{"id":4505,"date":"2013-03-20T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T08:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2013-08-24T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:00:00","slug":"havana-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/havana-fakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana – Fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"nfc No trip to Havana is free of fake cigars.<\/p>\n

While walking around the city I took Frank to the place behind the Partagas factory where I was offered fake cigars last November.<\/p>\n

Caught unawares by our visit the selection wasn’t great, but we were promised much more stuff and many more boxes should we return later – which we didn’t.<\/p>\n

Another interesting fake “find” was at one of our Casas – the Landlady happened to have some boxes for sale offered to her by a friend that were incredibly cheap and she would like to know our “expert” opinion.<\/p>\n

They were better than street-quality boxes that we were offered out of the blue when we moved in before the lady learned we were serious smokers of mostly un-banded cigars which kinda intrigued her as well.<\/p>\n

Guess she had had better luck with people smoking “bands” …<\/p>\n

They look good but : Seals and stickers inside the box, bands on the Maduro 5 had 4 rows of dots, the price was too mucho good at 40 cookies a box incl. the 5 cookies commission for the sale, guess 99% of tourists and maybe even others would have fallen for them.<\/p>\n

Genuine cigars are NOT sold via landladies in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Not even the serious ones.<\/p>\n

Not these kind, not any kind.<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

Nino<\/b><\/p>\n

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