Potential bad trader: calcio360jrd

Not that it helps anything but I had a box damaged this week and I called fed ex and asked if they could just send it the rest of the way and the lady told me they will not deliver a damaged box. She said they will just send it back to me.

 

Doesn't sound promising, what did you send for the two Hunahpu?

 

Had the same issue last week, Fedex filed a damage report, inspected my box and found alcohol, then sent it back to me, requested that i have the recipient pick it up, which they denied. I did get a call from their regional manager about the shipment of alcohol, but they weren't pissed. She mentioned getting some sort of a license or permit to ship alcohol, anyone familiar with this? Box arrived back to me soaked in stout and everything was there, minus the broken extra.

Kevin

 

well the lady i talked to just asked what was in the box and i said "yeast samples".

 

While Fedex policy is not to deliver alcohol, it's up to the person that deals with it. Often times they do repack and ship it on.

As for the trade, this sounds like more than 'potential' to me. Zhukov is a super easy bottle to replace. And Hunahpu's isn't exactly impossible... he owes you those bottles unless he can find a more easily gotten and suitable substitue for you. Two months after a broken box with no responses is borderline unjustifiable, though it would be nice to hear from the other party before we light the torches.

 

Had a package from WI coming to me get damaged this past Friday. They held it at the sorting facility closest to me and I went and picked it up. They had even cleaned the package up pretty well. Just a few sticky bottles and 2-3 small shards of glass. My shipper talked with the QA person. Not quite sure of the tone, but it sounded like she simply towed the company line. The guy at the sorting facility mentioned that the shipper needed an alcohol label on the box, but i assume that label would trigger extra fees and licensure.

They were pretty friendly to me. The guy mentioned that they get a lot of exceptions in colorado. We agreed it was due to the beercation nature of a lot of our tourism. He said they open a lot of boxes where someone has thrown two six packs in a box to ship back home to themselves and not even wrapped bottles individually. I had a short discussion with the guy about their facility. I told him I was always interested in how the sorting process worked and he even took me just inside the back door and gave me a rundown. Pretty cool stuff.

 

You gave him an insanely good deal. Darkness and SC can likely land Hunahpu x2 by themselves. Either Speedway Stout or a BA Boris is a clean 1:1 with Zhukov. That was very generous of you.

Point being, that sucks double that you're getting screwed.

 

It was a Humidor Zhukov. Wasn't that more limited?

 

Good point - I missed the Humidor part. Still probably not a bad 1:1 with BA Boris though. We can also flip it to the Baller Stout, which puts it drastically in his favor on a 1:1 though, and then we still have a "free" BA Boris and Speedway. Anyway you slice it, it was a very generous trade IMO.

 

Yeah, I always undervalue BA Boris and Speedway just because I always see them on the shelf. Makes me forget that some places don't have them

I know, I know, Ohio BA problems.

 

I did a Hunahpu trade with Jason/calico360jrd back in March. Still had my thread, here was our trade.....I sent 1 x 2010 Abyss, 2 x 2011 Abyss, 1 x Black Butte XXIII, 1 x Chocolate Sombrero, 1 x Freetail Velocihopter
1 x JK Black Metal - original (not the Farmhouse) 1 x Real Ale 15th Anniv. RIS, he sent...1 x Hunahpu, 1 x Humidor Marshall Zhukov, 1 x Victory at Sea, 1 x Marshall Zhukov, 1 x Bolita Brown, 1 x Improv

I think it was generally fair - since I was happy to get Hunahpu. He was a little slow to respond, but he did come through on the trade. His shipping box was the cheap cardboard wine shippers. Everything made it safely, but I remember at the time that I was surprised that the container actually got the beers to me safely. I still have it, but I'm too afraid to reuse it. I'm not surprised that there could be a shipping problem with those type of shippers.

 

I got a box from calcio360jrd back in March. He was a little slow to respond and slow to ship, but everything arrived intact with no problems.

 

What a twist!

 

I've trade with Jason before twice without a problem.

 

That stinks.... looks like you sent a pretty big box.....

 

I'm glad he's being a stand up guy by looking past the thread.