Thompson's, after talking to the guy I asked him to send any sampler that had a Patel Bros in it... When I did finally receive the sampler (slow standard shipping) it did even have a single stick from Rocky Patel - much less the Patel Bros I was looking for...

I ordered another sampler or 2 till I was offered another free sampler, I told the thompsons agent about what had happened with the first one, he assured me they had a Rocky -only sampler and that it would be sent my way... It never came...

So from then on I vowed never to give Thompsons another cent... and after discovery of Famous-smoke and the devil site I never have...

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I'd explain it to you, but you wouldn't get it.

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Well feel that tension....

In other news....

http://honjii.files.wordpress.com/20...pg?w=550&h=392

you just got mooned.... lol

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BTW...No disrespect intended T.G. /Savor the stick... Just thought a laugh would be good for everyone...

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hey, Thunder Gerbil! When are you going to stop whining and "kvetching"?..

:r

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Thunder Gerbil??

Gosh Dangit, Adam stole my band name idea.

Anybody get their free cigar today?

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:po

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And on that note, look for thread closings in the near future. :lr

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Coincidentally I just got a second email from Davidoff a few moments ago. (They didn't have my email before the Camacho offer.) So I opened it with anticipation, expecting some news on the free Camacho, but all it was is an offer of $10 off a 5-pack at my local B&M. Maybe this is the consolation prize for signing up for the Camacho. :confused:

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Or the beginning of the spamming. :lr

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:hy ^^^^^^ he's going to be here all week!:rd

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Actually Tom, I think you undersell the wonders of the ToE. I've gone to other cigar fora, I even tried that "big" new competitor that seems to attract many. However, the place IMHO is a cesspool based of the attitudes of many, and the administrators' failure to create an environment of good taste.

The Asylum is, and always will be my sole BoTL forum.

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Always nice to hear stuff like that, Tony.

A wise ToE from Ohio once said, "We provide the canvas, and you all paint the picture". :)

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Well, when you're right, you're right! Just got another email from Davidoff, same offer, but now its has a "REVISED AND UPDATED LIST OF PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS" and all of the local B&Ms except one has been removed. I guess they had enough of this BS from Davidoff as well!