CheapHumidors.com

[fuzzycrabs]

Anyone ever dealt with these guys before? I'm looking for a cheap price on a bigger humidor, and I came across their website, and noticed extremely cheap prices on boxes. I was thinking about ordering one, but I'd like to see if someone has done so already, and can possibly tell me how they are.

[cigarsarge]

I have heard their customer service is lacking.

[badwhale]

Their name turns me off.

Will

[fuzzycrabs]

that kind of worries me if i'm going to spend 100+ on a box of cigars.

I'll have to look into it way more before I decide to try them out or not.

[WinstonSpencer]

You might want to take a look at CheapHumidors.com:

http://www.cheaphumidors.com/

My wife bought me a 500 count from there last x'mas and I'm happy with it. It seals well, looks good and the price was decent. They did double ship the order though. So I had to send a second one back......as much as I'd like to have kept it.......LOL

Also, a fellow I know ordered a 2000 count humi from them and it arrived damaged. He shipped it back and had them reship a new one and it too arrived with some minor damage that didn't affect it's seal. He complained and they discounted the price for him. FWIW, I know they also sell damaged (with seal unaffected) humi's too if you want to save a few bucks.

CptnBlues63 sounds like a positive dude but this turns me off too.

[TommyTree]

I found a cheap price on a humidor online before. Then it got home and it held absolutely zero moisture. Now I've gone even cheaper and use a Coleman cooler, but I did learn that a humidor is one of those things you want to buy in person.

[fuzzycrabs]

Cool thanks for the feedback guys. I think I'll look at some other places for cheap prices on boxes, and I'll quite possibly invest with someone, or someplace, that has better feedback than this.

[craig]

BTW, there are grades of Chinese humidors, and Chinese products generally. For humi's, look at the tassel on the key.

Black tassel: lowest grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the inside; tray may have a cedar divider;

Gold tassel: medium grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the box; seal and tray made of cedar.

Red tassel: highest (relative) grade, typically MDF with wood veneer on the outside and cedar veneer with some cedar lining on the inside. cedar tray.

[CptnBlues63]

BTW, there are grades of Chinese humidors, and Chinese products generally. For humi's, look at the tassel on the key.

Black tassel: lowest grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the inside; tray may have a cedar divider;

Gold tassel: medium grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the box; seal and tray made of cedar.

Red tassel: highest (relative) grade, typically MDF with wood veneer on the outside and cedar veneer with some cedar lining on the inside. cedar tray.

That's good to know. I got lucky in both cases then and got a gold tassel, mid grade, humi. If I had known that before purchasing anything, I'd have likely spent the extra $$$ and got Red tassel humi's instead. I'll definitely be keeping that in mind for future reference, although I'm sure I'll move up to cooleradors once I have this 500 filled!

What's funny about this is that is the exact model that I was planning on getting. It's either that one or I'm going to be looking into a glass top one, that's around a 100 to 200 count humidor.

LOL, hey, it's a decent humi and as per Craig's post above, it's a mid grade humidor. All I know is it seals well and holds hit's RH decently. The 500 count my ol'lady got me last x'mas has glass on the top and the front. I like being able to look in and see the cigars without opening it, but I still like to pop it open and enjoy the beautiful aroma of spanish cedar and cigars from time to time too.

[fuzzycrabs]

That's good to know. I got lucky in both cases then and got a gold tassel, mid grade, humi. If I had known that before purchasing anything, I'd have likely spent the extra $$$ and got Red tassel humi's instead. I'll definitely be keeping that in mind for future reference, although I'm sure I'll move up to cooleradors once I have this 500 filled!



LOL, hey, it's a decent humi and as per Craig's post above, it's a mid grade humidor. All I know is it seals well and holds hit's RH decently. The 500 count my ol'lady got me last x'mas has glass on the top and the front. I like being able to look in and see the cigars without opening it, but I still like to pop it open and enjoy the beautiful aroma of spanish cedar and cigars from time to time too.

After looking into things a little more, I think a glass top humidor will be more of what I need. I tend to take a peek at what I have more than I need to, And I like the extra room this one provides.

[Paddy]

BTW, there are grades of Chinese humidors, and Chinese products generally. For humi's, look at the tassel on the key.

Black tassel: lowest grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the inside; tray may have a cedar divider;

Gold tassel: medium grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the box; seal and tray made of cedar.

Red tassel: highest (relative) grade, typically MDF with wood veneer on the outside and cedar veneer with some cedar lining on the inside. cedar tray.

Are you just making this shit up?

[ashauler]

Are you just making this shit up?

LMFAO!!

[FatSmoker]

I ordered both of my humidors from these guys and have no complaints whatsoever. Fast shipping time, great prices, and decent humidors. I feel they provide a good product for the price.

BTW, there are grades of Chinese humidors, and Chinese products generally. For humi's, look at the tassel on the key.

Black tassel: lowest grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the inside; tray may have a cedar divider;

Gold tassel: medium grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the box; seal and tray made of cedar.

Red tassel: highest (relative) grade, typically MDF with wood veneer on the outside and cedar veneer with some cedar lining on the inside. cedar tray.

I may be taking the bait here, but what does it mean if the tassel is yellow?

[CptnBlues63]

I ordered both of my humidors from these guys and have no complaints whatsoever. Fast shipping time, great prices, and decent humidors. I feel they provide a good product for the price.



I may be taking the bait here, but what does it mean if the tassel is yellow?

It means you need to get tested for color blindness because it's gold, not yellow.

J/K........lol............it's supposed to be gold but I agree, mine does look more yellow than gold. As long as it's not black it's all good right!

[FatSmoker]

It means you need to get tested for color blindness because it's gold, not yellow.

J/K........lol............it's supposed to be gold but I agree, mine does look more yellow than gold. As long as it's not black it's all good right!

Wow, now I feel even stupider than I usually do

Mine is bright yellow, I would have never even considered to pass it off as gold

[CptnBlues63]

Wow, now I feel even stupider than I usually do

Mine is bright yellow, I would have never even considered to pass it off as gold

You shouldn't. One man's gold is another's yellow after all.

I just know my humi's were made in China and was getting the "gold" part from Craig's post in this thread:

BTW, there are grades of Chinese humidors, and Chinese products generally. For humi's, look at the tassel on the key.

Black tassel: lowest grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the inside; tray may have a cedar divider;

Gold tassel: medium grade, typically painted MDF with cedar veneer on the box; seal and tray made of cedar.

Red tassel: highest (relative) grade, typically MDF with wood veneer on the outside and cedar veneer with some cedar lining on the inside. cedar tray.

To be honest, the tassel on mine looks yellow to me too..........lol

[webmost]

Couple months ago I bought a 100 count humidor from these guys. Customer service was excellent. Product was excellent. Price was unbeatable.

I bought a box with an inlaid leaf in the lid from their scratch and dent section. There were neither scratches nor dents. There are two metal plates that are supposed to be stuck to the cedar lid. The humidifier has magnets on the back that hang onto those plates. Likewise one plate for the hygrometer. The two-sided tape that was supposed to stick those three plates to the lid had no stickum. That's the only problem. Solved with some gorilla glue.

Otherwise, the box is airtight, beautiful, and holds an honest hundred.

Some people believe that more money = more better. Nothing wrong with cheap. Leaves more money for buying cigars.

[Steve2150]

Anyone ever dealt with these guys before? I'm looking for a cheap price on a bigger humidor, and I came across their website, and noticed extremely cheap prices on boxes. I was thinking about ordering one, but I'd like to see if someone has done so already, and can possibly tell me how they are.

I ordered at different times 4 from them in less then a year. Okay for the price but the supplied
rectangular foam humidifiers are horrible, the foam tape falls off holding the magnet and all of the
humidifiers rusted causing brown spots on the foam and the mesh is supposedly stainless steel. On
1 of mine less then 3 months old that has 2 of the humidifiers I had to replace the humidifier 3 times
due to mold forming on it and I do use 50/50 solution, as one of the posters stated customer service
is lacking. They want me to ship to them at my expense whereas they will watch it for 2 weeks to
see if they duplicate the mold, that is there useless 1 year warranty. So my advice look elsewhere.

[CptnBlues63]

I ordered at different times 4 from them in less then a year. Okay for the price but the supplied
rectangular foam humidifiers are horrible, the foam tape falls off holding the magnet and all of the
humidifiers rusted causing brown spots on the foam and the mesh is supposedly stainless steel. On
1 of mine less then 3 months old that has 2 of the humidifiers I had to replace the humidifier 3 times
due to mold forming on it and I do use 50/50 solution, as one of the posters stated customer service
is lacking. They want me to ship to them at my expense whereas they will watch it for 2 weeks to
see if they duplicate the mold, that is there useless 1 year warranty. So my advice look elsewhere.

Yeah, I read your other thread about this issue you're having with your humidor and I figure I'll comment here as compared to there. For anybody else reading this thread who hasn't read his other one, check it out:

http://www.cigarsmokers.com/threads/15348-Humidor-Help

Just FYI......my first humi, a 100 count that I bought from my favorite B&M here in western Canadas is also manufactured by the same Chinese company that manufactures the ones cheaphumidors sells. In fact, here is the exact humidor I bought at my B&M:

http://www.cheaphumidors.com/p_mediu...-OLDWORLD.html

When my wife bought me the 500 count from cheaphumidors a couple years back, I gave it to my good friend and coworker who is still using it today. It's worth noting he's using the original humidifier in it.

I have another friend and fellow cigar smoker who bought a humidor that's also made by the same Chinese company. He bought his from an online dealer out of the US that isn't cheaphumidors. He too is using the original humidifer.

Oddly enough, neither of them is having anything like the trouble you're having.

When my wife bought me the 500 count for X'mas a couple years back, cheaphumidors double shipped it and I ended up with two. I called them, they called the courier who picked up the double the very next day. That was the only problem I had with them.

Now, before I go any further here I just want to say for the record that I'm not now, nor ever have been, an employee of cheaphumidors. I'm not a shill for them either. I'm simply a customer who's formed an opinion after a couple of successful transactions. I realize they (cheaphumidors) do not manufacture the humidors they sell and are not even the importers of said humidors.

I wonder, other than humidity issues, was there any problem with the humidor? Was it not built correctly? Does it not seal properly? Is it banged up, marred, marked or damaged in any way? If the humidor was physically fine and seals properly and isn't marked and the ONLY problem you're having is mold inside, then I ask you, what exactly is it you expect of them with regard to warranty?

If the unit is fine physically, there's not a lot they can do other than take it and watch it for a couple weeks themselves as they've offered to do.

After reading your thread on your humidor issues I've formed an opinion of you. I work in the IT industry and have for the better part of 20 years. There's an acronym we use frequently that I believe applies in this case and it is: PEBKAC

PEBKAC = problem exists between keyboard and chair.

While my own expieriences with cheaphumidors have been good, that's not to say others haven't had problems. I'm not trying to say that. But in light of your other thread and your responses to the other members of this forum who've responded to you and tried to help and offer advice, I suspect I'm bang on the money in this case. It's more likely that YOU are the problem and not the humidor, humidifier, or cheaphumidors.

The last thing I'm going to say is, if you've been relying on the analog hygrometer that came with humi then you've probably got your RH way too high because those are notoriously useless hygrometers and using too much solution and having your RH too high can cause mold and will keep the mold in there until you follow the good advice you've been given in that other thread.

[Steve2150]

The problem is not with me as you insinuate. It only happens in that one humidor, I have rotated hygrometers and they are all under 70 and only that one gets mold on the humidifier. I am not knocking the company so if you did work for them by your tone they have tried to be helpful, they sent a jars of beads but yes they wont rust but if there is mold hidden in the humidor then they will get on my cigars. I did not soak the humidifiers just some drops of 50/50 as they state, gonna wait for the mold to grow back on the 4 th humidifier. Just to let you know it was not me causing it, came here for helpful advice and get a knocking from an IT person thst since did not happen to him it did not happen.