Ten Fidy on ebay

[vadavid]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oskar-Blues-Ten-Fidy-not-dark-lord-stone-lost-abbey_W0QQitemZ300191315022QQihZ020QQcategoryZ563Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Now that's just plain silly. I know that Ten Fidy was shipped to VA last week. I haven't seen it on store shelves yet though. I'll wager it sells for less than $51/can. :-)

Criminy!

[newportstorm]

HA! Congrats to the seller for making a nice $50+ profit.

Gotta love this line: "You are bidding on an extremely rare sealed, full, and never opened can of Oskar Blues Ten Fidy (12oz can) which has been stored below 55 degrees F and in a dark cellar."

A can, stored in a dark cellar. Wow! Put it in a box and bury it 6 feet deep for the grand slam of light protection!

[beerking]

I picked up a 4 pack for ~$14, IIRC. Plus, I did not have to pay any shipping. Gave 2 to a friend because I did not really think it was that good.

[D0nc0smic]

The wine store down the street from me ( in Arlington) has had it for at least 3 weeks. It was ok, but a little too sweet for me, even for an Imperial stout.

[MeridianFC]

I don't care for any of the Oskar Blues stuff.

[iahebert]

There's a store here in Redmond called Malt & Vine, and of the appx 900+ beers they have for sale, they have the Ten Fidy. I actually do enjoy it quite a bit. On tap--even better.

Don't know if its worth $50/can, or ever $5/$6 per can.

[Insidious Rex]

Ebay is doing an enormous disservice to true beer connoisseurs because its creating a limited release culture simply designed for mass profit. Its one thing to collect cans and such but its turning the FRESH beer industry into a profit exploitation industry on the part of individual resellers and now even some businesses. That cant be a good thing. If someone with a lot of money in Duluth wants something you can only get for a short time in say San Diego they are going to buy it on Ebay for 8 times as much as its worth. And that’s going to encourage more people to go out of their way to buy the limited stuff and its popularity will sore and that will push more breweries to make more limited release beers because of the demand and the marketing aspects of having something that popular. Id rather have the breweries focus on decent beer most people can get a hold of. I don’t really mind that theres stuff on the west coast I almost never see over here. Just makes it all the more cool when I actually get over there and get some. I don’t want the craft beer industry to turn into a collectors industry. Reminds me of what happened to baseball and football cards in the 90’s when they started putting rare inserts in some packs and the kids no longer wanted the regular cards just the inserts and now the regular cards are worth nothing. In fact some card companies don’t even make them anymore… JUST rare inserts that hit the market at elevated prices. Lets hope that doesnt happen with beer...

[newportstorm]

ebay is a tool. It does nothing to help/hurt beer. The number of rare beers that are selling on ebay is infinitesimal in comparison to the number of craft beers on the market. Big beers get big hype. Hype sells. If some dolt is willing to pay $100, $200, $1000 for a bottle of past its prime rare beer, so be it. If not ebay, there would be some other medium to step in and help facilitate the sale.

I think this is a lot of worrying about a very small "problem". The aisles at my beer store keep getting more packed with beer by the month. Now that (too much beer getting stale for lack of turnover) is a bigger problem, imo.

[beerking]

You should read Tomme Arthur's article at the back of the previous issue of Beer Advocate, wherein he decries just such abuses by fleabay. The article is titled "F ebay" (he did not abbreviate).

[beerking]

I don't care for any of the Oskar Blues stuff.

While I do not care for the TenFidy, and find it has way too much fusel for me, I LOVE the Old Chub! I also think the Pale is good and well balanced, and the Gordon is VERY good.

[newportstorm]

You should read Tomme Arthur's article at the back of the previous issue of Beer Advocate, wherein he decries just such abuses by fleabay. The article is titled "F ebay" (he did not abbreviate).

Read it. Don't agree. Tomme Arthur was paid for his beer and they are in high demand. Aside from shipping beer w/o a license to do so (which many of us do plenty of), I'm not buying any argument against this practice.

[MeridianFC]

While I do not care for the TenFidy, and find it has way too much fusel for me, I LOVE the Old Chub! I also think the Pale is good and well balanced, and the Gordon is VERY good.

The Pale well balanced? It may be many things but that is not a term I'd ever use in concert with that brew. Just my take.

[Insidious Rex]

ebay is a tool. It does nothing to help/hurt beer. The number of rare beers that are selling on ebay is infinitesimal in comparison to the number of craft beers on the market.

But the number of not at all rare beers (dogfish head stuff, lost abbey stuff, alesmith stuff, hopslam, alpha king, tenfidy..) selling for ridiculous amounts of money on Ebay is growing all the time. People have seen the Dark Lords and Darkness’s getting three figures and realize hey what do I have in the fridge. I bet a could make $200 selling this six pack of regional beer that I can easily buy for $10 myself. And nitwits buy EACH bottle for $40 a pop. And in the past year or so Ive noticed a lessening in the availability of these midrange beers on online retail sites. I used to get my out of area stuff that way a lot. Now its harder despite the growing craft industry. I wonder if its because people buy them and resell them on Ebay.

Do a Google “Shopping” search using the string “Three Floyds” and basically everything you get is from Ebay. It used to be there would be a half dozen listings of decent 3F beer offered by various online outlets (Liquid Solutions, Globalbeer, etc.) with figures of $6.99, $8.99, maybe $10 next to them. Now its virtually all Ebay links with prices of like $75 or up for a Gumball for christs sakes. Im sorry but that cant be a good trend in my opinion. Granted I don’t think you are going to see Sierra Nevada scrap their pale ale to devote all their fermenters to some rare monster thing but it just rubs me the wrong way when I see relatively cheap beer going for insane prices. Ive also noticed its impacted some of my trading connections.

If not ebay, there would be some other medium to step in and help facilitate the sale.

But Ebay is special because it simply opens up the possibilities to millions of people with a credit card. Before Ebay you didn’t have one tenth of one percent of people with the types of connections necessary to secure a rare bottle of beer that comes out one day a year in one spot in the world. Now thanks to Ebay everyone has access to Dark Lords and Westys and whatever. And its turned those kinds of beers into collecting items and lesser beers (like tenfiddy) into overpriced jokes.

But Im just soap boxing here...

[beerking]

It used to be there would be a half dozen listings of decent 3F beer offered by various online outlets (Liquid Solutions, Globalbeer, etc.) with figures of $6.99, $8.99, maybe $10 next to them. Now its virtually all Ebay links with prices of like $75 or up for a Gumball for christs sakes.

I have been using Liquid Solutions for years, and have never seen any 3F beers there. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing any beer east of the Rockies there.

[Insidious Rex]

Well those were examples of online places you could shop. Theres plenty of others. Although it looks like when you do it today the only non Ebay place that pulls up selling Three Floyds stuff is Witty's Wine.

[beersage]

Well those were examples of online places you could shop. Theres plenty of others. Although it looks like when you do it today the only non Ebay place that pulls up selling Three Floyds stuff is Witty's Wine.

Sam's Wine has both Dreadnaught and Behemoth on sale. I wonder if you call them, they may even put in other Three Floyds in the shipment for you?

http://www.samswine.com/advanced_search_result.php?Department=4&sort=2a&page=55

[Insidious Rex]

Sweet. Beats paying $60 for a bottle from some crank on ebay. Although I must admit I finally broke down and got some Westy 12 through ebay... *ashamed* But hey I got a comperative bargain since I ordered it through the Belgian ebay store where you have people who can pick it up very easily and only charge so much even with shipping unlike the american gougers who probably invested a lot more money to get it themselves.