Counterfeit
Sellers Archive
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April 20, 2002 |
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: moi93 |
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Even European counterfeit sellers have no shame; The infamous
glass-top. What's even more amazing is that this auction has
received 16 bids thus far.
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April 20, 2002 |
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: hafidhabib |
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LOL! I love this one.
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April 20, 2002 |
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: tigersunny69 |
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tigersunny69 has a couple of counterfeit auctions. The first
is a box of Partagas 898's that has both the Habanos sticker
and the green warranty seal. Authentic Partagas 898's do not
have either sticker applied to the varnished box. The other
is a counterfeit box of Romeo y Julieta Cedros #3 that shows
the green warranty seal on the wrong side of the box.
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April 19, 2002 |
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: kripo1 |
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Here's a counterfeit auction from the German eBay site. Thanks
to George for pointing this out.
Translation
(rough):
Cohiba Esplendidos 1 crate 25 Stk.
Original to 5.04.02 from the vacation bring along, guarantees
original. / No street sale. / In wooden boxwooden box wooden
box with seal etc. unopened. German retail price 750th. dispatch
takes over buyers, and I take over Ebay. Cash on delivery,
transfer or bar much fun with enjoy.
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April 19, 2002 |
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: fantasiana
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And another...
Translation
(rough):
Opportunity! Original Cuban Hoyo
de Monterrey in the format Churchill (178 mm). Necessarily
Cohibas and also no copies do not have to be! Hoyo de Monterrey
is also one of the large Cuban names! The cigars of this mark
are considered as mild representatives of the Havanna. They
are freshly from Cuba bring along and there in a factory bought.
The cigars are in a Topzustand. Storage professionally with
70% air humidity. Buyer pays forwarding expenses. Payment
by bank credit transfer. P.S: Only again on Sunday, the 29,4
in the homeland will back be. Possibly I will be able to answer
up to then no E-Mail.
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April 18, 2002 |
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: kpckees |
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I not knocking any country, but recently there is a rash of
counterfeit sellers from Canada dominating eBay recently.
Here's another guy selling some blatant counterfeits.
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: art_boyz |
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It seems like there are a rash of counterfeit sellers out
of Canada lately. Since Candian citizens can legally visit
and bring back Cuban cigars you would think that you would
see more authentic Cuban cigars being sold. However, many
Canadian citizens travel to Cuba on vacation and then bring
back a couple of fake counterfeit boxes (mostly Cohibas, since
they can make more money) to sell to help offset their vacation
costs. All one has to do is purchase two boxes of Cohiba Esplendidos
on the streets of Cuba for US$80 and then sell both of them
for US$900. That's a profit of US$810.
Not only are both warranty seals incorrectly placed on both
of art_boyz's
auctions, the warranty seal on the Cohiba Robustos should
be on the top left corner, and the white Habanos sticker (which
has also been placed upside down) should be on the bottom
right corner.
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: watsdamatawitchu |
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Updated:
April 16, 2002
Checkout his comments:
On Apr-16-02 at 11:35:09 PDT, seller
added the following information:
I'VE BEEN GETTING EMAILS FROM BIDDERS ASKING ME IF THIS IS
THE REAL THING. THIS BOX WAS NOT
BOUGHT ON THE STREET, ITS FACTORY SEALED AND WAS SOLD ON THE
STREET, IAM CUBAN I KNOW HOW THE REAL THING LOOKS LIKE, SMELLS
LIKE AND TASTES LIKE. IF YOU WANT TO TRUST A CANADIAN CITIZEN
THAT WENT TO CUBA AND BOUGHT IT THERE THATS UP TO YOU. IF
YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS EMAIL
ME AND I WILL TELL YOU MORE IN DETAIL WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.
GOOD LUCK!
Is
this guy confusing? Or, is it just me? Not bought on the street,
but it was sold on the street? Yeah, this guy may be Cuban,
but that doesn't mean he is trying to sell you authentic Cohiba
Esplendidos. To us, that just means that he has easy access
to US$40 counterfeits and can sell there here in the states
for US$400+.
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Checkout
his comments:
On Apr-15-02 at 18:36:02 PDT, seller
added the following information:
I WANT TO MAKE A CORRECTION, MY SEAL IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF
THE BOX NOT THE RIGHT SO THIS IS THE REAL THING. THATS WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN YOU USE SOMEONE ELSE'S PICS. ON THE BOTTOM OF
THE BOX IT SAYS THE FOLLOWING: HABANO, HECHO EN CUBA, TOTALMENTE
A MANO. AND IT HAS A STAMP WITH LR00.
That's
funny. He admits to stealing someone elses auction pictures
and then sticks his foot further up his a@#$ by telling you
that his warranty seal is on the left side, not the right.
All authentic Cohiba Esplendidos have their warranty seal
on the right side.
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No,
watsdamatawitchu!
Here's a counterfeit box of Cohiba Esplendidos up for auction.
Check out that new warranty seal with the washed out red lettering.
You know, we have seen more auctions for Cuban cigars from
people living in Florida than any other state, and we are
still waiting to see the first auction with authentic Cuban
cigars.
Did
you know what watsdamatawitchu,
has a brother in Canada named auroradave.
See anything familiar???
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: mobiuspowershred |
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mobiuspowershred
has never sold on eBay so he decided to offer up these seran-wrapped
Cohibas as first box.
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: vpofkuba |
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vpofkuba
has an auction on eBay for a box of Montecristo No. 2's. This
is his actual description on the auction, "You
are bidding on a box of unopened Montecristo No 2 cigars.
Please NOTE: 1.The value of the auctioned item is in the collectable
packaging, not in the tobacco itself. the box has not been
opened, but that the tobacco within is NOT for consumption.
2. You cannot buy this box in stores. In the stores the package
will have the Havana house seals and/or the Canadian Duty
paid stamp 3. the buyer of these collectable MUST BE at least
18 years of age. 4. Please before biding check all of your
applicable laws and shipping regulations in carrying out the
transaction. Shipping will be $10.00 by mail or $25.00 by
Fed ex. I accept Money Orders, Cash and Pay Pal. Please e-mail
if you have any other questions."
A
lot of these guys put such a description since they are not
allowed to sell cigars on eBay, thus making the auction seem
like it is for a collectible item. However, in actuality,
the description of his auction is ironically 100% accurate.
Below are the pictures from his auction and ones that I asked
him to email me. While they are very blurry you can still
make out that it has a new warranty seal, which first appeared
in 1999, but employs the old factory code, NIVELACUSO, which
ended in 1998.
The auction ended with seven total bids with the highest bid
being US$227.50. The unlucky winner is r.e.man (103).
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: Tony2short |
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Oh,
tony2short
is definitely short on one thing - brains. Just when we thought
we had seen the last of them, some genius always has to surprise
us and come up with another one of these glass-top Cohiba Esplendidos.
Let's see if anyone actually places a bid on this one.
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FEATURED COUNTERFEIT SELLER: Maurotrade/Maroulin |
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Update:
maurolin May 2, 2002
(1)
Maroulin
is back with the same old stuff, still counterfeit. Here is
the same auction for a counterfeit leather humidor of Montecristos.
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Featured
on our original site Maroulin
seems to have changed his name to Maurotrade, but his cigars
remain the same - counterfeits. This rip off artist has several
auctions on and one on eBay - do not bid on these items -
they are blatant counterfeits. Cohiba, nor Montecristo, have
never been produced in such packaging. Yahoo auctions here
and his eBay auctions here.
Below are some of his counterfeit pictures:
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