From Rich at CigarCyclopedia:

CigarAuctioneer.com just completed an auction of 40 five-packs of the Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story, a neat perfecto of four inches long and 48 ring.

Bidding started at only $11.95, and Famous Smoke Shop (which owns and operates the CigarAuctioneer.com site) sells the Short Story in a five-pack for $21.95 when in stock. Of course, there are no five-packs in stock now since they were all sold at auction!

A total of 20 bidders won lots, with the highest bid at $30.00 for one five-pack and the lowest at $25.00. The big winner (?) in the auction was one bidder who bought eight lots – 40 cigars – for $204.00 or $5.10 per cigar . . . or $1.28 an inch!

There were nine bidders who won more than one lot. The total of the winning bids was $1,045.36 for 200 cigars or $5.23 each. Famous normally sells a box of 25 Short Story cigars for $108.95, or $4.33 each.

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From Martin Fricker at The Mirror comes this piece on an upcoming auction of JFK memorabilia–including a couple of humidors still containing the cigars favored by President Kennedy:

This is history under the hammer… a bidding war for some of the most astonishing American memorabilia that has ever come on to the market.

Thousands of items that once belonged to John F Kennedy are up for grabs, many of them on internet auction site eBay.

But the glory pieces will be auctioned off in New York - including the watch he wore during his 1961 presidential inauguration and the flags that flew on his limousine when he was assassinated.

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Now, both cigar fanatics and neighborhood cigar stores can buy their cigars just like the big boys. CigarAuctioneer.com has begun auctioning boxed and bundle cigars in bulk “Wholesale Lots.”

Wholesale Lot auctions are English auctions containing multiple identical items in which each bid placed is for the entire lot and sold to the highest bidder. The “Wholesale Lot” auction is simply an English auction containing multiple identical items. However, unlike a Yankee auction, which also involves multiple items, each bid placed is for the entire lot. If a cigar smoker usually buys a particular brand and size in quantity, they’ll now be able to bid on three, four, five boxes or more at once. Local “Mom & Pop” cigar stores, who normally buy in this manner, will also be able to take advantage of these auctions for brands that they already stock, or can’t get through the manufacturer.

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