Source to Buy Aluminum Bottles - Page 2

**jezter6** · 01-21-2008, 03:58 PM

I'd love to know the cost of 5000 cases.

It would be a heck of an investment, but for someone with a buttload of money and a little time, could be an enterprising business. Sell a pallet or two to some of the big homebrew shops, and try to sell the rest on the internet....

chione · 01-21-2008, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jezter6

I'd love to know the cost of 5000 cases.

It would be a heck of an investment, but for someone with a buttload of money and a little time, could be an enterprising business. Sell a pallet or two to some of the big homebrew shops, and try to sell the rest on the internet....

$.60 bottle x 120,000 bottles = $72,000

KevinWP · 01-21-2008, 04:55 PM

That's about in the range I was expecting... 0.45-0.75 apiece in bulk purchase. I was thinking of somewhere between 10-100 cases depending on the price break points and then reselling them at cost here, and with a markup elsewhere. Unfortunately I beleive 120K bottles somehwat exceeds the Homebrew Annual new bottle market by several multiples.

Also, unfortunately I got no hard answers... here is the rest of my email exchange...

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Eric,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm sorry to hear that your minimum order requirements are so high. Could you please give me a 'rough' dollar figure for a minimum order quantity? Also, do you ever have misprints or otherwise flawed quantities that you might want to get rid of to an aftermarket for your product?

Thanks
Kevin
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Kevin,

You would be better served to contact a distributor. CCL does not have containers available at this time. Thanks

Eric
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Eric,
Thanks for your time today. Can you recommend a distributor of your
products? (You previously mentioned Elemental Containers, but did not
identify them as a distributor of your products)

Kevin
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We do not have a distributor that stocks our product , that is why I
mentioned Elemental Container. Good Luck.
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Note the lack of salutation or signature in the last response.... I do believe I have been kicked to the curb.... 'CCL does not have containers available at this time' and 'We do not have a distributor that stocks our product...'

Oh well.

Germey · 01-21-2008, 07:12 PM

In one of the articles I read regarding the bottles, it mentioned specifically that, despite the high price, the demand is currently outstripping the supply. It is still a new process and the throughput is slow. At this point, we are kind of at the mercy of larger economic forces to make these a more readily available commodity.
Hops, grain, aluminum bottles, can't the homebrewer catch a break lately?