Comments on: Arganese Pyramid Scheme

By: Isaac Boda

Isaac Boda — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:26:40 +0000

That’s pretty messed up. If he denies it’s a pyramid… he needs to make a checklist of what a pyramid scheme requires first.

By: Heywood Jablowme

Heywood Jablowme — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:59:36 +0000

A scumbag liar who sells lousy cigars. Sounds like the perfect “stand up” guy for our site, puff.com.

Come over an check us out, we harbor scammers, thieves and scumbags like Gene Argonese

By: APnWI

APnWI — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:40:47 +0000

good investigative work, very intersting and very informative. wtf is he thinking?

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:51:32 +0000

Here’s a link to CEO policies and procedures. The very first paragraph tells you that Arganese Cigars LLC is dba CEO.

http://bigluke23.ceomlm.com/media/pdf/ceo_policies.pdf

By: Chief Hava

Chief Hava — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:00:31 +0000

This thing is clearly shady…a Multi Level Marketing org where you don’t market, or sell, anything other than the MLM? I mean at least Amway gives you soap.

That said, the real criminal aspect of this is that they are getting away with charging people for Arganese cigars….much less expecting them to smoke them.

Gene Arganese is a scheister…the industry would do well to shun him, and those of his ilk.

By: The Critic

The Critic — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:39:06 +0000

John: I completely agree with your comments, (maybe except the fact that Arganesse never produced a cigar worth smoking.) Customers would could go the Dominican Republic to take factory tours and Gene would sell them boxes at wholesale prices, screwing the retailer! Just a messed up company overall…

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:08:01 +0000

Sandy is Sandy Corn, VP of Operations for Arganese Cigars. This is just another crazy scheme they’ve come up with. First they were coming with schemes that just screwed the retailer (me), now they have found one that directly screws customers. I’m done with them. And it’s too bad because they were making some really good cigars and doing things right until THEY LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS!!

By: TimD

TimD — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:15:46 +0000

I’ve known some crooked things about Arganese for a while. A BOTL on one of my cigar forums was a rep for them and quit after some things about the company came to light. I’ve never bought an Arganese and never will.

Thanks for sharing this information, I think it’s important that people know the truth.

By: caosmoker

caosmoker — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:10:21 +0000

I was involved in MLM schemes back in the 80′s and you are exactly correct nobody but the initial people make any money at this sorta thing. I think in today’s world with the Bernie Madoff’s ripping people off it would be unthinkable to start such a venture. Why would someone get into a business knowing that eventually the music will stop and many will not have any chairs. The fact that Gene avoided answering questions and the shady way he is covering his involvement shows that this is a scam.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:35:49 +0000

Good job pulling back the covers on this (shady) operation.