Tower of Power Display Humidor Cabinet with Drawers | 3,000 Cigars

I am writing this review because I can't update my previous one.

This is a beautiful piece, the wood construction seems sturdy and is looks great. At first, it had some small, but very apparent, issues. First, the airflow is not great. I put my Oasis, which is described to handle a space much bigger than this, on the bottom as instructed. The airflow past the drawers just doesn't happen. I bought extra fans to help, but the top two shelves just didn't get results. So, I bought a second Oasis, the next size down, to put about 2/3 of the way up, and the combination has worked well.

The doors do not create a good seal. I installed adhesive LED lights in the humidor to add to the overall effect, and I could easily see light escaping the door seal about 95% of the way around. The Oasis said I should only have to refill the reservoir 1-2 times a month. I spent 2 weeks seasoning the humidor, and afterwards I was still replacing water every 2-3 DAYS! Living proof, the entire room smelled wonderfully like spanish cedar. I had to buy weather proof stripping, and though that is not expensive, it took a lot of trials with types and sizes before I got it right. I would say I spent two weeks and $80 extra to work on this. The weather stripping I settled on eventually only cost $20, but it took many iterations and trial + error to find one that worked properly.

The door lock and latching mechanisms are very poor quality. The door is being held shut by 3 small neodymium magnets, not really good enough to keep a large door shut. So, you start relying on the door lock to keep it shut, no big deal. Well... the door lock literally broke after owning the humidor for less than a month. The tumbler and pins broke off, and the entire lock could spin forever without the lock activating. At least the door lock broke in a way that wouldn't let the door shut, so though I was losing humidity constantly, I wasn't locked out from my cigars. I'm pretty handy, so I attempted to fix the lock, but it's a weird lock that isn't made very well (very cheap from China), so even after I fixed most of it, it still wasn't working great. I ran to home depot to buy a lock made for cabinet doors. Luckily, one existed that was somewhat comparable in size, and I didn't need to do much extra to get it to work.

Now, with the new door lock, the new weather stripping, and 2 cigar Oasis humidifiers (Oasis plus 3.0 and Oasis Magna 3.0) with 3 fans, the thing works great. I would say the larger Oasis is just needed for this size humidor anyways, so I don't include that in "extra" cost as I knew it was necessary before purchase. All in all, I spent approximately $290 extra for parts/equipment. It took 2 weeks to season, and then another 2.5 weeks to fully get it to this place.

If you are willing to have some headaches, do some experimenting/fixing things, and spend time + money, it's a great humidor. The price here is cheaper by more than $290 from most other stores, so it all washes out (and I am sure a lot of these issues still would reside from other vendors). The customer service wasn't terrible, but it certainly could have been better. Overall, I would say yourelegantbar itself would get a 3.5 star rating (the shipping issues from my previous review along with small customer service snaffu's hurt the score), the humidor, if none of these issues existed, would be 4.5 or 5 stars. Alas, the issues do exist, so that knocks it down. I would expect something this expensive to at least be manufactured better, instead of so cheaply. I will certainly love the humidor for a very long time, worth the headaches for sure, but I am not walking away with a warm fuzzy feeling.

Beautiful piece

I placed an order for a black humidor with humidifier and received instead a pine humidor and no humidifier. When I reached out the company they gave me such resistant after ,multiple back and forth they applied a $200 credit to my account and then stated I could not have a return of the item in exchange of the item that I actually ordered! That is CRAZY. They use a third party vendor so the communication was horrible; not fast and certainly not good. I disputed this with my credit card company as they provided a merchandise that I did not even order. I would NEVER order from them again. Here is the craziest thing; when I first made the call to ask why I received a pine humidor instead of a black one I gave them an option to send me the right one and I would absorb this one and place in another location. Even with me offering that this became a debacle; they could not get out of their own way and see the business benefit of the offer I gave them. I am just baffled; I guess Common Sense or Business Judgment is not something Ben the manager has or Joseph the customer service rep could ever wrap their head around. I encourage you to NOT use this company; fine another one.

My Cabinet Humidor is awesome. The process of ordering was easy. The shipment was flawless (without a scratch). And, your product was everything you described it as. Very nicely built cabinet. Assembling the cabinet was easy (as there wasn't much to do but attach the power cord and set shelving). I did NOT attach the provided casters/wheels. I went with the Oasis Magna 3.0 Humidifier and it is holding perfectly at my desired level of 67%. I placed a very small fan (slightly bigger than a computer fan) on the middle rack/tray to better distribute the air and humidity. LED puck lights were mounted under each shelf. I am thoroughly enjoying this cabinet.
Thank you,
Alan Chaudoin