What's the price barrier that makes you baulk?

$10.00 for a everyday smoke. Depends on the occasion on how much I'll spend on a special cigar. Most I've ever spent was $25.00 for a smoke. I bought two of them and smoked them with a friend of mine before he went off to Kuwait. There are a TON of smokes to try for under $10 and I'm still in the mode of trying alot of new smokes!
 
I have no local B&M, so I buy all my cigars online when at home. I stick to a $3-$4 limit for those purchases. Now, when I go on vacation or into the city where there are B & M's, I will splurge to about $10 a stick. That is really it though. I've got too much Scotch blood in me to spend any more than that.
 
I'd have to say $15 is where I draw the line on just a spur of the moment visit to the shop. I usually stick to the $9 and under price range. :ss
 
I get most of my cigars for around $2-3, from CigarBid, JR Cigars, CI, etc. Right now, I'm sitting on a box of Camacho 1962, and 5 packs of Punch, Joya de Nicaragua, and Rocky Patel Sun Grown -- all in that $3 price range.

If I'm buying a box, I like to buy one box per year in the 4 range. Last year it was Padron 2000. This year - Fuente 858. To me, those are excellent high-end cigars.

But I'll pay $10-15 for a cigar that I really want to try a single: Padron 1926, Island Prince, Graycliff - to name a few I've had recently (well, actually all of those were gifted to me, but I did pay $10 for a RP Vintage 1990)

I don't understand paying $20 or more for a single cigar. Crazy talk.
 
I have tried the really pricey sticks, and am always disappointed. That's probably because I can get some absolutely fine stuff for $3 or $4, so when I pay $20 my standards go up. Also, I smoke for enjoyment, and when I like something I want it again and again, so twenty dollar sticks make no sense to me. And Cubans? Don't get me started. My wife buys them for me, since she goes to Europe for work. Therefore I get them for free, or at least whatever they cost she will never tell me. I just do not taste the quality that justifies all the great things said about them.

So what can I say? I guess my maximum is something under a hundred bucks a box. Whenever I have paid more, I end up feeling stupid, or abused. I have never seen the value. I like to pay between $60 to $90 per box for the good stuff, in my book at least.
 
If I can have a box of my favorites for the price of a premium 5'er, I'd have to go the thrifty route. If I've been drinking and the voices are talking to me, I will only drop over $8-$10 on a PAM. For a box, never paid over $100, so now everyone pretty much knows my smoking taste.
 
I'm more than willing to spend $90 on a single stick if its worth it. I rarely ever have the opportunity to spend that much at a time (since I usually buy fivers of cigars of that caliber) but once it hits of $100 a stick I start gulping and my mouth gets really dry. I then have to convince myself that I really need to experience this cigar to push me over the edge.
 
LasciviousXXX said:
I'm more than willing to spend $90 on a single stick if its worth it. I rarely ever have the opportunity to spend that much at a time (since I usually buy fivers of cigars of that caliber) but once it hits of $100 a stick I start gulping and my mouth gets really dry. I then have to convince myself that I really need to experience this cigar to push me over the edge.
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:r Yeah, I guess my mouth would get really dry too.........:sl
 
LasciviousXXX said:
I'm more than willing to spend $90 on a single stick if its worth it. I rarely ever have the opportunity to spend that much at a time (since I usually buy fivers of cigars of that caliber) but once it hits of $100 a stick I start gulping and my mouth gets really dry. I then have to convince myself that I really need to experience this cigar to push me over the edge.
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Don't take this the wrong way -- I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

Are you serious about $90 for a single? What cigar have you tried that you feel is worth that much? And is it the cigar that is worth that much? or just the experience to say "I smoked such-and-such cigar"? I mean, it cost a lot of money to go bungee jumping in New Zealand. Much more than the actual jump was worth -- but it was worth it just so I could say I did it, if that makes sense.

Last year, CA rated the Padron 1926 the best cigar in the world. In Memphis, that cigar sells for under $20. So, to say a cigar is worth $100, it has to be 5X better than a Padron 1926, doesn't it?

I don't know anything I can put in my mouth that is 5X better than a Padron 1926.
 
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SteveDMatt said:
I have a few cigars that cost me over $20 a stick.

Padron 26 Anniv
Casa Fuente
Limited Edition Cohiba
Siglo VI

Still haven't tried the limited edition, but have tried the others. I think they are worth the price for a special occasion smoke.
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All of these are worth the money, from my POV, EXCEPT the casa Fuente, which I find one dimensional.

You can get great smokes in the $12-16 range: Most Padron 64s, Partagas Serie D 4, Ashton VSG Spellbounds...
 
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