Rediculous Price post.

Rediculous

 

Agree. Totally rediculous

 

You saw CBS for $200 in a retail store?

 

Honestly, that's something I would have reported to Founders. I've seen it done before with other breweries if they find out stuff like that, they'll ensure those stores do not receive anymore of their products.

 

did it end up selling at 200? any idea?

 

the thing that makes this all the more ridiculous is that its not even that good of a beer.

 

I'm not sure if anyone can make a decent comparison to that CBS price. I saw bottles of 09 Black Ops for $46.99 just a few months ago. I bet they're still there on the shelf too.

 

would that have been at Perfect pour ?

 

I'm so appalled.

 

I was at a shop that was selling Bell's 25th Anniversary for $25 for a 12 oz. Managed to get it at another shop for I think $9.

 

I saw a Tactical Nuclear Penguin for $100-something. Not sure if that was going price though due to the rarity. 12oz bottle!

 

I saw it at around that same price in Huny Valley

 

What is more ridiculous is that there are those who are more than willing to pay those prices and justify the retailers practices.

 

I've seen TNP go for everywhere between $70 and $100; $100 is definitely on the high end of the spectrum, but it's just a flat-out expensive-ass beer.

 

Ain't supply & demand a bitch? Beer is generally a relatively low-priced luxury good (i.e., even expensive beer is cheap compared to expensive wine or whisky), so it doesn't take ALL that much in the way of disposable income to make an interested beer lover able to pay prices far above MSRP in order to obtain a beer that's in scarce supply. I actually don't think it's ridiculous at all that there are a few score (or a few hundred) well-heeled beer geeks out there willing to pay top dollar.

The only way prices will come down at the high end is if brewers start producing more (cf. the case of Black Tuesday). If Founders had put out 50,000 bottles of CBS instead of 10,000, I guarantee no one would have been trying to sell it for $200.

 

I got it at $28.99 in Anne Arundel

 

These type of situations you can look at two way, philosophically or economically.

In terms of economics, viewing beer as a commodity, it makes perfect sense for a retailer to maximize profits. Customers are obviously willing to pay the prices so it does not seem to be hurting their business at all. Viewing this from an economic stand point I very much agree with you.

I tend to look at these situations philosophically. The brewers had an intended market and price for each beer they produce, I think it can show a lack of respect to the breweries to sell a product so far above what they wished it to be sold for. Purchasing beer at these prices does not benefit the community as a whole. It is the philosophic side where I have an issue. I completely understand that this is a problem that will not go away, I have accepted that but just do not like it.