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TheMightyQuinn

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You peat heads go for this? (WB and WOW)

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BLAAACK BUNDLE
Ardbeg Blaaack will be available on our website tomorrow, Thursday 4th June, at 12pm. Strictly limited to one per customer (if you order more we will refund you at your expense). We're giving advanced notice of this in order to level the playing field and give as many people as possible the opportunity to try get a bottle. The price for the bundle will be R2,070 - the Blaaack for R1,500 and a promo price for the Ardbeg 10yo of R570.

We only have 66 bottles allocated to us, 6 of which will go to the bar for whisky lovers to order by the dram (when lockdown finally ends and the bar can reopen). This leaves 60 bottles for online sales, and it goes without saying, we expect them to sell out in a matter of minutes.

Please understand, we wish we could get more stock, and we've made that known year after year with the powers that be. It's not like we want to disappoint 100s of customers, nor do we want to have to carefully plan the release to prevent negative feedback. You want more; we want more! The only possible way we can see that happening in future though, is to do what we've done and bundle the release with the 10yo.
WOW server crashed 1 minute past 12 last night.

I tried logging in 5 times this morning and then sent them an email.

Then I heard via the grapevine that it's back up but everything is sold out...FFS

A member that posts here regularly WhatsApp'd me to let me know it's back up but sold out...he of course managed to get one. :mad:

The battle on WB will be epic today...I'm hoping for the best.
 

TheMightyQuinn

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You peat heads go for this? (WB and WOW)

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BLAAACK BUNDLE
Ardbeg Blaaack will be available on our website tomorrow, Thursday 4th June, at 12pm. Strictly limited to one per customer (if you order more we will refund you at your expense). We're giving advanced notice of this in order to level the playing field and give as many people as possible the opportunity to try get a bottle. The price for the bundle will be R2,070 - the Blaaack for R1,500 and a promo price for the Ardbeg 10yo of R570.

We only have 66 bottles allocated to us, 6 of which will go to the bar for whisky lovers to order by the dram (when lockdown finally ends and the bar can reopen). This leaves 60 bottles for online sales, and it goes without saying, we expect them to sell out in a matter of minutes.

Please understand, we wish we could get more stock, and we've made that known year after year with the powers that be. It's not like we want to disappoint 100s of customers, nor do we want to have to carefully plan the release to prevent negative feedback. You want more; we want more! The only possible way we can see that happening in future though, is to do what we've done and bundle the release with the 10yo.

Yaass please...got it !!

Clicked that refresh button from 11:58 onward...when that button went Orange I struck like a cobra.


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Jirreee...that was quick.
 

DramBuddy

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I really like that bells special reserve ...great value buy
I usually switch to a cheaper whisky about about 3-4 drams, so the Bells usually follows a peated whisky or Glenlivet 12 for non-peated or whatever's on the bar in that price range.
 

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Last night/this morning I tried on WaW from the stroke of 12 until just after one and then retired and was up early working this morning and just kept hitting refresh on the WaW site and voila, I was lucky...
 

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Last night/this morning I tried on WaW from the stroke of 12 until just after one and then retired and was up early working this morning and just kept hitting refresh on the WaW site and voila, I was lucky...
Very lucky indeed. And quite impressive to have min. 2 bottles of the annual releases.
 

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Last night/this morning I tried on WaW from the stroke of 12 until just after one and then retired and was up early working this morning and just kept hitting refresh on the WaW site and voila, I was lucky...
Very lucky. I was up until 3am and the site was still hammered.
 

TheMightyQuinn

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It seems the guys at Bottega are out of touch a bit with other vendor's pricing and also late to the party?

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It seems the guys at Bottega are out of touch a bit with other vendor's pricing and also late to the party?

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The first special was R2500 and that was sold out very fast, all the other retailers had it at the same price and it also sold out very fast. Boulevard Liquors had it for R2200, he had 1444 sets and it sold very fast. They see the demand so prices increased.
 

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The first special was R2500 and that was sold out very fast, all the other retailers had it at the same price and it also sold out very fast. Boulevard Liquors had it for R2200, he had 1444 sets and it sold very fast. They see the demand so prices increased.

First special also had a Bowmore 15 if I recall correctly instead of the No. 1
 

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The first special was R2500 and that was sold out very fast, all the other retailers had it at the same price and it also sold out very fast. Boulevard Liquors had it for R2200, he had 1444 sets and it sold very fast. They see the demand so prices increased.
Aah OK. Missed the first special then that Bottega had on this. My bad...

I only like to of those anyway.
 

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I see you guys are spending your fuel money on...well, human fuel... :)
 

TheMightyQuinn

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Last night/this morning I tried on WaW from the stroke of 12 until just after one and then retired and was up early working this morning and just kept hitting refresh on the WaW site and voila, I was lucky...

Very lucky indeed. And quite impressive to have min. 2 bottles of the annual releases.

I just landed my second bottle as well...so chuffed right now.

Thanks WaW !! I sent an email this morning to them when I saw the site was down, so they kept me a bottle!

An invoice just popped up in my Inbox a few minutes ago so I called them and they told me this story.

How's that for service!!
 
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