Everytime I've seen one of those glass top boxes you showed in the pic - ANYWHERE (Golf Pro Shops, Convenience Stores, Hotel Gift Shops, etc.) I've seen nothing but overpriced cigars. Sometimes I've seen cigars I recognize at a 50-100% markup over MSRP - most other times they are cheap bundled cigars at a huge markup. Either way - many I've handled were pretty dry...

BPP made some great suggestions - I'd suggest you give them a try if you're serious about wanting to smoke decent cigars at decent prices. If you stick around for any length of time, I think you'll find most of the members here to be great people with a varying amount of good cigar knowledge. Some will be like you - fairly new to the game - others will have been smoking cigars for a LONG time (including those elusive and forbidden products of Fidel Castro).

And, on this board anyway, I really don't think you need to question what someone may say as being true or not - I assure you - if it's not true, you'll know...