I emailed famous to ask.

".......I ordered a five pack and five singles. The fiver had a dated slip of paper attached to its bag and each of the singles had one glued to its wrapper or tube or in the baggie with it......Are these the dates when the cigars arrived at Famous and entered your humidors?...."

and they got back to me this morning.

"Hi Tim,
First of all, thank you for joining our Famous Smoke Shop family.
And yes, you are correct. We date all product when it is received into the warehouse......."

This is a great idea IMO. If other vendors don't do it they should.
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I received a package last night from famous and purposely looked for this as well. All of the sticks I got from them had it on there.
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ok, so I have read the disputes about whether or not to leave the cello on, and I am still kind of confused. My confusion lies in whether or not to leave cello on a box purchase as opposed to singles. If you buy a box, do you leave the cello on each cigar or remove them? It would seem to me, that with the box and cello protecting the cigars, there is very little airflow or room for humidity to get to the cigars. Seems that it would take much longer for the intended humidity to be achieved? So what do you guys do when you buy a box? I'm sure I am going to get different responses, so if you could tell me your reasoning, hopefully I can make a decision on what to do based on that. Hope this makes sense, and sorry for the long post?
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I can sum up the answers you're going to get because that was a question I had to begin with and read ALL OVER about it... "Its just your preference" :-)
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So I have a humidor thats been seasoning for 3 days and its been at a constant 74% for 2 days... does that mean its seasoned and ready to be used?
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Leave it on, take it off... just a preference. Cigars are tough, a lot tougher than we give credit for. I leave my on, because... I am just too lazy to take all the cello off one by one AND it does not make a difference imo.
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lol. If I could sum up everything, and I mean everything, there is to cigar smoking in one sentence, it would be..."Its your preference":-)
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Speaking of tough.. you get my NST package :-)
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Yes. It's a little high though....I'd take the water out, let the humidity drop to 65%, fill with cigars and beads, and shut the lid. Then you're all set :-)
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I would put the cigars in right away as they will absorb some of the excess humidity. If you wait until it drops to 65% then when you put the cigars in, it will likely drop well below 60%.
:-)
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Not really a noob questions but I've been away from the forums and the industry for a couple years now....what have I missed that I need to try?
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That all depends on what you like and who you ask. The best advice I can give you is to read the threads here on the forum - Reviews, Cigar Discussion, etc. The answers you get from your post will be quite varied.
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Everything...
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I want the answers to be varied. I just wanted to know what the newer good quality cigars that came out over the last couple years may be.

Don't worry, I like trying cigars different cigars...........:-)
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You could get 100's of different answers to this. Just read around some of the reviews and threads about different cigar makers and make your own determinations. :-)
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I would agree. Different strokes for different strokes. I have tried some that got rave reviews and didnt like and vise versa. Wish I could be of more help!!
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Took your advice, they are now happily living in the new humi :-) I may be investing in a couple of icepacks due to our A/C going out and my humis getting up in heat... other question, currently, I have a dual temp wine fridge that we're not using the bottom half of, could I just stick my humis in that or is that bad for the humis?
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Won't hurt the humidor unless it gets condensate raining down on it.

Long term storage in a compressor cooled unit might be detrimental to the cigars due to the way the compressor based units dehydrate the air, but with the cigars inside a sealed humidor placed in a compressor cooled unit, this effect will be minimized.

How long is your AC going to be out for? A week? Less? If so, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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Not sure, we're having a hard time getting anyone to come out and ACTUALLY figure out what's wrong with our system.
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That's rough man... good luck with getting it fixed!

You're sticks should survive... not sure how much you could really do except keep them out of any sunny areas and potentially put them in a basement if you have one....



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