My Stogies No Longer

I got beat up when I was a new member. I was trying to sell a Partagas 150 Humidor and I was questioned. I thought I was getting judged/harassed whatever you like to call it. At first I was pretty upset about it but after finding out what has happened in the past I was glad it happened. Some members that I knew personally spoke up to help me out and to vouch for me. But I was very happy to see that gorillas watch out for each other and raise question to a subject that may be questionable.
 
TanZ2005:

That sucks. I had a live-in nanny that was robbing me blind. I had suspicions, so I went through the car that I was letting her drive for free and found some of my wife's jewelry, towels, bottles of liquor, and unopened gifts for the kids. (Luckily she knew nothing about cigars). I showed no mercy with the legal system and now another family won't have to worry about getting ripped off by her.

I honestly would check out the rest of my stuff & make sure this con man didn't walk away with anything else. If he has the balls to rip you off of $50 dollars of smokes, he has the balls to rip you off of your valuables. Then I'd want my stuff back.

As the CS Theme Song goes

Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me


Show him no mercy.
 
pds said:
Thanks for clearing it up, that's all people were asking. Surely you can understand, as unfortunately many users generosity has been taken advantage of on numerous occasions.

I'm sure you will find many good cigars in your future, and I would suggest keeping your treasured possessions locked up. :)

Enjoy the forum.
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It couldn't be said better. I didn't have an opinion or "judgement" as I said earlier because I wanted to see what you would have to say as we hadn't heard from you yet. I'm sorry if it seemed harsh. We are just very protective of our own and don't like to see very generous people being taken advantage of. Sorry for your loss, hope things work out. Welcome to the forum, again lol!

David
 
Apologies m8.
I think you can see by what many of the other gorillas have said--
The community has been taken advantage of before, and when the radar starts 'dinging' its usually for good reason -- it wasnt just one person who seemed suspicious. Being new myself, i luckily had a smooth transition, but dont let one of your first posts here deter you from trying to participate in the jungle!
Best of luck. :tu
 
rwhit37 said:
4 post in 2 years. First 2 post were within 36 minutes of each other. Second set of post a year and 10 months later were within 27 minutes of each other. Zero (0) trader feedback.

And this post makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever:
http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?p=404393#post404393

Also claimed to have 20 cigars, 2 of great importance.
1-Opus X 2005
10-Cohiba Red Dot Toro Tubes
1-Triangular
2-Chateau Real Lord Tennyson
2-Gurkha Avenger G5- Torpedo
2-Gurkha Black Dragon Grand Especial
1-Ashton ESG 20yr

I know my Gorilla math sucks but thats only 19.

Where was your RC collection at? I'm assuming you are referring to the Tatuaje RCs.

As for the guy that took your belongings. Find him. He stayed with you and you know who he is. File a police report and get the search going. You know who the culprit is. But are you sure it was him? Maybe someone took it if you had a lot of company over. Opened the window, put it outside and picked it up when they left.There are a lot of variables here you need to think about unless someone saw him take it. Maybe some more details will help to clarify this situation.

I apologize in advance if I have offended anyone or you TanZ2005. That is not my goal just showing the facts.

This is just my :2.
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Hey Ricky did you do something like that before? Your Idea about putting it out and getting it after you leave, is pretty slick. You sure you didnt take this guys smokes. :r

Just picking on you bro.
 
SMcGregor said:
I honestly tought this place had some class, and the decenty to have trust in one another..

It by far more sad to see Elder Gorilla's point a finger then this thread being a fising thread or not.. Frankly I would love this being a fishing thread then what I have seen out of many people I respect around here...

Take my comments as they are because they are mine only.

Shawn
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I guess I have to join some of the elder gorillas in being finger pointing members of a classless place.

Your accusing us of being judgmental and then what are you doing with your comments? Judging the whole place based on the comments of a few in one thread? Your calling the "place" without class based on what you saw in this thread, yet you are asking us not to judge based on what we have experienced in the past.

While I don't agree with your "judgement" I think it needs to be pointed out that you are doing exactly as you call those classless for doing.
 
pds said:
I guess you can call it judging, but unfortunately we have been burned here before. If we are honest, you can't say that a user who has been around awhile and their first posts are about this type of theft should not bring some sort of suspicion?

Call it judging, call is suspicious, or call it having the guts to type what many are thinking.

I draw the line when someone is overtly disrespectful when bringing up their suspicions.

I am sure the original poster is a big boy, and can handle it.

Now he simply needs to execute on much of the good advice he has gotten in this thread.
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I guess I just read the story as is. I didn't see him asking for anybody to send him cigars, I see more of that by members in the review section. The first person who said something may have been gutsy but it is very easy to jump on a bandwagon about it. That is the bad thing with these threads is that so many people jump on him about something that isn't necessarily true. I don't know the guy or the situation, so I can't comment on him. This place is supposed to be a friendly community and when people start accusing, I don't see the friendliness anymore, sorry that is just the way I see it.
 
kheffelf said:
I This place is supposed to be a friendly community and when people start accusing.
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Accusing?
The people that have been duped throw the red flag so those that haven't will be cautious.

It's a public discussion board on the internet, caution precedes tact.
 
TanZ2005 said:
Well as I have said in another post not sure if you will read it I was looking for some information on an Ashtray I think when I signed up back in O6 and busy working.
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James,

I did go back and read your posts, because I actually thought I remembered you, and I did. Yes, I was baffled that you hadn't been around for so long and then you came back when this incident happened. Strange either way and I was curious as to why you hadn't been around. It seems you understand why we were a bit weary of the post and taking it well.

As far as I'm concerned stay around and have fun. There is a pipe forum now, so plenty to do.


Ken


P.S. You have a family, never let anyone in your home that you do not have absolute trust in. To hell with being nice when your families safety is involved.
 
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kheffelf said:
I guess I just read the story as is. I didn't see him asking for anybody to send him cigars, I see more of that by members in the review section. The first person who said something may have been gutsy but it is very easy to jump on a bandwagon about it. That is the bad thing with these threads is that so many people jump on him about something that isn't necessarily true. I don't know the guy or the situation, so I can't comment on him. This place is supposed to be a friendly community and when people start accusing, I don't see the friendliness anymore, sorry that is just the way I see it.
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I agree it is wrong to accuse the thread starter of anything. My statements all along in this thread have been that there is nothing wrong with being suspicious...or cautious as Poker put it.

Many of us have seen this numerous times. In my experience running the site it has happened at least 15 times. As I stated earlier, accusing and being disrespectful is in bad form. Stating your concerns, and explaining why you have them may be blunt and uncomfortable, but if done respectfully, in this case I don;t have a problem with it.

The thread starter could be Mother Theresa for all I know, but that doesn't change the fact that circumstances matched numerous ones in the past where members got ripped off.

We mods and the earlier accused elder members are unfortunately damned if we do and damned if we don't. We get PM's accusing us of not doing our jobs if we don't say anything, and then called classless when we do.

I guess it comes with the job.
 
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