Looks like fakes, some are harder to tell then others but there are many fakes around Playa Del Carmen.


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Got to love them Cohibos in the glass top box, nice. HAHAHA
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I just don't get why they go to all the effort of replicating the packaging and then blow the whole thing with the ridiculous glass-top boxes. :-)

Awful kind of them to save us the trouble of having to inspect more closely, though.
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They are soooo behind the times. Counterfeiting Swisher Sweets and Black & Milds is where the money's at! LOL
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:-):-)
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Because most people don't know that glass top boxes are counterfeits.
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glass top counterfeits already being in the market for quit a long time.if i'm the counterfeiter.. by now i should realize bout this...

some people just never learn... which is good for us :-)
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Yeah, but by the same measure, those people aren't going to recognize the authenticity of the rest of the packaging, which these fakes have managed to ape pretty reasonably.

See what I mean? It seems to me like it really ought to be either an 'aim for exact replication' or a 'scribble COHEEBA on it with a crayon' kind of affair. It's this middle-ground stuff that makes no sense to me.
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Well counterfeiters prolly need to control costs even more so than Cuba. Counterfeiting an actual Cohiba box would be no cheap affair and if you don't have a connection to either sell them at retail or sell them to retailers no one is ever going to appreciate enough to buy them. Fake paper = cheap, fake wood = not so much.
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I would also imagine the average person would want to see what's inside a sealed box before they drop 500 bucks on it. The glass top allows you to see the goods without breaking all those fancy seals, those things aren't cheap:-)
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