GoPickItUpForMeBro

can't we come up with a better phrase than this?

 

No manners and the use of "bro" is why I look down at it ...

If any brewery is really worried about any of the above then they can just do a "1" bottle limit. DOH!

 

There should be a section in the trade fourm called CANyouPLEASEpickITupFORme. If anybody in New Jersey or Eastern PA want to pick up fresh Heady Topper for me if they are going up there let me know. I can return the favor in the first week of August when I go up there.

 

Given your past conflicts, I'm guessing you're not going to like this. But a quick Google search turns up the first (to my knowledge) utterances of "goandpickitupformebro":

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/trade-negotiation.21749/page-2#post-262149
http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/trading-sense-red-flags.22462/page-4#post-286352

Which explains a lot, no?

But, as Hanzo said:

That's the difference, IMO. Even today I hesitate to ask my good trading partners to pick up beer for me. I asked ramnuts for a case of Cherry Adam '12, for which he stood in line at 4 am (!!!!!!). He drove it down to me and wouldn't even take my money. So not only am I ridiculously in his debt, I'm afraid to ask him for anything else.

I actually started feeling badly for my Midwest contacts who were waiting in line overnight in snow and shit to send me a couple of bottles of KBS... Which is why I stopped trading for beer from that region. There is just some point where you're asking too much of someone.

/When goandpickitupformebro goes wrong

 

With people I don't know I feel much more comfortable trading beer for beer; the concept of buying beer for a stranger, shipping it, then getting reimbursed through Paypal is odd.
As for my bros, no problem picking it up for them.

 

This is spot on. If there is something on the shelf or sitting at a brewery I'm headed to and we know each other then ask. If we haven't had previous interactions - it's probably not going to happen.

goandpickitup gets a bad name when some facebook groups go and buy up everything on the shelf or buy enough to inconvenience everyone else there.

 

Agreed, nothing to be ashamed of here. My small group of tasting friends do this from time to time when we know that someone can't get off of work for a release, etc. And at the end of the day, it is still just beer and if I can get some extra for my friends to enjoy then I'm happy to do it.

 

THIS! Well said Hanzo! Your a poet of beer knowledge!

On a side note...Cmon people we gotta use common sense! If you dont know the person that you ask to goandpickitupformebro...its probably not going to work! We cant expect a random stranger to just get you beer because you want to try it badly or for whatever other reason. I see people trying this tactic all too often on the forums. Let be realistic! Cheers!

 

Haters gotta hate, that's why bro. Make no mind of them. This is a free country and if they don't like it they can go to Cuba. Lol

 

I don't mind picking stuff up for people once in a while. I'll usually offer, but when people come out of the woodwork asking for stuff is when I get a little annoyed.

 

I used to truck-chase McDonald's Teenie Beanie Babies, now I #goandpickitupbro

 

Clearly you don't live in Southern California....one time I drove to Alpine Brewing (about 25 minutes away) three times in a week just to get growlers of Nelson for a friend of a friend that I've never met. #igoandpickitupbro

 

E told me about this happening during Expo week. The effort to #goandpickitupformebro was insane. I definitely owe you a beer at Churchill's when I make it down that way... Or one free goandpickitupformebro card

 

You clearly underestimate how much free-time I have on my hands when I'm home. I'm like a goandpickitupbro shark in open water...

 

I guess there are worse places to strike out on a goandpickitupformebro quest than ABC. Regardless, big ups

 

i've got family in Mattawan and Paw Paw... at this point you and i are practically cousins. it's the least you can do, brosef.

 

Wait a minute, people take time off from work just to chase beer? What the hell's going on out here?

 

This whole thing (essentially muling) started to get ugly when people began using it as a way to crowbar people into buying their beer for them, which is around the time when "ISO: mules" posts were banned here. See Upland Lambics, earlier Jackie O's releases and Beat B5 for reference.

 

I would do this for people I have traded with before, but probably not on the random.