50,000 Cuban cigars seized in Rome!

hotreds · 04-26-2012, 10:34 AM

http://cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/16469

kelmac07 · 04-26-2012, 10:35 AM

Ouch!!

Ogre · 04-26-2012, 10:50 AM

Damn, that sucks!!!!

icehog3 · 04-26-2012, 10:54 AM

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In a statement, Habanos described the seized cigars as counterfeit

If that is indeed the case, then this might be a good thing, no?

BeerAdvocate · 04-26-2012, 11:20 AM

There goes my order of glass top Cohibas that I ordered online

GTsetGO · 04-26-2012, 11:23 AM

i love the comments.

"there's no way 63 boxes of cigars is worth 1 million euro"

people can't read.

pektel · 04-26-2012, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by BeerAdvocate

There goes my order of glass top Cohibas that I ordered online

lol. I saw a bunch of them for sale in Playa del Carmen last week. I woulda grabbed one for you!

IBQTEE1 · 04-26-2012, 11:35 AM

Wow.

maninblack · 04-26-2012, 11:48 AM

Holy smokes!

HollywoodQue · 04-26-2012, 12:09 PM

Doesn't seem like someone would goes through so much trouble for "counterfeit " cigars. Maybe the real distributors of the cuban's didn't want anyone to know that they were in fact "real" cubans.

bobarian · 04-26-2012, 12:23 PM

Meh

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macsauce13 · 04-26-2012, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by GTsetGO

i love the comments.

"there's no way 63 boxes of cigars is worth 1 million euro"

people can't read.

There are a ton of comments that show a LOT of ignorance. Holy crap those comments were disappointing.

hotreds · 04-26-2012, 12:43 PM

How stoopid to call them "eggs!"

04-26-2012, 12:49 PM

CigarNut · 04-26-2012, 12:52 PM

If they are real I wonder where they were headed... You'd think SA Habano would be a little more careful about the destination for an order that size...

T.G · 04-26-2012, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by hotreds

How stoopid to call them "eggs!"

Calling them "Beetles" would have been too obvious.

jluck · 04-26-2012, 02:20 PM

Maybe all this to avoid taxes?

markem · 04-26-2012, 02:23 PM

My understanding is that they were headed to the Middle East and that SA Habanos cooperated with the seizure, since the cigars were fakes. This info is worth exactly what you paid for it.

pektel · 04-26-2012, 02:27 PM

grey market = counterfeit?

markem · 04-26-2012, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by pektel

grey market = counterfeit?

maybe, maybe not. Often times, grey market is a true CC that's being sold outside of its specified region by a shop that has a different regional CC provider. However, caveat emptor

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