White chocolate/chocolate rain/black Tuesday

This sounds a lot like that plan where a guy ended up making a series of trades where he started with a dollar and ended up with a house. I don't think it quite works that way with beer trading, especially after you factor in shipping.

This seems like a great way to be the next jojo....

 

Someone should try the beer trading equivalent of that. Start with a 6 month old can of Bud Light and end up with a Rare.

 

*eating popcorn*

 

Whats the rush?

 

Of the three, white chocolate is probably the most drinkable as of right now, and a damn fine beer.

Im willing to bet you seriously re-evaluate your willingness to trade it away once you actually try it. Regarding black Tuesday, you should have a reasonable chance of landing one if you have the trade ammo to land 2x white chocolate. Regarding chocolate rain, it's probably a little late to try and snag a batch two at this point. Pure speculation, but if next year is similar to this year, it should rerelease around march and be much easier to land.

In the intervening three months, do your best to befriend someone in the reserve society (perhaps the person sending you two white chocolates?). Step one would of course be killing them with extras (seriously. Send them a box so heavy they throw their back out picking it up. Or give them a wild animal as an extra, that could probably kill them too).

 

It's like trading draft picks in Madden Franchise Mode, apparently. And stupac is right that the costs get enormous.

 

guys how many times do i have to uptrade before i can get rare?

 

Hey buddie that WC is so fine...imma sit on Santa's lap this xmas and share that WC with him.

Get those BCBS variants from your area and work your way up!

 

You have Bourbon County Coffee, and Cherry Rye listed as beers you have.
When you get serious about wanting wanting Chocolate Rain or Bourbon County Vanilla, that Rye will be put on the table.

You have the beers necessary to get your "big wants" you're just holding those ransom to try to trade lesser desirable beers in terms of "trade value" thusly you're trying to "Win" the trade.


That's what I do. Don't sip on my kool-aid bro!

 

You should have this open in a word document at all times on your computer, because honestly I feel I have seen this posted multiple times in just the past few days (all new traders, coincidentally many from Illinois...ha).

As Chadquest said yesterday, good luck trying to slay the whale's single handed. The great point he made (and others have) is make friends with both people around your area, and get regular trade partners. I have been able to try more crazy rare beers not by me PERSONALLY acquiring them, but due to the generosity of surprise packages from long time traders and/or the insane generosity of my fellow Chicago beer friends.

I understand where you are coming from - the world of craft beer is new and exciting and you want to try it all. Just don't think you can get to try everything overnight and realize if you make threads about getting one beer to just try and up-trade it for another, it is somewhat off putting to fellow BA's (at least it is to me). It is not always about maximizing return.

 

Why not just trade the extra White Chocolate for some other beer you really want to try of a similar price/quality/rarity? I'm sure you could score something nice with it that you haven't had before rather than trying to work out some trade for Chocolate Rain that isn't going to happen unless you get really lucky.

 

It's so funny to see the responses of BAs in here who were putting up very similar threads when they first joined..... The BA maturation process.....

 

What is CR trading for? cracked my last one this weekend and now I wantz mor!

 

I would definitely give up my Rare for a BT, CR, & WC!

 

What's this thread going for?

OP, why are you offering to retrade a beer for another beer from the same brewery? Sense isn't being made here. Why not just offer what you are offering for the White Chocolate for that CR? C'mon man.

How do so many people struggle with trading?