We monitor vetted overseas retailers that ship direct to mainland China — live prices, stock alerts the minute your cigar returns, and a customs calculator that tells you the true landed cost. We never sell tobacco.
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Prices & stock scraped every 10 minutes from retailer sites · photos © respective retailers/brands
How it works
80+ SKUs across retailers verified to ship to mainland China — Swiss retailers for Cubans, Atlantic Cigar & Cigar4U for New World.
The minute your watched cigar restocks or drops in price. Plain email — works on any phone, no Chinese apps needed.
From the retailer, on their site, with your card. We take no commission and never touch the product. Import duty is yours — see the math below.
Customs, demystified
| Taxable value | Actual purchase price (GACC Announcement 2024 No.175); the official table (¥50/stick) applies only if the price can't be verified |
| Duty rate on mailed cigars | 50% |
| Duty waived when total tax ≤ | ¥50 |
| Per-parcel value cap | ¥2,000 |
| Quantity limit (mail) | No published stick cap — "reasonable personal use", assessed on the spot; one box per parcel is the norm |
Rule of thumb: one box at a time, keep the invoice, pay the duty with a smile — it's 50% of what you paid.
Humidor
Gold arcs = ideal zone (18–21°C · 62–72% RH) · blue tick = dew point on the temperature ring
Below the dew point, condensation forms on the wrapper (think winter cold-chain delivery) — let sticks warm up before opening the box. EMC model: Jia et al. 2022, Agricultural Products Processing, original regression coefficients (hand-rolled w = 0.152 − 0.0868t + 0.250h; machine-made w = −1.80 − 0.0531t + 0.271h). Dew point: Magnus formula, Alduchov–Eskridge (1996) coefficients. Humidor guidance only.
Membership
Questions
Yes. We publish information; you import personally, as personal-use imports with duty paid (there is no published annual stick cap for mail; one box at a time is the norm). Thousands of residents do exactly this. We walk you through the numbers before you spend a cent.
Never. No inventory, no brokering, no commissions from retailers. You buy directly from the retailer on their website — we just make sure you never miss the stock and never misjudge the landed cost.
Plain email. Every member rides the hot radar — sold-out cigars you watch are re-checked every minute, and the alert leaves within seconds of a restock; the full shelf sweeps every 10 minutes. Works on any phone, any country.
Two tracks. Membership is what you pay for: Essentials ($82) unlocks everything — live shelf, calculators, minute-by-minute hot radar, 22 watch slots growing to 40; Founding ($238, 26 seats ever) carries every Essentials feature plus a lifetime price lock and the permanent wax-seal badge — it costs more on purpose; the seat is the point. Ash ranks are what you cannot pay for: they grow with tenure only, adding watch slots and perks over time. Money buys function; only time buys rank.
Card (Visa / Mastercard / Amex) or Apple Pay, through Stripe's hosted checkout — billed in CNY (the USD prices shown are close conversions; your card converts automatically), activation is instant. Founding seats are assigned personally — email the concierge. Prefer a human either way? hi@longashclub.com works too. 7-day full refund regardless of how you paid.
The fine print
LONG ASH CLUB is an information and concierge service for cigar enthusiasts. We publish market intelligence: prices, availability, shipping and customs guidance. We do not sell, broker, import or ship tobacco products, and we hold no inventory. All purchases are made by you, directly from independent retailers, under their terms. Trademarks and product photography belong to their respective owners; displayed for identification only — owners may request removal at any time. No affiliation or endorsement is implied. 18+/21+ only, per your jurisdiction. Smoking harms your health.
7-day no-questions refund on the annual pass, from day of payment; afterwards refunds are pro-rata by remaining days. Email hi@longashclub.com from your registered address.
We store your email address and watch-list, nothing more. No tracking pixels, no data resale, no third-party analytics. Delete your account by email and everything goes with it.
