All Cantillon & 3 Fonteinen pulled from Ebay

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Message phaleslu P admin beers 16529 º places 792 º 15:30 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by Mavajo Okay, in fairness, I’m assuming the RB trading community at large is similar to the BA trading community, especially since there’s significant overlap between the two. I’m a BA regular posting here because the topic interests me and its verboten to discuss eBay over there. Also, yes, obviously there are people on the up-and-up. But I’m making an observation based on the trading community at large. They’re much different communities, in trading and in many other ways. Get to know it before being so critical of it. I’ve done 100+ trades here and 30+ on BA. The level of hype, panic, gouging, underhanded dealing is far, far higher on BA. This is a more relaxed place that has seen increased trade traffic and some silliness after an influx of BA users alienated and restricted by the Alstroms. Most trading here is done between established partners. It takes a while. By in large, I’ve experienced nothing but fairness and generosity from traders here. I wouldn’t have over 100 trades otherwise.
Message Sean9689 beers 286 º places 12 º 15:42 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by craytonic Anyone tried mybeercellar.com ? Places like this will be the "next eBay" I imagine...
Message b3shine P beers 12178 º places 372 º 15:47 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by phaleslu They’re much different communities, in trading and in many other ways. This is a fact. And that’s why RB is home for me (along with everyone else in our tasting group).

Message MacBoost beers 2074 º places 37 º 15:50 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by craytonic Anyone tried mybeercellar.com ? http://www.mybeercellar.com/?itm=234 $180? R U Jokin or wat?
Message Mavajo 15:54 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by phaleslu Originally posted by Mavajo Okay, in fairness, I’m assuming the RB trading community at large is similar to the BA trading community, especially since there’s significant overlap between the two. I’m a BA regular posting here because the topic interests me and its verboten to discuss eBay over there. Also, yes, obviously there are people on the up-and-up. But I’m making an observation based on the trading community at large. They’re much different communities, in trading and in many other ways. Get to know it before being so critical of it. I’ve done 100+ trades here and 30+ on BA. The level of hype, panic, gouging, underhanded dealing is far, far higher on BA. This is a more relaxed place that has seen increased trade traffic and some silliness after an influx of BA users alienated and restricted by the Alstroms. Most trading here is done between established partners. It takes a while. By in large, I’ve experienced nothing but fairness and generosity from traders here. I wouldn’t have over 100 trades otherwise. Based on everything I’ve heard from other sources and seen with my own eyes, you’re wearing some rose colored glasses.
Message kryptic 15:57 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by monsterzero Why aren’t buyers vilified the way that sellers are? Because the small but vocal anti-ebay crowd know that many if not most of the buyers on ebay are well repected, long time members of ratebeer that they would never dare speak out against, so they blame the evil faceless sellers instead. Its all pretty funny really.
Message iowaherkeye beers 2703 º places 29 º 15:59 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by Mavajo Originally posted by phaleslu Originally posted by Mavajo Okay, in fairness, I’m assuming the RB trading community at large is similar to the BA trading community, especially since there’s significant overlap between the two. I’m a BA regular posting here because the topic interests me and its verboten to discuss eBay over there. Also, yes, obviously there are people on the up-and-up. But I’m making an observation based on the trading community at large. They’re much different communities, in trading and in many other ways. Get to know it before being so critical of it. I’ve done 100+ trades here and 30+ on BA. The level of hype, panic, gouging, underhanded dealing is far, far higher on BA. This is a more relaxed place that has seen increased trade traffic and some silliness after an influx of BA users alienated and restricted by the Alstroms. Most trading here is done between established partners. It takes a while. By in large, I’ve experienced nothing but fairness and generosity from traders here. I wouldn’t have over 100 trades otherwise. Based on everything I’ve heard from other sources and seen with my own eyes, you’re wearing some rose colored glasses. I disagree.

Message brokensail P admin beers 21480 º places 1691 º 16:13 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by BlackIPA Originally posted by craytonic Anyone tried mybeercellar.com ? http://www.mybeercellar.com/?itm=234 $180? R U Jokin or wat? That’s the first batch, so I guess it’s moar wales?
Message brokensail P admin beers 21480 º places 1691 º 16:20 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by b3shine Originally posted by Mavajo Originally posted by phaleslu They’re much different communities, in trading and in many other ways. Get to know it before being so critical of it. I’ve done 100+ trades here and 30+ on BA. The level of hype, panic, gouging, underhanded dealing is far, far higher on BA. This is a more relaxed place that has seen increased trade traffic and some silliness after an influx of BA users alienated and restricted by the Alstroms. Most trading here is done between established partners. It takes a while. By in large, I’ve experienced nothing but fairness and generosity from traders here. I wouldn’t have over 100 trades otherwise. Based on everything I’ve heard from other sources and seen with my own eyes, you’re wearing some rose colored glasses. You’re a moron. When I want to hear from an asshole, I’ll fart. There are certainly some morons on both sites. There are also plenty of really great people on both sites. I’ve completed a significant number of trades on both sites, though I would say many more on BA since I didn’t really start trading on RB until I really started slowing down on it. People’s generosity has been about equal on both sites. Things are just a lot different between the two for a lot of obvious reasons: more people posting trade threads daily, different user mentalities, experience level of membership base, age level of membership base...I could go on. One isn’t inherently better than the other, because some people really prefer the level of action that BA has, that so many trades are for rare beers, that so much trading is done publicly, etc. Some people prefer the more behind the scenes, laid back, relationship based atmosphere of RB.
Message b3shine P beers 12178 º places 372 º 16:30 Tue 7/31/2012 Originally posted by womencantsail Some people prefer the more behind the scenes, laid back, relationship based atmosphere of RB. BA is a shit show. Regardless of how diplomatic our admin (and especially joet) are when referencing it - and I commend them for it - the other site is a cesspool chock full of the lowest common denominators. My wife often says ratebeer is like a male soap opera. And in some ways she’s right. But if that’s true, BA is Jerry Springer.