Beerjobbers, which was a online beer store is closing... http://www.beerjobber.com/StoreClosed.htm Anyone have any other info? Just curious
I was on their site this afternoon. If I remember correctly they hadn't been updating inventory in some time.
I ordered once. Odd. It was a beer from Ohio that was shipped from Washington state. I thought it was all shipped direct from the brewery. Most beer was not too impressive and seemed a bit expensive. I liked the idea. All the other beers I wanted were out of stock. My beer did arrive very quickly. I wish then a quick return. Maybe a better model. Enjoy
I just placed my first order with them recently for the HUB Abominable cans. Sorry to read they are closing but I'm glad there are other options out there.
Honestly, good. They had a great idea but ridiculous pricing. I looked many times but never pulled the trigger because they had beers up to a 50% mark up. No thanks, peace out.
Bummer. I read that they were going to have a 2 pack of Wynkoop Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout cans for like $8. I probably would have picked that up.
Not sure what you wanted to order, but I was getting La Cumbre Elevated for ~$2 per 4pk. over retail(not including shipping, but that was reasonable too).
Wow. I guess that explains why they never got back to me about their affiliate program for my page. That sucks
Not really all that surprising since their business model was at best questionable from a legal viewpoint. Bypassing the 3 tier system isn't easy.
Is it just me or have more online stores been closing recently? From what I've seen from a few of them, it didn't seem like everything was legal considering their shipping and considering their lack of respect for the distribution map.
If you buy a 2, 4 or 6 pack of something, yes, the markup is ridiculous. But they did offer half and full cases. Say, a 4 pack was $20, but a case of 24 was $46. Simple principle of buying in bulk: you pay less. As mentioned above with La Cumbre Elevated IPA: $50 case, $20 shipping, comes out to <$12 a 4 pack for a phenomenal IPA. I'd pay that all day long.
Strange to hear you say that. Are you talking about Rivertown? If so, I bought some of their stuff and it was shipped from Ohio. Also, ordered a few times with stuff from Marble and it always shipped from Albuquerque. My Blue Mountain order shipped from Virginia, my Heretic order shipped from California and my Elevation order shipped from Colorado...
Yes. I bought the gueze and it shipped from Washington state. Have not tried it yet. All the other Rivertown beers were out if stock. Enjoy
I for one won't be missing this kind of obnoxious email every week, or the "YO BRO! YOU LOOKIN FOR DIS BEER RIGHT HERE?! WE'S GOTS IT!"
I tried Beerjobber once. It was ok. I agree with what other people have posted: kind of expensive unless you bought in bulk. And the problem with that is who wants to buy something you've never tried in bulk?
I fell "victim" to a number of late night impulse buys in response to their marketing e-mails. Sure, I paid somewhat too much for the beer, but I also got to try (in depth) a number of beers I otherwise wouldn't have become familiar with. And they regularly featured Heretic, so I had a regular pipeline of Evil Twin, etc...
Can someone explain their model? Are they buying in bulk in different regions of the country for sourcing then shipping to the customer based on the location of the beers the customer wants? Or are they combining your order via proximity from warehouses then shipping to the customer?
I can only answer for the stuff i bought, but Elevated shipped right from the brewpub. The shipping label had a WA. address, but they most likely gave that to La Cumbre via email. I was also listed as a "sales associate".
The way it was set up to work was the orders were shipped from the individual brewery under beerjobbers shipping account. Where I think they got into a little trouble was with that shipping account and shippers contract may not have permitted these other companies to ship under it and it may have been suspended.
What about the whole "fuck tier two" thing? Surely there are laws about regulating beer throughout the country?
Its very unclear that they were actually meddling with the 3 tier system since most states permit self distribution by brewers of a certain size and it was the brewers that were selling and shipping the beer. Beerjobber was the marketer. States worry about violations to the 3 tier system when the state isn't collecting its excise taxes because the beer is being sold without it passing through a distributor. This only applies to traditional retail sales through brick and mortar locations and not the internet. Internet sales are a new phenomenon and the states haven't really addressed this new reality. There'll be a lot more online operators cropping up and going under until a clear legal framework is created but that is a lot easier said than done. With 50 different states needing to address it in 50 different ways any solution will be complex and absolutely unenforceable.
If the states are smart it will be easy to enforce. Since all "bootlegging" laws allow for seizure of the vehicle used, all the states have to do is to contact FeddEx and UPS and let them know that there is a store that is refusing to cease and desist sending. FedEx and UPS will then suspend their ability to ship at all (as they do not want to lose trucks). Also the mmajority of liquor store owners when told that what they were doing was illegal will stop I think.
I was getting Elevated IPA from beerjobber too. Holy Moly. What a fantastic beer! Too bad I can't buy anymore. Boohoo!
damn that suck cause i really like that site and super sucks cause was just going to order another case out of all the sites there pricing was the best hope they can re-open soon
Yes, they claimed that the Elevated IPA shipped out directly from the brewery/brewpub. It was incredibly fresh, so I'd buy that.
