JR Cigars

alfredo_buscatti · 07-31-2011, 10:32 AM

I live 45 minutes away from the Burlington JR store. When I smoked the pipe exclusively, I bought many tins of Escudo there for a ridiculously low price, some $3.00 less than what it sold at the lowest e-tailer.

Now that I more or less exclusively smoke cigars, you would think that JR would have become a haven; but from what I see, they mostly carry value rather than premium cigars, and I smoke premiums. For instance, they don't carry La Flor Dominicana, Illusione, Oliva, Tatuaje or Padron. Among the premiums they do carry that might be a great deal are the JR Ultimates, but I've yet to have the courage to buy a box.

Even given their very large humidor-the whole cigar store is a humidor-I've yet to be impressed with their inventory except to buy the Mayorga Maduro there; but this last box has been lousy with plugged cigars and burn problems; and the Mayorga is a value cigar.

Also, a 15% price increase took effect about a month ago, and I find that their prices, although still a good value, have gone up on those items I price.

They sell a lot of other goods cheaply, and cheap is what you get. Casting no aspersions on the biker folk, I find that not only are their goods cheap, but with the appropriate logos of Harley Davidson plastered all over them. Outside of tobacco, I've bought one pair of slippers and a bottle of water from them over the last 10 years.

In most instances, they seem to go by a Wal-Mart philosophy: if it's not cheap, we don't sell it.

07-31-2011, 10:32 AM	#19
alfredo_buscatti Adjusting to the Life Join Date: Jan 2011 First Name: Mike Location: Piedmont, NC Posts: 277 Trading: (9)	Re: JR Cigars I live 45 minutes away from the Burlington JR store. When I smoked the pipe exclusively, I bought many tins of Escudo there for a ridiculously low price, some $3.00 less than what it sold at the lowest e-tailer. Now that I more or less exclusively smoke cigars, you would think that JR would have become a haven; but from what I see, they mostly carry value rather than premium cigars, and I smoke premiums. For instance, they don't carry La Flor Dominicana, Illusione, Oliva, Tatuaje or Padron. Among the premiums they do carry that might be a great deal are the JR Ultimates, but I've yet to have the courage to buy a box. Even given their very large humidor-the whole cigar store is a humidor-I've yet to be impressed with their inventory except to buy the Mayorga Maduro there; but this last box has been lousy with plugged cigars and burn problems; and the Mayorga is a value cigar. Also, a 15% price increase took effect about a month ago, and I find that their prices, although still a good value, have gone up on those items I price. They sell a lot of other goods cheaply, and cheap is what you get. Casting no aspersions on the biker folk, I find that not only are their goods cheap, but with the appropriate logos of Harley Davidson plastered all over them. Outside of tobacco, I've bought one pair of slippers and a bottle of water from them over the last 10 years. In most instances, they seem to go by a Wal-Mart philosophy: if it's not cheap, we don't sell it. Last edited by alfredo_buscatti; 07-31-2011 at 10:43 AM.