Seems the market is starting to get flooded a bit too much. Sooooo many brands out there now and as mentioned they keeping coming out with new lines year after year. It's actually a turn off trying to keep straight all these new brands. I've started to tune out or ignore a lot of the newer stuff completely. (Same goes for video games and music for me......actually I think the industries have a lot in common in this regard. The video game industry has been royally pissing me off the last few years; to the point I've debated about totally ignoring it and only play my current favorites.) I don't have the time or resources to smoke or look into every new brand or line. All Pete's new stuff and the whole Viaje craze was completely ignored by me. And I refuse to play the 'chase' game. If I can't casually give my local a call (or it isn't listed on a reputable retailer's site in black in white), then that cigar isn't worth my time chasing.

Today's economic tactics seem to be to completely flood an industry to the point of ruin, purge anything about the industry that is a drain on profits or limits profits, and then make the industry all about profit.