What Brought YOU To Cigar.Com?
Hays
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I thought this might be an interesting topic - something we can all contribute on - and maybe a good place for new members to introduce themselves. Note - you guys know I don't work for Ccom, so this isn't a marketing kitsch ;-).
**As the title states, what brought you to Cigar.Com, and how has your experience progressed?
**How did you find the website?
**Were you a customer, and then joined the forums?
**Where were you in your cigar experience development when you found the site - brand new, veteran, middle ground?
**Has the website, or forum, changed or enhanced your cigar experiences?
These are all just suggestions of places to start - by all means, answer however you wish. Looking forward to seeing the input!
**As the title states, what brought you to Cigar.Com, and how has your experience progressed?
**How did you find the website?
**Were you a customer, and then joined the forums?
**Where were you in your cigar experience development when you found the site - brand new, veteran, middle ground?
**Has the website, or forum, changed or enhanced your cigar experiences?
These are all just suggestions of places to start - by all means, answer however you wish. Looking forward to seeing the input!
Comments
I found the forums on accident one day, early on in my newbie days. I was only a few months in to cigars when I stumbled in here. And since then, I feel I know more about cigars already than I might have learned in my whole life without this amazing resource!
A buddy suggested that I try out cigars, so I went into a local shop and spent some time there with the sales guys. After tooling around shops for a couple weeks, I recalled an ad I had seen in Playboy numerous times for a 20ct humidor and 10 sticks for low low price of $19.95. Figured this would be a great start, so I ordered that up straight away. Joined the forums immediately, and started blasting away with questions. Since then, my knowledge of cigars and the industry has skyrocketed, and it is VAST part due to the amazing people at Cigar.Com and of this forum. The friendships that I've made here are priceless to me, and lordy knows that I sing the praises of Cigar.Com at every opportunity.
I am glad I got the new hobby. I don't know if it's just myself telling me lies, but I seem to be calmer these days. The 1 to 2 hours a day, 3 or 4 times a week, spent smoking does me wonders. My bank account is taking a massive damage, though....just need more tweeking to spread the spending over the year so I don't give myself a heart attack when the bank statement posts.
I was a customer before I discovered the forum but was so glad I did as it gave me the opportunity to increase my knowledge of cigars. I was still pretty early in my development of my palate and knowledge at that point.
I have increased my knowledge exponentially since coming here.
I am held here by the unexplainable and overwhelming gravitational pull of "The Beard". It is the greatest force known in the universe and it cannot be broken.
I was pretty much a newb when I came to Ccom, which I discovered when my best friend bought me a year's subscription to the Cigar of the Month club! (Now THATS a friend, huh???) That was about two years ago.
Of course that led me to the web site. Which led me to OTHER web sites, some of which sometimes had lower prices. Didnt take me long to figure out WHY they had lower prices. Burn issues, construction issues, shipping issues - all issues I found I never had when dealing with Ccom. Which is why they get so much of my business now.
Never really explored the web site too much until I blew my knee out this January, and then a whole new world opened up. Learned A TON about the hobby, and met by far the best group of people it has ever been my privilege to consider myself a part of.
I needed to do research as to that point all I had was a box of swisher sweets...
A google search later I landed here.
no, seriously...
i was quasi-interested in cigars and thought i would learn more before i went on. my father told me they require some work to maintain so i knew i didnt know enough.
as i always do in this situation, sought out more info. i did a yahoo! search for "cigar forum"
this was in early 2006. cigar.com didnt have its own forum. they were piggybacking on the AmBack forum that later became the EOTAC forum, and even later, the Make ready Forum.
when cigar.com split off i signed up here. i was one of the first on this forum. i may be the only person from the old forum besides VinceO.
how have i progressed?
you tell me.
i have more posts than anyone here (so far. and joe is catching up)
i have become friends with many of you
cigars have become a passion.
forums... then customer... then friends.
i was so new it wasnt even funny.
i knew almost nothing.
im still a perpetual newbie. new things always coming out. different blends, products, makers, brands...
yes. i would not have found about 75% of the brands i know enjoy if not for this forum.
After I did enough research, I became a customer.
Of course I was brand new (and am still learning).
This website and forum has definitely enhanced my cigar experience! I don't go anywhere else.
I too shopped here and other sites. I spend most of my money here due to the knowledge of the staff and the great customer service. The forums have been fun and I've enjoyed the give and take.
I have even forgiven the non-Yankee fans!
COOL POST Brother Hays!
How I found Cigar.com was through a Vetern Poster here on the website,that happened to be a friend of mine that i guess i never relized smoked cigars till i saw him smoking a Fine Hand Rolled Smoke on his Facebook Page....
That would be Brandon.. bbc020
I sent him an email and told Him I was an occasional Cigar smoker and asked him about his Hobby and he sent me to CCOM to surf the Forums and the Catalogs and the rest is History!
Brandon sent me my first Bomb to introduce me to the Bombings, followed by Me meeting Hays for my first Game as a newbie Hays was like the first Mystery Stick try guy and he passed it on to me to break me into the Games!
I brag on CCOM every chance I get! This community of men and the occasional Women (Thanks Kelly) is among the best group of people I have ever had the pleasure to be involved with.
I am here to Stay!
he hasnt posted in a while
and i havent seen him since the herf in Akron last winter.
Once I found the website I just looked at cigars for probably a few weeks. I read the blogs, looked at what was for sale, and went to other sites to see how they stacked up. I also ordered some ITC 10yr seconds. After that, I kinda browsed the forums and decided to join.
he has been traveling i guess with his new job, I havent heard much out of him sine i saw him in July. Not sure when the wedding is. I organized that bomb for him and Hays, he did send me an email and told me he had recieved some Bombs. other than that Im clueless.
I was doing a search for sites and the Cigar.COM just seemed like a good place to start. After I found it, and looked over the forums and talked to some of the staff, I was hooked for life. I'm really hoping that is a long time !