evilc
Well-Known Member
I wanted to expand on this, since earlier I was posting from a phone.
I agree completely with what you're saying, and I haven't done a strict $4$ trade in a while either. Mostly it's just been slinging boxes back and forth with people whom I have a good relationship with, and getting roughly close. I suppose this thread might be somewhat ill-placed given that most posters on here don't take the attitude I'm describing, but it's prevalent on a bunch of the "other channels". I'm referring to the portion of the craft beer crowd that expect to be "cut a deal" on Bruery beers simply because they don't like the price but want them anyway. This applies to a bunch of other expensive (but not "whale") bottles as well; the Bruery is just probably the most prevalent one because they have a ton of pricier releases. This attitude seems to manifest itself far more strongly online when it comes to Bruery beers than any others. I've been multiple examples of it today alone on non-TB channels.
TL;DR (not directed at you obviously): don't be a dick when trading, and don't think someone is greedy simply because they want the beers exchanged to have cost roughly the same thing in retail.
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