The Etre/BiaB love/hate/?/rant thread...

[mjohnson171]

Am I daft or did Etre just start charging 1 Euro per order to hold a box for a quarter?

I don't remember ever being charged for holding and later combining boxes for a quarterly shipment.

 

[JonathanAmes]

Am I daft or did Etre just start charging 1 Euro per order to hold a box for a quarter?

I don't remember ever being charged for holding and later combining boxes for a quarterly shipment.

I believe that’s only if the order is less than 25 euro.

 

[andrewcschultz]

I wish Etre gave you the option to not see out of stock items.

 

[jaeselector]

Any movement on anyone’s recent Etre boxes?

 

[andrewdrinks]

No kids here.

So who the hell are you teaching?

 

[SeaWatchman]

So who the hell are you teaching?

I meant no kids as in no financial slavery for 18+ years.

 

[gueuzelife]

I know some people don't like BiaB but every box I've ordered from them has gotten through customs including LAX. The one box I had sent back was from Etre. Just got a box from BiaB ordered last Wednesday, shipped last Saturday, in my hands today. Not bad. It went through Chicago which is encouraging and hopefully the spring pack does as well.

 

[andrewcschultz]

I meant no kids as in no financial slavery for 18+ years.

I want to believe that once our three year old is out of daycare we'll have much more disable income, but I know it's a lie.

 

[boogercrack]

I want to believe that once our three year old is out of daycare we'll have much more disable income, but I know it's a lie.

Disable income?

Hopefully not.

But yeah 2 in day care pumping out 25k/yr is infuriating.

 

[andrewcschultz]

Disable income?

Hopefully not.

But yeah 2 in day care pumping out 25k/yr is infuriating.

They have disabled my bank account *and* my mental capacity. I meant disposable income.

 

[SeaWatchman]

Power to the parents, but it’s just not for us. We’re too into traveling and saving money to retire early (and buying lambic).

 

[primebeer]

Yeah I have a box from etre that has a last posted update of March 30. Since then I haven't seen any movement on Bpost or USPS tracking.

I'm not overly concerned, it's all lambic and it's not scorchingly hot on either side of the pond. That said, I promised MikeG we would play slap the lambic bag in front of Whole Foods in Chelsea so that's been delayed now.

Finally some movement after 23 days, apparently already through NYC customs.

 

[jaeselector]

Finally some movement after 23 days, apparently already through NYC customs.

My BPost notification changed too. Nothing on USPS however.

 

[jbdpsu82]

Power to the parents, but it’s just not for us. We’re too into traveling and saving money to retire early (and buying lambic).

We've all got different priorities when it comes to spending/saving. For me...

 

[Padraig]

Finally some movement after 23 days, apparently already through NYC customs.

Same here. Looks like my box was released by customs this morning after 3.5 weeks.

 

[andrewcschultz]

Power to the parents, but it’s just not for us. We’re too into traveling and saving money to retire early (and buying lambic).

So you know, this statement has played in my head a few times recently

• When I was cleaning poop off the bathroom floor two nights ago (for context, this was the third crap in less than ten minutes by my three year old, the first of which was in a toilet and the second was in a pull up)
• Cleaning poop off the inside of a diaper pail which was somehow deposited when the aforementioned poopy pull up was disposed of
• Trying to get the gluey residue deposited by a sticker off of a washed-then-dried t-shirt that we *just* bought our six year old

I fear this post will haunt me for some time.

 

[SeaWatchman]

So you know, this statement has played in my head a few times recently

• When I was cleaning poop off the bathroom floor two nights ago (for context, this was the third crap in less than ten minutes by my three year old, the first of which was in a toilet and the second was in a pull up)
• Cleaning poop off the inside of a diaper pail which was somehow deposited when the aforementioned poopy pull up was disposed of
• Trying to get the gluey residue deposited by a sticker off of a washed-then-dried t-shirt that we *just* bought our six year old

I fear this post will haunt me for some time.

First two bullets are a common occurrence for adult lambic enthusiasts who host shares at their house.

 

[SeaWatchman]

I have a box coming (not EG or BiaB) from Belgium that was dropped at the post office on April 17. Zero updates to tracking since then and it never even hit USPS until this morning when it was out for delivery. No idea where it even went through for customs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Gene1]

I promised MikeG we would play slap the lambic bag in front of Whole Foods in Chelsea

 

[BadJustin]

New phone, who dis.

 

[Kasher]

I can't tell if these are new posts or if BadJustin is slowly moving over posts from the Lambic thread.

 

[BadJustin]

I can't tell if these are new posts or if BadJustin is slowly moving over posts from the Lambic thread.

LOL nope- on beer an waiting for a mod power upgrade. Taint as simple as selecting key words to prune, at least not with my access level.

 

[NClambicguy]

Has anyone else had an issue with Jonathan sending the invoice over so you can pay? He contacted me quickly and asked what I wanted to do but has been radio silent the last week after I asked him to send me an invoice.

 

[BadJustin]

Has anyone else had an issue with Jonathan sending the invoice over so you can pay? He contacted me quickly and asked what I wanted to do but has been radio silent the last week after I asked him to send me an invoice.

Yeah, last couple orders had a bit of a delay but it’s my understanding they are short staffed and obvs flooded right now

 

[jbdpsu82]

Has anyone else had an issue with Jonathan sending the invoice over so you can pay? He contacted me quickly and asked what I wanted to do but has been radio silent the last week after I asked him to send me an invoice.

Same situation here. Got the email telling me my options. Sent an email selecting my option. Crickets since.

 

[jaeselector]

Same here. Radio silencio.

 

[sherm10161]

I got the invoice from Jonathan and was able to pay via PayPal, but I already had two bottles on reservation to round out the box. That was on Friday. Have not heard anything since then.

 

[NClambicguy]

I got the invoice from Jonathan and was able to pay via PayPal, but I already had two bottles on reservation to round out the box. That was on Friday. Have not heard anything since then.

Yeah, I had 2 bottles reserved so I just needed the invoice for the proxy fee and shipping. Glad to hear I'm not alone in this. Figured they were swamped but kept hearing about people that had received their invoice already as well.

 

[sjstraub]

I got my invoice yesterday am (had bottles on reserve too), so sounds like they are just slowly working their way through them.

 

[jaeselector]

Got my previous box today after about 5 weeks. One of the bottles was broken. What does Etre usually do about this?