Seeing this was an international trade, that would involve customs potentially checking out the contents of the package, thus involving another party in this. If the customs agent is a beer ner... er, rare ale enthusiast, then those bottles would be easily replaced with a quick trip over to the BevMo and a 3rd party becomes pretty damn happy with his job while violence and chaos erupts over at the beer forums.
Now the million dollar question... was this shipped from Mexico?
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No, customs would just steal them...period. They would not go to that trouble. Believe me, i have had it happen many times to many countries...
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what he said.
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Alrighty.... but I think it’s still a valid point in any case. I mean we got 2 heroes of beer trading here both claiming innocence along with a brewery to back that up.
Maybe UPS/FedEx, along the same vein.
Or maybe it was a totally lopsided trade and dude wants his beers back. Sounds like a lot of effort, especially in the reputable standings of the parties involved, but hell, that would be just as tough to disprove.
Time to get Shag and Scooby on this one.
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so 6 trades makes someone a "beer trading hero?"
cuz it takes 1,000 ratings to make them a beer god.
i thought of other reasons why this may have happened,but if the bottles were numbered,then there is really no way around it.
just one question,was the handwriting the same on the fake bottles?compare them to a real bottle and that might help.
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i guess this just answered my question cuz the real bottles are marked with a grey sharpie,not white.
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Thats kinda splittin’ hairs Jake. I thought they were white until I just looked again.
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It was not an international trade as alafito has a shipping address in cali. and having a postal/custom employee switch the bottles is perhaps the craziest explanation i’ve heard of.
also, the hand writing for the fake and real bottles does not match and it is clearly a different type of pen/marker.
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Indeed, slack is the answer and Bob will cure all in time.
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thats what i figured.i was a graff writer for 5 years when i was younger so that would be one of the first things i would notice.
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