Get emails, buy samplers, that way you can try and compare diffrent brands that have simular taste profiles. then don't be afraid of seconds, some of them don't look pretty but smoke well and generally have the same taste as the labeled one.
Buy odd balls I was broke and took a chance on an a 20 package was triangle IIRC lable on the package was 'Indian Tobac" for $20. smoked one right after it came in, but was very dry so I stuck it in the humidor smoked on e a week till after a month they woke up and turned out to be very good, so good that the price had dropped to $15 the next month so I bought 2, next month 3, then there was no more. Finck out of TX was working up a blend for someone, they sold a bunch as a taste test, Honduran tobacco fantastic one iof the nicest I have ever smoked, so they ended up in their catolog under their name and I understood that the orignal customer used their own. IIRC they were kind of expensive at the time, Maybe I had better go off and look I haven't had an email from them in years
I used to get paper catalogs you can spend hours comparing costs, flavor profiles... but it is easier to do on line and you don't have to dispose of the catolog