Quote Originally Posted by Quint View Post
I love going into my local shop and talking cigars getting suggestions trying them out and then going back to share review. Unfortunately there are only a couple of small shops in my area and none have smoking rooms so I cant sit around and have a smoke and talk stogie trash. Sadly though there is quite a mark up on some of my favorites. Take Ashton VSG Sorcerer local shop sells it for $14.95 I can get it online for $9.60 thats over 60% mark up. I can't justify buying from the shop in this case. There are others that are around 20% or so that occasionally I'll buy from the shop. I'm not quite sure why there is so much mark-up fluxuation from cigar to cigar but it sure makes it hard to support local shops with that type of mark-up. But I do my best...........
He's way over pricing them. You have a 15% Cigar tax in Mass. So at most he should be selling that Sorcerer for 11.95. Here in Florida with No Tax they sell for $10.40. Some B&M's will try to get top dollar for VSG, Opus, and Anjeio. Some shops will also vary their prices depending on whether they purchase the product direct or from a wholesaler (which they shouldn't do), or hike their prices due to their location (which they shouldn't do either).