The Ball and Chain Pass Offical Thread

[grand cru no 2]

I got the pass on Saturday. Ted, the Opus made it too. Here are my plays:

Takes:

Torano Signature Torpedo
Reo Torpedo

Puts:

Punch Grand Cru #2 Maduro
Camcho Coyolar Puro Torpedo
La Gloria Cubana Reserva Figurados Felicias Maduro

If there are no complaints, this goes out tomorrow.

Also, I added some Priority Mail Address Labels.

[grand cru no 2]

Heads up Cigar No Baka! DC 0301 0120 0007 3851 9026

[Drake]

CNB, what day is good for you to meet up? LMK

[cigar no baka]

OK Grand Cru, will keep my eye out for it, thanks! I will post my puts and takes since this is my very first box pass, and I don't want to piss off everyone or screw things up!!

Drake, will PM you as soon as I get it!!

[BigMacFU]

Well played Ray! Thanks for the extra address labels in there too. You guys are making this a great box pass, very quick and efficient.

First post updated.

[BigMacFU]

Uhhh, did the cigars get lost in the mail?

[basil]

Uhhh, did the cigars get lost in the mail?

hmm. Not lost - DC @ 8:17, Wednesday morning.

[grand cru no 2]

Uhhh, did the cigars get lost in the mail?

I was wondering the same thing...

[cigar no baka]

No worries, I am going to check my mail tonight and will try to use my wife's PC to access CS.com and let y''all know my puts and takes, OK?

[basil]

No worries, I am going to check my mail tonight and will try to use my wife's PC to access CS.com and let y''all know my puts and takes, OK?

Alright, look, you're making it difficult not to jump to conclusions here. In the first place, the pass was sent to a physical address - work or home I gotta assume. Have you not been to one of those places since Wednesday? Also, you've averaged 3.11 post daily since May; internet access has not been an issue for you until now.

Sorry but no/minimal word from you severely bends one of the main rules of a box pass: communicate.

If there's a good explanation, sorry for bustin' your balls, but c'mon man make some noise.

[godfather]

Alright, look, you're making it difficult not to jump to conclusions here. In the first place, the pass was sent to a physical address - work or home I gotta assume. Have you not been to one of those places since Wednesday? Also, you've averaged 3.11 post daily since May; internet access has not been an issue for you until now.

Sorry but no/minimal word from you severely bends one of the main rules of a box pass: communicate.

Good points basil. CNB, you need to better communicate with the rest of the group what's going on with you.

A) You were given a Delivery Confirmation Number and can easily trace it. Even if you don't have Internet access, you can still take the initiative to pick up the phone and find out where the package is. Even if you failed to do both, Priority mail is anywhere between 2-3 days, pretty trivial to do the math there.

B) There are several people who have not gotten the pass yet, and I'm sure they'd like to have it before Christmas (literally). It's not fair for them to wait on you if you're not going to give us any reasonable justification for waiting so long.

By all means, if you're having some kind of issue, I'm sure we'd all understand. The above post isn't telling us much except to draw our own conclusions.

Please have considerations for others, I too am not trying to harp on you and am simply bringing this to your attention. Thanks for listening.

[cigar no baka]

Alright, look, you're making it difficult not to jump to conclusions here. In the first place, the pass was sent to a physical address - work or home I gotta assume. Have you not been to one of those places since Wednesday? Also, you've averaged 3.11 post daily since May; internet access has not been an issue for you until now.

Sorry but no/minimal word from you severely bends one of the main rules of a box pass: communicate.

If there's a good explanation, sorry for bustin' your balls, but c'mon man make some noise.

Sorry if this sounds like excuses, but fFirst of all, both of our PC's are ancient POS. Mine no longer allows me to access CS.com (among many other sites, such as google and yahoo), and my wifes is hit and miss whether she can get it to boot up at all. If you'll notice that for the past 6 weeks or so I have had minimal access, so sorry about that. Plus I almost got in huge trouble at work for getting on cigar websites so although I still do I do so very sparingly.


Finally got my wife's PC to boot up. Got the box tonight and gonna go buy some more premiums tomorrow AM so I can put some comparable cigars into my puts OK?

Also gotta do some quick research on how much some of these sticks are so I don't take more than I put. Gonna research tonight, buy cigars tomorrow and get the box pass to Drake as soon as we hook up. Just PM'd Drake to see if he can meet me tomorrow.

[Diesel Grinch]

Chris I'm not going to bust you balls on the communication thing the others got you on that and having PC problems happens.

What I'm going to call you on is this.

Also gotta do some quick research on how much some of these sticks are so I don't take more than I put. Gonna research tonight, buy cigars tomorrow and get the box pass to Drake as soon as we hook up.

While getting it done you made a mistake. When joining a Pass or anything else the cigars should be in your humi. Your pulling a reganyouth. Sean even made a comment about this.

If you feel you are capable of these things then come one, come 15. To give you an idea of the types of cigars that will be in the pass to start here is a teaser (final list to be posted once participants are accounted for): Opus X, Padron 1926, La Aurora Preferido 100 Años, ISOM's, La Casa Grande Reserve (local cigar shop premium). In other words, cigars of a value of 8 dollars and up. To avoid what happened to CigarSarge via ReaganYouth, do not get in on this pass if you currently do not have any medium to high end smokes. Do this if in your humidor are medium-high end cigars already.

Main reason I didn't join in. While it's fun to play you also have to be able to pass on the fun when you don't meet the requirements.

DG

[cigar no baka]

Chris I'm not going to bust you balls on the communication thing the others got you on that and having PC problems happens.

What I'm going to call you on is this.



While getting it done you made a mistake. When joining a Pass or anything else the cigars should be in your humi. Your pulling a reganyouth. Sean even made a comment about this.



Main reason I didn't join in. While it's fun to play you also have to be able to pass on the fun when you don't met the requirements.

DG

I got it, thanks.

[cigar no baka]

OK please let me know how this looks:

Takes

Carlos Torano 2004 Torpedo
La Aurora Preferidos 1903 Ltd Reserve #1 Maduro

Puts

Carlos Torano Virtuoso Torpedo
Griffins XXI Special Edition

[BigMacFU]

Those are fine, and Baka really didn't want to piss anyone off, he's sorry, so, you're forgiven...case closed We will have a happy box pass, we will have a happy box pass I appreciate Basil, GF's, and Diesel's comments, they made valid points, but Baka definitely said, right on, so he's good in my book.

Best,
Sean

[cigar no baka]

OK I am about to call Drake and set up a meet, that will save 1-2 days mailing time. This is a learning experience for me, so I will be more prompt in the future, thanks for being understanding.

[ggiese]

I've sat back and watched this thread unfold... I've purposefully not said anything - I was most interested in how this would play out... I'm VERY pleased with the way this ended... Kudo's to all involved in the discussion!!!

[cigarsarge]

Kudos to you guys for working this out without blood letting. This board is making some good BOTLs.

[CoventryCat86]

I haven't been following the thread since my turn in the rotation which was very early. So, I see we're having a little "controversy" people made their points and no harsh words were exchanged, that's a GOOD thing!

In all fairness to CNB, IMO he didn't hold the pass up for an inordinate amount of time and his explanation was reasonable.

Everything seems to have worked out fine so PASS ON!