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View Poll Results: Do you continue purchasing during hot weather?
Yes....no big worries. 97 83.62%
No....I only buy at B&Ms then. 8 6.90%
No...I don't buy any until cooler weather prevails. 11 9.48%
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Old 05-17-2009, 06:39 PM   #1
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Default Stop buying in the summer?

Last summer was my first summer of mail order purchasing and received a box with some beetles in it. After that experience, I cut back on purchasing until the cooler weather. I think I'm going to place my last order before the hot weather gets here and then take a break until fall (think I can do it?). Who else stops purchasing in the summer?
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Old 05-17-2009, 06:40 PM   #2
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I probably wont be for a while, but for different reasons.
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Old 05-17-2009, 06:58 PM   #3
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

No, I will continue to buy, both online and in B&Ms. There are a few (very few) NCs that I am looking forward to purchasing. I do quarantine my online purchases, but I don't worry too much since everything gets put into my vinotemps at a nice 63 degree setting. BTW, if your purchases are coming from trusted sources, why worry?
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Old 05-17-2009, 07:24 PM   #4
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I don't worry very much, mainly because I follow the "SilverFox" method of freezing anything that comes in before they get put into a humidor. That way, I can take advantage of any sales that come along.


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Old 05-17-2009, 08:07 PM   #5
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I only buy from B&Ms, never online. If I can not put my hands on what I am buying, then forget it.
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Old 05-17-2009, 08:44 PM   #6
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I'm debating this as well. Nothing like sitting in a black metal mailbox in 100 degree weather for several hours to put a hurtin' on a stogie!
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Old 05-17-2009, 08:48 PM   #7
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I stop mail orders during the summer, but usually go
to b&m's for a handful of special sticks for vacation,
my b-day, holidays, etc.

Buying slows but doesn't stop, over the summer.

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Old 05-17-2009, 08:51 PM   #8
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I stock up during the cooler months and hold off on receiving any mail orders shipments during the summer months. I rarely go into B&Ms these days, but if I were to buy, it would be done locally.
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Old 05-17-2009, 10:33 PM   #9
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I seriously don't believe a couple of days of elevated temps is going to bring on a beetle problem. No stopping here.
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Old 05-17-2009, 11:52 PM   #10
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I'm never in the US during the summer, so I generally stop my purchases around now. But ya, considering how warm the actual Post Office warehouse can be, plus the 3-5 day delivery time (not including Sunday), I'd be a bit on edge about buying online during the summer.
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Old 05-18-2009, 10:19 AM   #11
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

If I stopped for 'summer' temps I would only have three months a year to be able to buy anything. So I don't stop. I do switch to using my PO Box in the really hot summer months, over 100 average, for deliveries.

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Old 05-18-2009, 10:22 AM   #12
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I'm going to use this as a good excuse not to buy this summer.
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Old 05-18-2009, 10:36 AM   #13
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Time of year doesn't dictate when I buy it is funding that does
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Old 05-18-2009, 10:38 AM   #14
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I cut back on purchases big time in the summer.
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Old 05-18-2009, 11:11 AM   #15
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I usually plan on not buying anything every summer. Hopefully I do better this year on keeping that promise.
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Old 05-18-2009, 07:21 PM   #16
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

In the warmer months my online purchases slow way down. I usually will only buy something online in the summer months if I come across a smoking deal and I usually keep a separate humi to keep things out of the cabinet for at least 2 months to keep things quarantined.(I don't freeze although the idea is growing on me) I will buy from the B&M in the summer months the same as I would any other time of the year but again those purchases will go into quarantine since you don't always know when they may have had boxes shipped to them. I can promise that my smoking increases in the summer months though!
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Old 05-18-2009, 07:58 PM   #17
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I usually slow to a crawl over the summer months due to the drop in mules heading to the ISOM....
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Old 05-18-2009, 08:47 PM   #18
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Default Re: Stop buying in the summer?

I don't worry to much about it really. I order when I have extra cash. spring summer or fall.
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Old 05-19-2009, 12:54 AM   #19
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Money > Space > Weather
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Old 05-19-2009, 01:45 AM   #20
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I buy... I try not to but, that's too many months to go without buying
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