Busted up Incoming box

don't trade what you can't replace.

 

It is the shippers responsibility to get your beers to you intact. Plain and simple he should replace anything broken. It gets difficult with one off whales, but with shelf beer this is an open and shut case.

For beers you can't replace, you just have to abort the trade or find something of equal value the trade partner is willing to accept as a replacement.

 

In your scenario, you may not have a second Rare to trade. If that's the case, make sure you pack that thing so well that nothing could happen to it. That's the safest bet. Otherwise, you'd have to come to an agreement with your trading partner on something to replace the Rare. If no agreement can be made, you'd owe him his beer back.

1. Pack really well.
2. Have a replacement bottle on-hand if you suck at packing.
3. Don't drink the other guy's beer until you know your box landed safely just in case you have to send it back.

 

if you are sending something super rare, pack the hell out of it! perhaps even send it on its own double boxed and super bubble wrapped.

 

Let it go, shit happens.















(Shipper owes you 4 beers, assuming all 4 weren't extras. Easy as that)

Why the hypotheticals though? Why not just say what beers were involved?

 

No. If you had 1 of something like Rare and really wanted to trade it, then you would pack the ever-loving hell out of it. 20 layers of bubble wrap and a triple boxing would ensure it survives almost anything short of a steamroller driving over it. That may be excessive, but you get the point.

Also, there are very few beers that are truly unreplaceable. You may need to give up an arm and a leg to replace something, but it is doable. Realistically though, you could always just ship your partners beer back to him and call the trade off, or try to find something else suitable if you can.

 

For trading the whales. Spend the couple extra dollars on a heaver box with more packaging and make sure you package really well.

 

I think what cbeer88 said is spot on. Don't drink the bottles you get until the other trader receives his bottles. That way if bottles do break you can ship your partners beer back to him and all is well.

 

I pack every beer bottle as if it were a whale. I can't stand the idea of sending someone a broken mess.

 

The rare beer hypotheticals are stupid. Any beer, regardless of rarity, is ALWAYS traded at risk, and if both traders aren't aware of that, you're just as stupid.

There are dozens of scenarios, from bottle breaking, box ripping open, leaking, derailment of train, crash of couriers truck, theft..... the list goes on.

If you don't think that you are risking the loss of the bottles on both ends, then you shouldn't trade.

That being said, IF the senders bottle breaks or is otherwise lost in transit, then either the trade is negated by the return of bottles to parties, and chalk it up as a loss for the sender with the bad luck (this is why you wait to drink your received beers until yours make it, ALWAYS). Other negotiations or replacements can be made to remedy the lost bottle; if it can't be replaced directly by a like bottle of the same beer, then others amounts of equal rarity or volume, agreed upon by the receiver, should be sent.

If your bottles didn't break going to him, then he should replace those that broke. If it were a rare beer, the same should happen, but just understand the risk with EVERY trade, regardless of rarity.

 

All negotiated beers (does not include extras) should arrive to the trade partner in sealed and drinkable condition. Anything short of that will need to be replaced or worked out amongst both parties involved. Quite simple, really.

 

If I've got back-up bottles, I pretty much half-ass the packing.

 

I love trading dangerously. Sometimes I'll contact people off the bad traders list for same-time shipping trades. And one time, I was feeling really risky and I told a guy to just send whatever.