Trade Profiteering?

I've given away 200 bottle releases for nothing too. What's your point? I trade for beers I want regardless of rarity too. But sometimes what you want is rare. Imagine that. I've done trades with well over 100 unique users on here without any gripes about how I go about things...and as such...I have a ton of steady trading partners. I must be doing something right.

 

In summary: If you offer up a ton of good beer for one great bottle...there are no issues. If you're on the other side and ask for a few good bottles for your one great bottle...you're profiteering.

Everyone got that?

 

Duh. Where the fuck have you been?

 

I've been tied to a flagpole getting flogged by the holier than thou's. It's tough to concentrate through all the hate, man.

 

I could care less what you trade you or anyone else trades their beer for. As I said, we're all consenting adults here. I was just pointing out the hilarious hypocrisy of your self-righteousness.

You can try to decouple the dollar values associated with the beer we trade, but it does not change the fact that when a trade is made for $150 worth of rare beer for $50 worth of rare beer, that in essence $150 is being traded for $50. And again, there's nothing wrong this at all, it's just hilarious when someone who engages in this sort of thing brags about how beneficent they are with their beer and how it important it is not to profit-take off of the beer we buy.

I do say never a penny more! Hahahaahah.

I will admit, however, that your heavy handed cursing in all of your "I doth protest" posts makes for a very compelling argument in whatever you are trying to prove.

And actually, I think I remember your KBS post now - weren't you the one trading it "for a friend"?

 

No...it's not for a friend. It's for a relative. I didn't attend DLD. I don't have a BAVDL to trade of my own...or I'd be doing it for something other than KBS. But that's what he wants...so that's what he got.

I wasn't bragging at all. I was stating. There's a difference. Again...a lot of this boils down to you perceiving things however you chose to. There's nothing that can be done to change that. I'm simply saying I don't believe in making people pay more than I've paid. When it comes to trading/bartering...I've been on both ends of giving up quality and quantity for a single bottle...and I believe when two people...consenting, intelligent adults...arrive upon an agreement that they're both happy with...it doesn't really take a 3rd, 4th, and 5th party to give a recap of what they feel is right or appropriate.

I just don't understand how participating in trades on both sides of such an equation...in any way, shape, or form...impacts the way I approach muling, whereby I only charge those I'm muling for exactly what it costs me.

At any rate, this is a terribly derailed thread, and I apologize for my contribution to it. This will be my last response to it.

 

you said and I quote to GhettoFabulous...

"I've never seen anyone offer extremely limited beer, $4$ for widely distributed shelf beer. If you have, feel free to show some examples."​

So I replied directly to you and gave several examples that I know are true because I did them. ​

"Ok.I have traded 200-1000 bottle release beers for RR sours and Founders 750s like Bolt Cutter and CBS $4$ beacuse I wanted them."​

Now your reply is "what is your point?"

I assumed my point was to give an example of extremely limited beers being traded $4$ for widely distributed shelf beers like KBS and similar. I may have been off the mark?

Damn man.

 

Apologies. So the BAVDL should have traded for 2 4-packs. Sorry man. Anyone know a good hangman in the 19462 zip?

 

Wait...you said you wanted to trade the BAVDL for a group of bottles at first for Philly beer week in that thread that was posted earlier. Then all of a sudden you changed it to it was your Uncle's bottle and it was traded for a case of KBS. So which is it? Seems like you have a web of lies and you keep getting caught in it. I actually look forward to your posts and the lulz they bring on these days. Please...continue.

 

He also has offered to trade certain bottles and later been seeking those same bottles. It's pretty funny. Definitely one of the main sources of entertainment on this board to follow his ISO:FT's.

 

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

That is a fact. At the time my uncle'd talked about coming out for beer week. We'd have enjoyed whatever it brought back during PBW. But...like the trade...things fell through as he got busy at work. He still wanted to trade the bottle for stuff he'd enjoy, but without PBW, he didn't want to be as adventurous and asked I trade it for something he knows he likes, and asked what I could get him where KBS was concerned and I told him I could probably get him a case. There's no web of lies...you just don't know what the fuck's going on...and quite frankly, why should you?

The important thing is that you "lulz." As such, I'll continue so that you are amused.

 

Yeah...that happens a lot. The beers that I like, I have a tendency to trade for a lot of them. I get to enjoy them frequently, and if there's something else that interests me, and someone's looking for one of those bottles...I can still give one or two up and have plenty left to enjoy. It may not be conventional, may not make sense to most, and you personally might not be able to wrap your head around the concept, but it works for me, continues to work for me...and that's all that really matters. And as said before...I'm here to entertain. So you can join that other fellow in the lulz. Morning, noon, and night, JRam.

 

Huh? I thought you live for this stuff. I somewhat recall how excited you were when the second of those now-deleted "scumbag" threads came out.

 

You can have nice things, man. Just not too many. Not without running it by the armchair trading police around here first.

 

Live for? Nah. Amused by at work? Sure.

EDIT: besides, that stuff actually has real drama (or as "real" as anything related to online beer can be), whereas this is just the usual arguing over valuation.

 

I guess this a bad time to ask for an invite to your Facebook group?

 

It's a good group of people. Real. No time's a bad time to get an invite to that. I'm aware you're being facetious, however.

 

i just did an in person trade with someone a couple months back that involved $4$ shelf beer from a couple different breweries for a vertical of east end gratitude. boom.
in person, i repeat. the dude could have walked 10 feet over from where i met him and bought what the trade entailed. sorta. except that i went to multiple shops for a better variety.

that dude was awesome.

 

Yeah...shit like that certainly doesn't happen every day. Mighty fine gesture on his part.