New Services for 2008!

I have been very busy lately but not busy enough for my Blog and Readers. I have spent a lot of time adding "Services" that will make it easy for you to buy Goods & Services. You can now book a flight on Private Jet, utilize Price Line to book a Vacation or Business Trip, purchase cigars, accessories, Social Cigar Chat Room, Coffee, Bed & Bath Products for you and your Kid(s), Sandals Bahamas Vacation, Amazon.com, and Gifts from the Discovery Shop. I have given you the reader choices in a one-stop-shop forum. I will continue to add more Links that will make your life easier. This is your Library, free and accessible 24/7, and if there's you want to see added to my blog, just email me, and I'll do my best.

All of these Hyper Links for Goods & Services can be found on my Blog at:

• 2) Shopping Mall #1, and

• 28) Shopping Mall #2

You may have noticed that I gave every Header a number, so that you can easily remember where it is/was, and in future Post Threads I will reference a topic with it's corresponding number for faster locating.

I look forward to adding more user friendly services for 2008!

Best regards,

Vinvango

Peet's Coffee & Tea "Contest": Win Free Coffee For Yourself & 5-Friends For One Year!!!

I love Coffee and coffee loves me right back. I put my morning coffee through the espresso machine, and turn out a great concoction. What the hell does that mean Vinvango? (lol). The following is an Iced Coffee Recipe that I came up with about a year ago, and here it is: I take a 20oz. cup, place 1/4 cup Nesquik, 1-teaspoon granulated sugar, 3-shots of Cafe Bustelo', 1/4 cup frozen Cool Whip, 3-lrg. ice cubes, and the balance of the glass will be made up of cold Milk. When coffee (3-shots) is done brewing, throw all the ingredients (except milk) into the cup, and stir for 20sec. only, stir and add milk to the top. You can add whip cream (from a CAN) to the top of cup, sprinkle a little Nesquik onto whip cream and your "concoction" is ready for it's presentation.

Contest: For 42 years, coffee lovers have discovered Peet’s through the passionate words of their friends. Continue this tradition by sharing your story with the people you want to introduce to Peet’s, and you may win a year’s supply of FREE Peet’s beans for you—and up to 5 of your friends!*

Enter your Peet’s story and send it to up to five of your friends. Every week 10 winners will be selected. The winners AND their friends will win free coffee beans (or tea) for a year — A Comparative tasting tour
(2 pounds a month for 12 months). Winning stories will be selected based on originality, creativity and persuasiveness. Enter Now!

Contest Starts, March 10, 2008 and Ends April 20, 2008. Good luck and Best Wishes!

Vinvango

Vendor Steps up to the Plate, and Hits a Home Run!

When dealing with Vendors in the Cigar Industry, you will come across certain individuals who want the big bucks, and notoriety. That just doesn't work for me. These vendors bank on the number of people they associate with, but when it comes to values, moral judgements, and ethical practice's, they fall way short of the mark. I have run into some seedy character's and wont mention their names, but you know who you are and I will not promote your site even on my death bed. I'm talking about certain Cigar Blogs that feel the need to display arrogance. My Blog is a Resource Center, free to all, no tricks, no gimmicks, and especially no big hoops to jump through to selflessly promote their Blog.

I praise those who go above and beyond for cigar consumers, like: Sean Knutsen @ Boveda-Direct. This Marketing Director jumps through hoops for his customer's, not the other way around. I have given him all my business and refereed my readers to him because Sean is an expediter, and if somethings broke, he will fix it, like yesterday!!! I give Sean & Boveda-Direct a whopping 10+.

Keep up the great work Sean, and look forward to many more transaction's!

Best regards,
VinVango

Cigar Chat Room's-Can you play Nice w/others?

Chat room's are popping up everywhere on just about every topic. In my experience it's best if you try a few forums to see how you get along with it's members. Not all forums are nice, and some are down right rude. I put together some really great forum Links (see title 15) list) for you to test drive. Remember, whats great/good for one person, may not workout for you. Register with a few, and see how people respond to you as a newbie to their site. If everyone comes out to greet you, that's a good sign! Feel the mood of the members, are they stale n old acting, or upbeat n warm. I found my forum "Social Cigar", and can't say enough great things about it's members and website. Take a look at my Title: (15) (scroll down), and browse the list of chat room's that I registered & researched.

Play nice with others, but don't get played!

Vinvango