Listen to this Tap Crap!

Duly noted and edited. Had a few too many tonight and this story (plus her sanctimonious replies) set me off.

 

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Other than that, great post. I thought the same thing.

 

Boycotting the bar seems unwarranted, but I'd inform the owner of what happened.

 

Sounds good. Will do the same if I can.

 

I'm most interested to know:

1. How she got even 6 bottles back.
2. What the owner of the bar thinks.
3. What Cigar City thinks/

 

As much as I want to believe the carry-on thing is a total lie, the TSA and their security theatre is such an inept operation I suppose I could see it sneaking through. One hell of a risk to take though, just to profiteer off some beer bottles.

 

It could be worse, you could be the guy that just dropped $200 on one.

 

I can understand where you are coming from, I dont think I could turn down money like that either. But it sounds like you had agreed to get this bottle for whats his face here, and probably wouldnt have had it without this agreement. The right thing would be to at least split the profits with the dude who is supposed to be the rightful owner of this brew. To take his beer, and sell it and keep everything for yourself, well you cant get more scummy than that.

 

I call bullshit, nobody in FL would pay that. The few sites that do allow people to sell beer have beers of much higher value for less money. Also, your story doesn't jive about not having a carry on and bringing back six bottles. This whole statement makes you sound worse, not better.

 

Hey there everyone, I am the crappy person who bought AJ's bottle for $200. But I turned around and sold it to someone else for $500. Please dont take it out on some bar I dont know of and dont care about. In the end, please hate me, ridicule me if that pleases you but please dont throw eggs at me.

 

did he at least get his $20 back

 

so then what youre saying is you made enough money off two bottles to fly back to tampa in order to hook up the op AND still be able to keep those two bottles for yourself?

 

this dead horse is taking a beating but I think if he had given her the $20 upfront and she used said $20 to buy the beer and turn around and sell it..total dik move...i can only assume she had to check the bag on the way home which is $25 and then found a way to make some bucks and decided to not hook this dude up. not cool but nothing worth having a temper tantrum about...its just beer

 

Integrity and the value of your word are worth a lot more than a few sweaty bucks Lauren. Once you cross that line and prove yourself to be a liar it is very difficult to ever get your good name back. The scope of the lie is nowhere near as important as the lie itself. The fact that you would compromise your integrity over so little is actually much worse. If you didn't want to bring the guy the bottle you never should have told him you would. Once you did you should have felt the commitment. If you will lie about something as small as this you will lie about much more. I can't speak for your town but in CLT word travels very fast and a lot of folks would look at you differently.

 

-- How did she get the bottles on board, you ask? --

Simple. If you follow her on social media, you'll see that she was on a private jet for that trip. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see her scrambling to hide that evidence.

Second, reselling craft beer (and in her case, LOCAL craft beer) is a huge dick move and highly frowned upon by anyone in the craft beer community with a shred of dignity and decency. There's this thing called "beer karma" and right now Lauren is neck deep in the negative.

Also, who in gods name buys BA Big Sound for $150-$200? Sounds like her kind of beer people are as awful as she is.

While Tap42 seems to have nothing to do with this black market ******, I would assume her trip was business related and if this is how she's going to abuse that sort of inside resource, I hope she's fired AND banished from Cigar City.

 

I would not employee someone who acts this way. Like everyone else said if your integrity is worth such a small amount of money I would not even trust you counting my cash register. However there is one thing that has not been answered. Is she at least hot?

 

Lulz.. Just do a Google Image search of her.

 

'Insert joke about Billy Idol scalping the op's beer here'

 

Hey, I'm all for weighing in on the beer transaction but this tearing on someone's appearance is starting to feel like bullying. Not cool. /endthread