stirring the pot local B&M vs big internet

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by kiokicigars

If you think about this for one sec. if you owned Gurkha...and the online retailer is busting your B@lls for a way better price so they can make a higher profit...based on the fact that they outsell the little B&M by lightyears....would you use the same tobacco that is used in the "boxes"?

Honestly, your argument makes no sense.

You suggest that a manufacturer would give lower quality product to their best customers (based on sales volume).

You also ignore the economy of scale and the fact that price often is related to scale of purchase. When my brother was the purchaser for one of the largest car rental places in Canada, he would negotiate car prices with the big three. When you're buying thousands of cars at a time, you get a much better price. You think the manufacturer sold them second quality cars because they negotiated a lower net cost?

And if seconds are really seconds, they are the same cigar as the premium but with some minor imperfection. There is no second rate stack of tobacco just for these cigars. They are regular cigars that fail some QC parameter. If they are not this, they are not seconds.