I can't say that I've noticed a quality difference. When I was smoking cigars the first time, I mostly bought boxes, and getting rid of the empties was a thing. I didn't want to toss them in the trash, so I was constantly trying to doff them off on friends and family. "Don't you want a cigar box to put those [insert noun] in?"
Nowadays, I am a net box importer as I buy so many 5vers and have to buy empty boxes to put them in so that I can stack in the tupperdor. Luckily SJ's in Philly will just give empties away, so whenever I'm near them, I grab a couple.
But, if I'm being brutally honest, I have nothing interesting to add to this topic. I just wanted to post so that I would have 1000 posts! I DID IT!!
I would like to thank my agent, my lovely wife, and mother, and my mother's wife, and my wife's mother, and my mother's mother without whom none of this would not have been possible.
Do I get a door prize? Is there a secret handshake? Platinum membership? Do I get to see the commie 13 (or 7 or 12 or whatever it is) list?