Does Fuente care if authorized dealers gouge his products? Just curious since so many do it...I was just quoted by a website that 800+ for a box of 32 Petit Lanceros is retail HAH.....I told him my bm sells them for 12-13 he said thats how much they went for in the 90s...yeah right, I hate gougers!!How can you make a living off of someone elses misfortune?
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Nope, doesn't care.
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As has been said many times, a retailer is free to sell his goods at whatever price he feels. It is called CAPITALISM! If you dont like his price, then shop elsewhere. :-)
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Ive got some gorilla fingers. $100/inch.
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Them better be fingers off a real gorilla.:-):-)
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rofl!
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someone must be paying it... just like the $80 Opus sticks at the local resorts...
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No such thing as price gouging. No one is forcing you to buy the product. You determine that it is not a price you are willing to pay and move on.
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At that price they'll be sitting on them for a long while......LOL
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Well actually certain products...mainly Tatuaje, Illusione, and Padron are price protected...meaning if they catch you raising or even lowering prices you can lose your account....I'm not so sure if Fuente does it or not
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Maybe your B&M is buying them grey market and paying too much wholesale?

Cigars are a tough business these days in USA for many B&M's.
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If someone only smokes 1 inch does the next person get a discount for the remaining inch's?
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This is what I mean, that's why I asked...
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Price protection only applies to vendors who are authorized dealers. In Fuente's case they have not added an OpusX vendor in several years. A shop may be a Fuente dealer and still have to buy OpusX on the secondary market. In this case price protection rules do not apply. :-)
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makes sense, THANKS
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:-)
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In the case of the Opus... I think a lot (all) of the online dealers buy their stock from the authorized B&Ms, and then sell them online... which then leads into bobarian's comment
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this whole "price protecting" only seems to come about when the price is too low... when its well above msrp, well we don't seem to hear much about that. Complete and total BS, if a retailer can sell it for the price they set, let it happen, same goes for when the price is less than someone else's. JMO YMMV of course.
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You need to pass those along to Tom -- he likes them when his butt itches,,,
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:-)
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