The Bar Towel

icemachine wrote:I can't find a listing yet for the Ola Dubh 40???

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo-ear/lcbo/produ ... ber=143610

I was at the Cooper St. LCBO today, and talked to a guy at customer service regarding the 40. He said that they have 9 cases in the warehouse, and have stopped taking names of people to hold bottles for, as apparently they have more than 9 cases reserved. He said the best bet to get some in the T.O. was to check the summerhill store early next week and (paraphrasing) get really lucky.

DragonOfBlood wrote:crappy little LCBO.

the crappiest, littlest lcbo that has inventory would be Stratford. which is where i was going to get some tomorrow. is that where you got them, and if so, did you clean them out?

herrorara wrote:

DragonOfBlood wrote:crappy little LCBO.

the crappiest, littlest lcbo that has inventory would be Stratford. which is where i was going to get some tomorrow. is that where you got them, and if so, did you clean them out?

Haha, that actually is where I got them. One of the worst LCBO's I've ever been too.

No, I did not clean them out. Only bought four for myself.

cannondale wrote:

icemachine wrote:I can't find a listing yet for the Ola Dubh 40???

http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo-ear/lcbo/produ ... ber=143610

Yeah I think I misread an earlier post where someone mentioned 40, but I think they were talking about the number of bottle of 12 available. The Ola Dubh40 product code started showing late Saturday (Yes I've become a compulsive LCBO checker)

beyond daily is ineffective behaviour, as it only changes on our site daily...however internally they can see it in real time

dmits wrote:I was at the Cooper St. LCBO today, and talked to a guy at customer service regarding the 40. He said that they have 9 cases in the warehouse, and have stopped taking names of people to hold bottles for, as apparently they have more than 9 cases reserved. He said the best bet to get some in the T.O. was to check the summerhill store early next week and (paraphrasing) get really lucky.

But there are only 30 cases!! How can they reserve over 30% of the entire Ontario shipment for some special people, and then refuse ANY holds to other people? What about our equal-access, tax-funded crown corp... I've been refused holds for this at 3 stores.

Anyway, still good information - so thanks! I look forward to scoring a few extra OD40's in case people miss out, which I'm sure will happen. Don't let this silly event bring anybody's holdays down!! Be safe. Cheers.

Belgian wrote:

dmits wrote:I was at the Cooper St. LCBO today, and talked to a guy at customer service regarding the 40. He said that they have 9 cases in the warehouse, and have stopped taking names of people to hold bottles for, as apparently they have more than 9 cases reserved. He said the best bet to get some in the T.O. was to check the summerhill store early next week and (paraphrasing) get really lucky.

But there are only 30 cases!! How can they reserve over 30% of the entire Ontario shipment for some special people, and then refuse ANY holds to other people? What about our equal-access, tax-funded crown corp... I've been refused holds for this at 3 stores.

Anyway, still good information - so thanks! I look forward to scoring a few extra OD40's in case people miss out, which I'm sure will happen. Don't let this silly event bring anybody's holdays down!! Be safe. Cheers.

Yeah I was refused a hold as well

JesseMcG wrote:

Belgian wrote:

dmits wrote:I was at the Cooper St. LCBO today, and talked to a guy at customer service regarding the 40. He said that they have 9 cases in the warehouse, and have stopped taking names of people to hold bottles for, as apparently they have more than 9 cases reserved. He said the best bet to get some in the T.O. was to check the summerhill store early next week and (paraphrasing) get really lucky.

But there are only 30 cases!! How can they reserve over 30% of the entire Ontario shipment for some special people, and then refuse ANY holds to other people? What about our equal-access, tax-funded crown corp... I've been refused holds for this at 3 stores.

Anyway, still good information - so thanks! I look forward to scoring a few extra OD40's in case people miss out, which I'm sure will happen. Don't let this silly event bring anybody's holdays down!! Be safe. Cheers.

Yeah I was refused a hold as well

Me too, and I called the Cooper St location really early and told they didn't do holds. I can't imagine all of those holds came before me. I understand that not everyone can get this beer since there are only 30 cases, but it sucks that having connections seems to be the way to get this. If it was purely first come first serve (or first people to put holds on), then it would be fair, even though many will not get the beer.

At a private store, well that's their choice to give preference to different customers, but it would also be my choice to not shop there. At a crown corp, this is stupid. Government employees should not have the power to give special privileges to their friends.

I was refused a hold at Bayview village, they refused to even notify me when it came in.

kwjd wrote:Government employees should not have the power to give special privileges to their friends.

BWAHAHHAHAHAAAAHHH!!!! * ahem * Sorry.

Id these pointy-headed staff were really serious about 'no holds for you' they should cancel ALL the holds on the special lists, citing unfairness of availability to everyone (as they did to me). Seriously! It's stunningly hypocritical (not that I'm much invested either way, it's just positively nauseating to see a state-run system in bed with their 'select' clientéle, while acting all 'egalitarian' to my face at the same time.)

Or maybe we just weren't supposed to know...

Belgian wrote:Or maybe we just weren't supposed to know...

This wouldn't surprise me.

kwjd wrote:

JesseMcG wrote:

Belgian wrote: But there are only 30 cases!! How can they reserve over 30% of the entire Ontario shipment for some special people, and then refuse ANY holds to other people? What about our equal-access, tax-funded crown corp... I've been refused holds for this at 3 stores.

Anyway, still good information - so thanks! I look forward to scoring a few extra OD40's in case people miss out, which I'm sure will happen. Don't let this silly event bring anybody's holdays down!! Be safe. Cheers.

Yeah I was refused a hold as well

Government employees should not have the power to give special privileges to their friends.

OHhh and what POWER we have. Think about it! We can hold on to beer for certain people!!! MUAHAHHAHAHAHA. SO nefarious, so devious, so....so.....so EVIL!!!!! Yes, you've figured us out alright.....think about the POWER we could weild by reserving beer. Think about the POWER we could have in our very own hands if one day, just one day, we could do the same thing with wine! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHA THE WORLD WILL BE OURS WITH THIS POWER!!!!!!!!!!! HE-MAN AIN'T GOT SHIT ON US!!!!!!


seriously.......its being held for liscencees........plain and simple. Nothing to do with "power".

SteelbackGuy wrote:

kwjd wrote:

JesseMcG wrote: Yeah I was refused a hold as well

Government employees should not have the power to give special privileges to their friends.

OHhh and what POWER we have. Think about it! We can hold on to beer for certain people!!! MUAHAHHAHAHAHA. SO nefarious, so devious, so....so.....so EVIL!!!!! Yes, you've figured us out alright.....think about the POWER we could weild by reserving beer. Think about the POWER we could have in our very own hands if one day, just one day, we could do the same thing with wine! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHA THE WORLD WILL BE OURS WITH THIS POWER!!!!!!!!!!! HE-MAN AIN'T GOT SHIT ON US!!!!!!


seriously.......its being held for liscencees........plain and simple. Nothing to do with "power".

most important question: which liscencees?

dmits wrote:

SteelbackGuy wrote:

kwjd wrote: Government employees should not have the power to give special privileges to their friends.

OHhh and what POWER we have. Think about it! We can hold on to beer for certain people!!! MUAHAHHAHAHAHA. SO nefarious, so devious, so....so.....so EVIL!!!!! Yes, you've figured us out alright.....think about the POWER we could weild by reserving beer. Think about the POWER we could have in our very own hands if one day, just one day, we could do the same thing with wine! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHA THE WORLD WILL BE OURS WITH THIS POWER!!!!!!!!!!! HE-MAN AIN'T GOT SHIT ON US!!!!!!


seriously.......its being held for liscencees........plain and simple. Nothing to do with "power".

most important question: which liscencees?

I don't know. I don't live in Toronto, nor do I know which restaurants are trying to hoard the product.
But I do know it happens, and usually it is because they buy large amounts of stuff each week, sometimes $3000.00 per week or more. So it makes sense to appease them, in a managers eyes. But I like the conspiracy theory that gives regular LCBO employees a mysterious power that sets us apart from the humans.