Quote Originally Posted by Chè View Post
This is in Germany, no? You never know, but 1 thing to recognize is business would probably suffer pretty good if they were peddling fakes somewhere people don't have to travel far or look hard to acquire authentic merchandise. Secondly, I think regulators & purveyors of legit merchandise would be all over their you know whats. Think about it. Germany isn't exactly the every man for himself Caribbean or Mexico.

My guess, (assuming the location is where I imagine it, and based on the limited info the picture provides) these are probably legit. I'd further bet CptnBlues63 was correct, in that their customer base, or at least the purpose of that particular display is to serve SINGLES. If that much is logical - opening all the boxes would also be logical. If it's not for letting the cigars breath out of the God-awful cardboard & humidification purposes, it also gives customers a variety of choices, perhaps multiple factories or an opportunity to select to personal aesthetic preference.

I don't know about you guys but they'd have to only have (1) box there for me to NOT wonder if the additional "unopened" boxes had better looking / smelling / more preferable factory codes / dates etc. and not want to rip em' all open myself to inspect & speculate.

jmho
I never thought about that aspect.

After reading Eville's response and seeing that they had all the boxes open I thought, "that IS odd" I know my favorite B&M, he only opens them as he needs them.

As I said, I later bought a 3 pack and immediately took the cigars out of the cardboard and put them in the humi because the box itself kind of felt damp to me and I thought that couldn't be good for the cigars. So as soon as I read the above I thought, "Oh yeah, that makes sense."


On the plus side, all 3 cigars in that box had plume on them. In fact, that's how I learned what it was. I got home, opened the box, saw white spots on the cigars and phone the B&M and said, "Hey, I think there's mold growing on my cigars!" LOL

Needless to say when the owner, Chris, explained, I was rather relieved and pleased......lol