Backorder from JR Cigars

[E.J.]

oldforge, have you had a bad experience with JR Cigars & backorders or are you just commenting on feel?

Originally Posted by oldforge

You probably ordered one of the sale items which sold out at the sale price.

I did.

Originally Posted by oldforge

Either JRs has no intention of carrying that product in the foreseeable future or they have no intention of offering it to you or anyone at that old sale price.

I find it hard to believe that the will just stop carrying the Fuente Don Carlos line, but I guess anything is possible. When I ask them about it, they encouraged me to back order, stating that they had a shipment scheduled, but that had not arrived. I quoted their exact comment related to that above.

They were the ones who actually did offer at that price. At the time, back order was not available online, but they made it available to me.

Originally Posted by oldforge

Who do you believe?--Them or your lying eyes?

I don't know about Don Henley and Glenn Frey, but will take the road of Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry & Neal Schon.

[ninjavanish]

JR isn't going to stop carrying Don Carlos. Ok?

There are many things that influence the shipment of cigars to anywhere in the US. Lets assume Fuente already had product manufactured and waiting and shipped said product from the DR... it generally would take at least 3 days by sea just to get to Miami. Importation of tobacco through US Customs from the Dominican Republic usually takes at least 3 days and can last up to a week... on a good, fast pace. If you are unfortunate enough to have customs decide they wish to examine your containers more thoroughly you can tack on at least another 2 weeks. And no amount of lawyers or importation brokers or pretty much anything short of an act of congress will get your product out of Customs until they are ready to let it go. So if you're having a bad day... you could potentially be looking at 3 weeks to a month between when you shipped product from the DR... to when you regain control of it in the US.

THEN you have to hash out who gets product first... then you have to ship it from your own facilities to the end destinations across the country.

Worst case scenario, a back-order like this could last over a month, possibly longer if product needs to be manufactured first. But in most cases a backorder from JR has nothing to do with them "changing" their prices. They're not going open themselves up to a bait and switch lawsuit.

[ujponds]

Originally Posted by E.J.

I don't know about Don Henley and Glenn Frey, but will take the road of Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry & Neal Schon.

Hahaha nice!