Please do not buy our beers on eBay

Go get 'em, Scott!

 

This is why i love scott and his freetail crew.

 

Hmm... pretty interesting that about 30 min. after Scott posted this thread I did a Freetail search on eBay and came up with that La Muerta auction page(I'd post a link but my comment would probably get deleted). About 5 min. later... it was pulled, "no longer available", from the seller. This tells me that the seller is a BA, who read Scott's post and was scared away by his TABC investigation threat, and ban from Freetail events. This seller also happens to be from San Antonio.

He/she also had several other listings from Jester King beers, to other out of state breweries(BCBCS, The Bruery... ect.) that also magically became unavailable. Pretty weak ass shit, who ever you are...

 

Nothing like public shame to whip someone into shape. I would fear the Freetail ban more personally.

 

Since all of the people in here know freetail, I will be going to brenham at the end of this month, does anyone know the closest place to buy some freetail beers? I would love the help, just got an ananke and loved it would greatly appreciate the help.

 

It is a brewpub, you can only buy their bottles at Freetail in San Antonio.
I really need to make another trip to Freetail, love it, and wish Scott and everyone there the best. Screw Ebay beer buyers

 

I will just have to venture down there then

 

Good for you Scott and shame on the person who listed the beer on Ebay.

 

If more breweries took this issue in a similar way it would create a tidal shift.

Simple solutions exist, many of which are already in place (if not fully realized), for brewery only releases.

I wonder if a brewery could make a purchase of their goods online and upon delivery confiscate their property and refuse payment. I imagine it would have a quick chilling affect the second someone loses their {fill in the blank} brewery release they tried to flip on Ebay and is sent a curt cease and desist order and a ban from entering the brewery property.

Big cheers to Freetail (and a few others, Hill Farmstead and Kern River recently stand out on this issue as well) for your efforts.

 

The seller is NOT part of the regular tasting crew, we were just discussing this problem at Freetail on Saturday. Go get em Scott!

 

im torned about this. on one hand I think freetail is getting screwed on the revenue and texas is getting screwed on the tax of this, however on the other hand I think the person who is willing to buy the beer gets a chance to get some great texas brew. i am torn between this.

 

That person can get the same chance to try the beer by trading for it.

 

Its not always possible to trade for the beer you want, god knows I have been trying to land a black note for a month now. Its a two way street I think, if you cant trade for it and its on Ebay do you automatically ignore this option? Is it fucked up when a little profiteer goes to the brewery for the sole reason to sell on Ebay, of course. The age old argument on here for since I can remember.

 

The main problem is the fact that all breweries have to go through an approval process and pay money to be able to sell alcoholic beverages, whereas, this guy did not have to go through that to make a profit. Items, such as art, are bought and sold for profit all the time, but they are not regulated like alcohol.

 

I was really just talking about the beer in this thread, the $11 shelf beer. I agree with you rare stuff is a different animal. I want CBS badly, but I don't and won't have ammo for it. Does that mean I go to eBay for it? I can't bring myself to pay that much but I would not completely rule out eBay if an exceptional deal came along.

 

Here we go...

BA is the main reason that most beers are even listed on ebay. Who the hell would even know about some random ass beer from a SA brewpub if it wasn't talked about on BA? You can't stop buying/selling on ebay.
Ebay makes a decent amount of income from the fees associated with all of the illegal sales of alcohol (I mean collectable bottles) and I don't think they're going to stop it anytime soon.
La Muerta didn't just start showing up on ebay recently, it's been intermittently posted since the 2010 release, along with other bottles of their wilds... They've also come from a few different sellers in Texas so this is not an isolated incident.

Freetail is free to do what they want, it was their beer at one point, but for some reason I don't think the TABC is going to take the time or effort to stop a rampant activity that is "protected" by ebay rules and regulations.
Maybe the person who has been recently posting is in need of money and one of the few assets he/she has is "over valued" beer. Nobody knows for a fact, but I don't think it's our place to pass judgement that the beers were bought just to "flip". I could be wrong, but either way I don't really give a shit because this doesn't effect me.

Not everyone trades, or wants to put the effort into trading. Sometimes it's easiest for people with money to just hit a button and wait 4 days. Especially with everyone looking to squeeze every last bit of "value" out of their tradable beers.

/rant

 

Beer is only as valuable as what someone is willing to give up to get it.

What I found was really funny about the posting was the fact that this person didn't even have a picture of the beers they were selling, just the fb picture that Freetail uses.

 

If its legal, why doesn't Freetail sale their beers online through their website to only Texas residents?

Probably not legal :-(

 

Maybe they could sell collectable bottles.