kylemittskus wrote:What?! I'm the enable-ee! You keep pushing me into FS and splitting deals and such.

cmaldoon wrote:$70 retail wines
Comparable to $100 Napa wines
Worth $50
Sold for $45
Bought, taxed, and shipped for $20

Walmart pricing yes... Without the requisite decline in quality

I think its a combination of a wine glut with the economy being what it is at this price point.

The market for 87 octane 10% ethanol swill is teetering on what people will pay without lifestyle changes. More and more people at the bus stops. Remember how the prices crashed after it reached about $4.15 here prob $4.50+ in Cali.

Has anyone tried this wine?

OK Im going to try to get throug the labyrinth of posts and work out how many good deals I can curretly get by joining this thing again. I have unlimited email addresses so thats ok.

in the meanwhile,
K&L sells 06 Atlas Peek Napa Cab for $25

and a cheaper version of the Expression (non-vineyard-specific) 44 degrees 2008 for $28. Retail is $35 so not huge deal, but it is almost as highly rated by the experts!

bud8jr wrote:

Has anyone tried this wine?

I haven't tried it, but I've been wanting to get my hands on some DeLille Cellars since I moved to WA. It's just too expensive, even if you are in their wine club. I went in for 4 sets and drained half my credits. If you check out their website they have an aging chart that they keep updated. The majority of this wine will be in my cellar until 2020.

richardhod wrote:all their wine is crap. wish i hadn't bought...

Agreed. I looked through that one once. They're probably still making money off that wine at the Groupon prices

richardhod wrote:all their wine is crap. wish i hadn't bought...

fair enough. that's why I included the caveat



re: DeLille Cellars, though, I've tried one of their whites several times. I can't remember anything for tasting notes, but I know it was good juice and had come highly recommended by several people whose tastes I respect. It is definitely a quality winery.

tytiger58 wrote:I'm all over 4 bottles of that! Washington wines are on my buy list this year! And I am riding this wave all the way in!

I went to a wine pairing dinner last week and they were serving Five Star Cellars wines from Walla Walla. If you get a chance to try any of them (Cab, Merlot, Syrah, etc.), you won't be disappointed. So, add them to your "list" of Washington wines.

How frequent are those Lot18 $0.01 shipping specials? Trying to figure out whether I should wait or not.

And what happened to white wine?

twowootthree wrote:How frequent are those Lot18 $0.01 shipping specials? Trying to figure out whether I should wait or not.

And what happened to white wine?

The .01 shipping seems to only be every 3 weeks or so and lines up with a holiday or special occasion.

Kyle (or anyone who knows) - what's the timing on when the Cinderella deals go up each day? Noon and Midnight EST? thanks!

New deal at Lot18 is up $69.99
2008 Fritz Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and 2007 Reserve Pinot Noir Duo

Thoughts?

The Andrew Murray offerrings on RLL actually are fairly interesting and different from AM offerings on other sites recently. Prices seem somewhat reasonable as well averaging about $20/bottle:

Andrew Murray on RLL direct link for members

jhkey wrote:Kyle (or anyone who knows) - what's the timing on when the Cinderella deals go up each day? Noon and Midnight EST? thanks!

Noon and 9 EST.

jhkey wrote:Kyle (or anyone who knows) - what's the timing on when the Cinderella deals go up each day? Noon and Midnight EST? thanks!

Noon and 9pm east coast time.

kylemittskus wrote:Noon and 9 EST.

Are you doing any super Tuscan's today Kyle?

richardhod wrote:OK Im going to try to get throug the labyrinth of posts and work out how many good deals I can curretly get by joining this thing again. I have unlimited email addresses so thats ok.

in the meanwhile,
K&L sells 06 Atlas Peek Napa Cab for $25

and a cheaper version of the Expression (non-vineyard-specific) 44 degrees 2008 for $28. Retail is $35 so not huge deal, but it is almost as highly rated by the experts!

Richard,
I believe this offer is for the Atlas Peak White label which is their low end cab. I tried it at Buena Vista and thought it was good but not nearly as distinct as the black label bottles. So I wouldn't expect to much from it.

bdlsmoran wrote:New deal at Lot18 is up $69.99
2008 Fritz Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and 2007 Reserve Pinot Noir Duo

Thoughts?

I haven't had Fritz Cab, but I have had one of their Zins. I remember it being on the fruity side, but was one of my favorite Zins when I first started drinking wine.

Even though I'm not completely excited about the PN, I'll be going in for 2.

Does anyone know anything about Del Rio Vineyards up at Invino? The Syrah Port looks interesting.

Well, the more I looked into the DeLille, the better that one sounded, so I spent some of my credits for a two pack. Try one now, save one for later. Now n' Laters wine packs.

hesnctrl wrote:
Even better, every referral who purchases will result in a $25 credit in your account!

Look what they wrote in the email they sent out about this deal:

Cheers to never paying for wine again!

I guess they really mean it

cortot20 wrote:Richard,
I believe this offer is for the Atlas Peak White label which is their low end cab. I tried it at Buena Vista and thought it was good but nearly as distinct as the black label bottles. So I wouldn't expect to much from it.

Got it.. oops! Yes, their white label stuff is decent, but I can get better QPR. The black label stuff is the biz. thank you for pointing that out! No photo on the site. The woot was for the mountain Cabs

redwinefan wrote:Well, the more I looked into the DeLille, the better that one sounded, so I spent some of my credits for a two pack. Try one now, save one for later. Now n' Laters wine packs.

Please share why you thought this. I noticed they said to cellar for another 3+ years. I, too, want to try the juice when I get it. So, if I go in on this, I'll drink one and cellar the other.

I'm missing quite a few as well. They just look like signup with no purchases.

The way the checkout is setup that's not likely.

WTSO currently has the Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port 1999 (92 Points W&S) for $29.99 with free shipping on just one bottle.

Lowest price online I found is $49.99 (shipping extra).

Haven't tried it myself, but looks like a good deal. I would buy it, but I could get $60 in credits on Lot18 for that price.

So... between the last couple of weeks on Woot and the Lot18 insanity, I really cannot buy any more wine for a while. So of course Vino Noceto shows up. Grr...

Wellington is having a sale on cases of their 2008 SAUVIGNON BLANC - $90.
I believe it's for club members only, buy why would anyone not be a member of Peter's wine club?

hogfatt wrote:Purchase limit is 1. Too bad this wasn't glitched like the buywithme was.

Too much work to create a bunch of new accounts.

At this point I am becoming more suspicions about lot18. Every coupon site out there has these offers. Lot18 can't survive discounting ($20 gets you $60) at 60% on already reduced prices. So, what kinds of wines should we expect them to offer since their profit margins will be affected by the couponing? Should we use our credits ASAP? Anyone else thinking like I am?

jmdavidson wrote:At this point I am becoming more suspicions about lot18. Every coupon site out there has these offers. Lot18 can't survive discounting ($20 gets you $60) at 60% on already reduced prices. So, what kinds of wines should we expect them to offer since their profit margins will be affected by the couponing? Should we use our credits ASAP? Anyone else thinking like I am?

I agree. They recently received $3M in VC funding. My guess is that they're burning all of it on this type of marketing, and will claim it as "one time startup expenses". So even though they lose money this year, their top line revenue numbers will look great (because they are doing a ton of business with these credits), indicating positive growth potential and making it easier for them to get a second round of funding. A bit of a pyramid scheme on their part, but I assume they think we'll all keep buying after the credits run out.

jmdavidson wrote:At this point I am becoming more suspicions about lot18. ... So, what kinds of wines should we expect them to offer since their profit margins will be affected by the couponing?

I suspect this is about building client base and numbers to get winery participation (who really will be the ones with profit cuts, I would guess). Most vouchers are expiring end of May now, and I doubt I will have much difficulty using mine based on what I have seen up so far.

In the next few weeks I expect to see some good wines, not deeply discounted (+/-20% off list). But thats just a WAG from the peanut gallery (me). Maybe post May, deeper discounts to keep peanut gallery (me) going to the site post-voucher.

2006 Longoria Fe Ciega Pinot Noir on Lot18 now. This one has some decent reviews on CT, I may scoop a couple of them up along with the DeLille. I was waiting to see what came up today to get some free shipping with the DeLille if I could.

unwoofer wrote:I suspect this is about building client base and numbers to get winery participation (who really will be the ones with profit cuts, I would guess). Most vouchers are expiring end of May now, and I doubt I will have much difficulty using mine based on what I have seen up so far.

Agreed.

I actually work for a start-up (in a totally different industry) that's doing something not totally dissimilar. There's lots of VC money out there at the moment, and it makes sense to spend a lot of money on customer acquisition. They are probably thrilled at the sales rates on the vouchers and the number of customers buying for the first time.

Do I expect that future offerings will be tweaked using the learnings from the current campaign? Yes. But are the higher-than-expected acquisition costs going to shut them down within the next six months? Doubtful.

Also, I'd bet that they view the potential customer base in the standard 80/20 fashion - considering how much money I've spent on "discount wine" in the last 12 months (or how much hogfatt has!), paying a few hundred bucks to acquire me as a customer may actually be reasonable.

They may also be betting on the idea that only particularly valuable customers are going to be willing to go through the process of tracking down and purchasing so many vouchers...

I dunno, I can understand that it looks crazy from the outside, but it still makes sense for me - at 60% off, even retail prices remain attractive.

JRummel wrote:2006 Longoria Fe Ciega Pinot Noir on Lot18 now. This one has some decent reviews on CT, I may scoop a couple of them up along with the DeLille. I was waiting to see what came up today to get some free shipping with the DeLille if I could.

Just FYI you can't combine different offers to hit the free shipping threshold...

michaepf wrote:Just FYI you can't combine different offers to hit the free shipping threshold...

Oh man that's a buzzkill... Didn't realize that. And not only that, but I'd have to pay $10 shipping twice...

j0rdantay10r wrote:Hey, everyone. New to these forums but I wanted to let everyone in on how you can get the lot18 voucher $20 for $60.

late... but, welcome to the forum. i think everyone here has already bought 2 to 200 Lot18 BuyWithMe vouchers.

Just got an email from Scott Harvey Wines. They're having a 20% off sale on some of their wines. Plus, shipping is included if you buy 6 or more of the sale bottles. Don't know if I should jump on this or wait to see which of his wines show up on invino. Any wine.wooters have a suggestion?

Not often I see a deal like this: Premier Cru Santenay, single vineyard. 2005 for $30, 2006 for $25. On that other site, inVino. Seems like a killer deal to me, especially since Santenay was one of thsoe wines that "did it" for me, when I downed a bottle with my family when it was 20 years old...along with a prime rib.

jhkey wrote:Wellington is having a sale on cases of their 2008 SAUVIGNON BLANC - $90.
I believe it's for club members only, buy why would anyone not be a member of Peter's wine club?

If you want this and know Peter, I'd email him and ask...
Thats CHEAP! priced like the Duke. Maybe inheritance taxes biting. Still, Peter just made (in my estimation) about $40k on he wooting, so perhaps not!

hesnctrl wrote:I believe my friend made his first Lot 18 purchase with the voucher and I did get the $25.

Yesterday, my wife clicked thru my referral link and made her first Lot18 purchase with the vouchers, and I did not get the $25 yet. I just sent a message to Lot18. Since it's a new program, maybe they are experiencing glitches?

OK, so about these coupons, if I understand the steps correctly, they are:

•Get an invite to Lot 18 (ok, I’m good there);
•Sign up for Lot 18, via the invite;
•Sign up with, and buy a coupon from, one of the Buy With Me city sites, using a special discount code that may work only once per city (is that true?), otherwise pay $25 per coupon;
•Repeat with as many cities as desired that are offering this same coupon (am not sure whether I need to use a different email for each city, or if that's only if I want to purchase more than 1 coupon per city);
•Load the $60 value (per coupon purchased) into my Lot 18 acct.;
•Spend ASAP. (My Lot 18 inviter will get a bonus when I do? I think?)

I was finding this all so confusing, so if I basically have the gist of it, or if anyone cares to comment, feel free.

InFrom wrote:OK, so about these coupons, if I understand the steps correctly, they are:

*snip*

I was finding this all so confusing, so if I basically have the gist of it, or if anyone cares to comment, feel free.

Yup. You've got it. A few days ago it was truly insane as one could seemingly buy an unlimited amount of the vouchers from BuyWithMe, but they've now capped it at one voucher per city. You can still accomplish the "unlimited vouchers" deal by creating multiple BuyWithMe accounts.