Budget Box Pass

[craig]

Here are my proposed trades. Looking forward to the comments.


Maduro tray:
Take: #6 Oliva O M Torp, $5.59 - Put: #47 AF Hemingway Signature $6.40 (pd)
Take: #38 La Aurora 1495 Churchill, $7.67 - Put: #48 RyJ Belicoso May 2008, $7.59

Triple corta tray:
Take: #9 JLP Conserva, $1.72 - Put #49 Nestor Reserve Maduro Torpedo, $1.86 (pd)
Take: #39 El Titan de Bronze SG Redemption Lancero, $4.20 - Put #50 AF Hemingway Short Story, $4.60 (pd)

Long Stick tray:
Take: #18 Partagas Salomone, ~$20.00 - Put #51 Casa Fuente Double Robusto, $22.00
Take: #19 Por Larranaga Montecarlo, $3.71 - Put #52 Graycliff 1666 Presidente, $3.80 (pd)

Long-Filler tray:
Take #23 Montecristo #4, $5.35 - Put #53 Macanudo Vintage 2000 I, $5.38 (pd)
Take #25 Por Larranaga Petit Corona Cab, $ 4.46 - Put #54 Gurkha Legend Anniversario, $4.58 (CI has them 12 for $55, which is less than I paid)

Those marked (pd) are ones I paid less then the going rate.

Thanks EGQ! Looks like you've scored yourself some good deals on cigars in the past!

I haven't smoked the Salomone yet, or the Conservas with the new looks-like-CT-shade wrapper leaf, but the PL's and the MC#4 are ready-to-smoke, and the PL montecarlo may have just passed its peak. Note that the MC#4 should probably be dryboxed before smoking.

FYI for all: I agreed, in advance, to the Casa Fuente Double Robusto price of $22 (which is the MSRP listed on vitolas.net). The cigar's pricing can be controversial, as the price reflects that Casa Fuente cigars are only sold at the Las Vegas location. OTOH, the Party Salomones also carries a premium due to its LCDH band. (LCDH-banded cigars seem to have higher prices in their first year or so, and this particular Salomone was from the initial release of the cigar.)

So ... what do folks say?

[badwhale]

All of the takes look close to what I calculated.
I didn't do the math on the puts yet. I'll update this post later with my full analysis

Otherwise, I think it all looks ok.

Will