Jon Walker wrote:You make me sound like a bootlegger greedily sitting on massive quantities of seasonal beers.
There's probably two or maybe three seasonals A YEAR that I buy in volume and when I say volume I mean generally 3-5 cases of each. Each of these beers usually comes in to the LCBO in volumes of at least 200 cases, in many instances far greater numbers. How exactly do you suggest I buy 5 cases then? Are you suggesting I shouldn't buy that quantity of a beer I like to keep (and in many cases age) in stock?
No, I wasn't suggesting any of those things. Actually, I was assuming that when you went out of your way to tell us you were going to buy "in VOLUME", that you meant way more that 3-5 cases. That doesn't bother me at all.
What bothers me is the implication inherent in the offer to sell your "overstock" that you're - or anyone else, is - buying more than you need (more even that you need for trading purposes). If that's not the case, I apologize for any perceived slight.
To really apply a take what you need approach nobody should buy more than they can drink in a given week and nobody should attempt to build a cellar to store beers they wish to enjoy beyond the three weeks it often takes for these items to sell out. I'm sorry but there's too few quality beers brought in to the province through the LCBO for me to adopt this approach. If you had any idea the time and effort I put in to acquiring most of my stock you might cut me some slack.
As above, I have pretty much zero issue with anybody buying whatever quantities they want for personal consumption (including cellaring). I'm also pretty indifferent to people buying a bit extra for trading purposes. However, this changes slightly when someone buying extra in order to trade (presumably with people out-of-Privince) is thereby depriving other Ontarians of reasonably easy access to the (very) limited number of quality products we have available.
As for not trading with me out of principal...your choice. Those who have are generally happy to not have to make a trip to Premiere to acquire things they couldn't otherwise obtain in Ontario.
I don't trade a ton, so I don't think it would be a big loss for either of us. Regardless, given that I massively overesimated what you meant by "VOLUME", the point is pretty much moot.
-Josh