Elbaz: hot or not?

[RuarriP]

I think I probably know the answer to his question already, but here goes:

Is Elbaz tobacco crap or not?  Smoking-hookah.com sells 250 grams
for 7.50 USD, cheaper than 11.00 USD for Nakhla.  Is it worth a
try, or should I stop being such a cheap b*stard?

Has anyone tried it?

If so, did you want to break your Hookah and kill yourself afterwards?

just wondering

[tobbsman]

From my experience El Baz is not one of the best brands out there. The amount of bad flavors is quite big. El Baz could be a quite good tobacco if the producers would handle the packaging better. Mostly there are holes in the plastic bag and the tobacco is dried out. If one can get a very fresh pack of El Baz it can be a very satisfying experience. I had once a really fresh pack of Capoccino and Bahreni El Sultan (Apple-Strawberry Mix) and it was fantastic !I orderd it a second time and it was totally sh*t because of the packaging...Hope that helps,You should better take some Fakher or Abu Haitham, wich have quality packaging, .... there you can never go wronggreetings,tobbsman

[alen]

know what you mean tobbsman i found some el baz mango over here that was totally ruined beacuse bad packagin so i went back to the store but it was the same with their whole supply

[MR Bubble]

11.00 USD for Nakhla? Must have shipping to Canada included. I haven't seen El Baz since Egypt. It was my first successful hookah session in rose flavor. The mixed fruit was crap, but I had some cola that was really yummy. I think the mixed fruit was dried out. So, 2 out of three suggests I had better luck than alen and Tobbsman, but it is still unacceptable.
Tobbsman, what's up? I haven't heard from you in a long time!
MR Bubble

[RuarriP]

Unfortunately, I'm somewhat limited by my location up here in the great white north. 

Dealing with these websites can be quite tricky, I've seen shipping
charges to Canada as high as $65 US!!  Most good sites like
hookah-shisha.com charge about $25 US, which is still a large
percentage of the price of an order.  Smoking-hookah can get my
gear here for $8 because they ship airmail from Israel.  I
honestly don't know how this works.  Like MR Bubble implied, their
prices are probably inflated to adjust for the low shipping rate. 
But it's still $75 US with shipping for 3 jars of Al-Fakher and a box
of coals from hookah-shisha.com. While three  jars of
Nakhla and a box of coals from smoking-hookah is $57.  That's a
fairly significant difference.  Also, smoking-hookah can deliver
to me a lot faster, which is cool.

  But, I digress...I'll probably break down and order
some good stuff in the summer, when I'm back to work.  I want to
see what all the hype is about. 

Thanks for the Elbaz info Alen, Tobbsman, I don't think I'll sink that
low.  I got a dried out batch of shisha from a shop in
town....NEVER AGAIN