Please do not buy our beers on eBay

LadyOfMuchBeer · May 30, 2012

FreetailBrewing said: ↑

It has been brought to my attention that someone is selling, or trying to sell, our beers on eBay. I heard about it with Ananke (which we still have bottles of sitting on our shelves) and I found a listing for a 2011 La Muerta with a starting bid of $49.99.

Please do not buy these. First of all, La Muerta isn't worth $49.99. It's worth exactly $11+tax, the price we sell it for. I highly advise that no one ever pay a cent more (and there are no competitive issues with me saying that, since we are the only ones legally able to sell it).

Second of all, this is flat out f'ed up and I'm fully in support of TABC going after this person for the unlicensed sale of alcohol. If I find out who you are, I will make sure you are banned from ever buying our bottles again.

We take great pride in what we do and hate to see our hard work tarnished by someone trying to make a quick buck. I have no problem with the trading community (so long as traders don't begin to crowd out our local customers) and in fact am very flattered to see our beers end up all over the country. But when someone buys our beers to try to flip them from financial gain, you've completely gone against what we are about.

That ends my breaking diatribe. I now return you to normally scheduled forum.

Scott Metzger
Freetail Brewing Co.
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I would recommend that brewers/owners/managers/anyone else who does not support their beer being sold on EBay contact EBay concerning the situation. It is unlawful that people are reselling it. Honestly, they do NOT have the legal right to resell the beer and if y'all have a legal dept, I would greatly suggest you have them formally contact EBay on your behalf.
Everyone seems to forget how very illegal it is to SELL beer without license. Just wait until TABC catches an individual. BTW, violating state liquor laws can often be considered a federal crime. People who ARE licensed get a minimum 6 mos. jail time for selling outside the lines of the law.

H0rnedFr0gs · May 30, 2012

LadyOfMuchBeer said: ↑

I would recommend that brewers/owners/managers/anyone else who does not support their beer being sold on EBay contact EBay concerning the situation. It is unlawful that people are reselling it. Honestly, they do NOT have the legal right to resell the beer and if y'all have a legal dept, I would greatly suggest you have them formally contact EBay on your behalf.
Everyone seems to forget how very illegal it is to SELL beer without license. Just wait until TABC catches an individual. BTW, violating state liquor laws can often be considered a federal crime. People who ARE licensed get a minimum 6 mos. jail time for selling outside the lines of the law.
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this.

DonD · May 30, 2012

cpinto6 said: ↑

I'm afraid you'll only see more and more of your beers end up on eBay. If you haven't looked at the trade forum lately or ever then let me tell you, its a shit storm. You say Ananke is still available on your shelves yet the one or two offers I've seen and asked about have gone nowhere after I say I'm not giving up my Kate the Great for it. Trading is becoming a huge pain in the ass so realistically, if I really wanted a bottle of your beer without giving up more than a fair exchange I'm stuck with trying to buy it on eBay or flying out there to buy it which is way more expensive than eBay.
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If you are really interested in trading for some Ananke, I can try to get some this weekend and work out a reasonable trade with you. $4$ locals works for me. If interested, message me and I'll get back to you.

BruceBruce · May 31, 2012

atxdelivery said: ↑

Its like downloading MP3's back in the day. New sites would pop up then when threatened then pop up again with a new name. Then when laws are enacted after years of legal battles there would be a profit share with the artist, aka brewers for the sale of their property. In fact this gave me an idea.
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Lol are we creating a napster here, or kazzaa

bogwart · May 31, 2012

atxdelivery said: ↑

Its like downloading MP3's back in the day. New sites would pop up then when threatened then pop up again with a new name. Then when laws are enacted after years of legal battles there would be a profit share with the artist, aka brewers for the sale of their property. In fact this gave me an idea.
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Apple probably has an app for that.

canadianghetto · May 31, 2012

They do: http://beerstreetjournal.com/if-you-watch-only-one-ipad-beer-trick-this-year-make-it-this-one-video/

bccocx · Jun 1, 2012

I wish there was a way to easily report these users to TABC/eBay (or connect the two groups)

For example this person really pissed me off: http://www.ebay.com/sch/mattipants13/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686

dumptruck81 · Jun 1, 2012

There is a way to alert ebay I'm just not sure how. This guy doesn't even have the usual bullshit ebay rules listed.

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