Any want to start a Wine co-op?

[Plugger]

Seems as if there a a few wine drinkers here, anyone interested in starting a wine Co-op? We could get our wine a cost and perhaps make a little extra $$$ on the side :hic:

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details, please and how those co-op prices correlate with state liquor/wine laws?

[Hooper]

yeah. a buddy of mine is starting his own distributorship here in texas. laws vary so much by state that it'd be insane to try and do it nationwide..

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Originally posted by Hooper@Apr 27 2003, 08:09 PM
yeah. a buddy of mine is starting his own distributorship here in texas. laws vary so much by state that it'd be insane to try and do it nationwide..
I know...
getting wine shipped to Florida is a mission impossible!

same was in NY but somebody sued the state and WON,
under the 100+ years old law prohibitting state interfernce with interstate commerce.

should I sue the state of Florida and become independent Oprano wine merchant?

who is with me?

I say we can start with $1,000,000 in legal fund
;-)))

that's a LOT of wine, my friends
;_)))

[Plugger]

First off, it would be best to stick with Reciporcal States. For more info:

http://www.wineinstitute.org/shipwine/anal...ro_analysis.htm (http://www.wineinstitute.org/shipwine/analysis/intro_analysis.htm)

I am not up on all of the latest shipping laws, but I know that there has been some improvement in the last few years. Unfortunately, liquor laws are a Constitutional issue :(.

I once put together a Business Plan for what I called, Progressive Wine Pricing. Basically, the more one spent in the last 12 months, the greater the discount they would receive, getting down to a 10% mark-up over cost. The whole system was based on NOT carring inventory. All orders were on a case basis. Orders were held until the deepest distributor discount could be obtained, then shipped.

I can have orders shipped to a Bonded Warhouse and then pack those orders and have them shipped for a minimal cost (Like $50/pallet/month storage). Since most of the wine sales take place in the Recip states, I figured I do not even need to worry about the others. In fact, it could work with just CA alone.

Since I no longer think about wine as a "job", I was just thinking about cutting costs and getting my own liquor license (Beer & Wine, Off-sale, about $6000, $9000 tops) so I could buy wholesale. I alone would break even with the amount of money I spend on wine. (14 bottles a week, $15 avg. = $14,000. Even at a low mark-up that is $2800/Year to the retailers).

There must be a few people out there that could benefit from this arrangement as well. Hell, the whole set-up would be less than 1 months content :).

Before porn, wine was my life . . . even today, it is a big part of it . . .

[Forest]

fucking state attorney generals sucks!!!

there are many dist. that will ship to fl on the QT

i tried once. from cali. labeled it as Olive oil

they shipped it back Openned

fuckers