All Cantillon & 3 Fonteinen pulled from Ebay

Originally posted by DocLock
I want ALL beer sales removed from eBay, and my understanding was that this was happening as we speak. When rare beers become an eBay commodity, just like rare toys or action figures or comic books, then the bottom-feeders come out of the woodwork, many of who have no respect or understanding of the beers they are selling, they do not work gainfully for a living, they just want to make a quick buck. These scumbags are the same people fighting kids in Toys-R-Us for the limited edition Hulk Hogan figure or the limited Matchbox car. These assholes, and those that choose to defend them, can fuck off as far as I am concerned. This is not capitalism. It is dickball.

Please tell us how you feel about the buyers.

Originally posted by DocLock
I want ALL beer sales removed from eBay, and my understanding was that this was happening as we speak. When rare beers become an eBay commodity, just like rare toys or action figures or comic books, then the bottom-feeders come out of the woodwork, many of who have no respect or understanding of the beers they are selling, they do not work gainfully for a living, they just want to make a quick buck. These scumbags are the same people fighting kids in Toys-R-Us for the limited edition Hulk Hogan figure or the limited Matchbox car. These assholes, and those that choose to defend them, can fuck off as far as I am concerned. This is not capitalism. It is dickball.

There are plenty of good thoughts throughout this thread presenting alternate views on this, though i’m guessing you haven’t read them.

Dare i ask what your thoughts are on trading?

I think a lot of people don’t realize that not all beers on Ebay sell for outrageously high prices. All three Baladin Xyuauyu barleywines sold on Ebay for the price of one of them at my local store (which still had it in stock at the time). Bottles of beers such as Newport Storm 06 sold for as little as $1 a few months back. Those don’t catch headlines like $1500+ for one bottle of Cantillon Festbier.

I’m just confused as to why only some beer was pulled. Shouldn’t this be an all or nothing deal?

Originally posted by DocLock
I want ALL beer sales removed from eBay, and my understanding was that this was happening as we speak. When rare beers become an eBay commodity, just like rare toys or action figures or comic books, then the bottom-feeders come out of the woodwork, many of who have no respect or understanding of the beers they are selling, they do not work gainfully for a living, they just want to make a quick buck. These scumbags are the same people fighting kids in Toys-R-Us for the limited edition Hulk Hogan figure or the limited Matchbox car. These assholes, and those that choose to defend them, can fuck off as far as I am concerned. This is not capitalism. It is dickball.

The scenarios you describe are ugly but supply and demand is pure capitalism, not liking it doesn’t make it other than what it is.

And is it always a quick buck? If someone drives for hours and lines up for more?

Originally posted by daknole
I’m just confused as to why only some beer was pulled. Shouldn’t this be an all or nothing deal?

Trying to stay out of this whole argument largely, but it sounds like many of the brewers who were removed have spearheaded or at least participated in the action of getting their beers removed.

Originally posted by daknole
I’m just confused as to why only some beer was pulled. Shouldn’t this be an all or nothing deal?

I think eBay depends on user reports to yank auctions, I’m not sure how intelligent their software is to filter out listings as they are added to the site. I could be wrong though.

Originally posted by JMerritt

Originally posted by daknole
I’m just confused as to why only some beer was pulled. Shouldn’t this be an all or nothing deal?

I think eBay depends on user reports to yank auctions, I’m not sure how intelligent their software is to filter out listings as they are added to the site. I could be wrong though.

I’m no expert on eBay’s software capabilities, but I would hope a $56 billion dollar tech company could wipe out these auctions completely if it wanted to do so. (I honestly don’t know how it works and I’d be curious to hear from a more tech-savvy RBian.) But the preponderance of active auctions makes it seem like eBay aren’t really applying themselves.

Originally posted by tyler_mn
I blame it all on Marc Nolan.

This.

Originally posted by DocLock
I want ALL beer sales removed from eBay, and my understanding was that this was happening as we speak. When rare beers become an eBay commodity, just like rare toys or action figures or comic books, then the bottom-feeders come out of the woodwork, many of who have no respect or understanding of the beers they are selling, they do not work gainfully for a living, they just want to make a quick buck. These scumbags are the same people fighting kids in Toys-R-Us for the limited edition Hulk Hogan figure or the limited Matchbox car. These assholes, and those that choose to defend them, can fuck off as far as I am concerned. This is not capitalism. It is dickball.

You are only addressing the seller side. I don’t give a shit about how you feel about the sellers on eBay. This IS capitalism, and if a beer is available for sale that I wish to purchase and I have no other means of purchasing it (because we cannot all drive/fly to where rare beer comes from, and because not all of us have decent trading stock) then I WILL purchase it if I am financially able to do so. If eBay wishes to flirt with illegality that’s their business. If I wish to purchase beer from eBay that’s my business. If you wish to hold "rare" beer to some lofty personal aesthetic in the marketplace that’s your business.

I’ve never purchased any beer from an eBay seller, but as I’ve said earlier in this thread, if my access to great beer were to suddenly dry up, I would consider it in a heartbeat. I will get my hands on good beer by any means necessary, and who are you to deny me that? Maybe the government can deny me access via shipping laws etc, but I’d take my chances if I had to, and it is my right to do so.