Matecase?

@marklog @bunnymasseuse it is a good idea. one of the reasons we can do what we do is we pivot the seller for every offer to be the actual winery in the offer. /this has loads of reasons why it keeps costs down and results in the (if i do say so myself) ridiculously good deals we put fourth (District 7 notwithstanding…). Combining these offers creates a process that greatly complicates this said mechanism.

of course we could just become a retailer and skirt the D to C laws like everyone else… but i digress.

@marklog @Winedavid49 I’d be lying if I said I didn’t see the value, but then my tracking of casemates splitting has me at wits ends, yet I continue to do the needful!

@bunnymasseuse @marklog @Winedavid49 If you want to go crazy, here’s a kick-ass system.

1. Adopt the official case splitting system you built for Divvy-Up.
2. Hold an individual’s share separately until their share fills a case.
3. Ship the individual cases to the individuals who’ve bought.
4. Celebrate!

Obviously this would be a whole lot more of a logistical nightmare on WCC’s end. But damn if that wouldn’t make case splitting insanely easier for the end user. The obvious other downside is that we’d less often get to meet each other in real life.

@bunnymasseuse @klezman @marklog @Winedavid49
you could probably surcharge it a bit because some of those might sit a long time.

but it would hold interest to the introverts among us and might allow small quantity purchase for those who just want a taste.

I just want the other stuff that used to be there on the old place to start showing up once in a blue moon here. I miss it. quality was better overall than the crap bezos and buddies stick up for same - when i catch an interesting product that i know was yours i will often try it. can you say butter cakes, yum

@bunnymasseuse @Cerridwyn @klezman @marklog @Winedavid49 just buying the smaller allotments of each deal would probably cost you the same as what they would have to charge to take all those extra steps for you

@marklog The winery to Wine Country Connect drop off or shipping already happens.
There is already labour to pack the orders in the current system, but you’re right that it would be more expensive to have to do essentially one-off packs all the time rather than large batches of case vs less-than-case.

@klezman Right. I’m referring to the re-pack and re-ship at the secret meh bunker.

@marklog Why would that be a thing under any scheme? Confused.

@klezman @marklog
But there is no secret meh bunker, it all happens at WCC, unless it’s a drop ship directly from the winery, as has been known to happen with OR and WA bottles.

@klezman ah, so if logistics and labor can be managed with an amended agreement with WCC (I didn’t realize there was already a middleperson), that actually makes this way easier, as long as WCC has the warehouse space to hold an extra pallet of wine (or so) per wine deal, or for whichever wine deals @winedavid49 might want to curate for the monthly box. I love my run-on sentences.

@marklog WCC runs everything here, not mediocre/mercatylist or whatever it’s called now. I presume WD pays the meh folks either a percentage of sales or a fixed rate to use the platform. WD and snapster started wine.woot together back in the good ol’ days, so it was natural to come here when Amazon bought Whole Foods and could no longer sell wine online.

@klezman @marklog
You can still buy wine on Amazon but they now designate Whole Foods as the seller. Free 2 hour delivery on orders over $35.

@klezman everything I’m hearing makes this easier, not harder. WCC already receives all the wine, they just need to order x% more of each wine and repack some cases! Where do I sign up?

@klezman @marklog @winedavid49
Almost, but not all the wine…
Warehousing and re-packing has a cost, we don’t currently incur those additional $$'s. I shudder to think about the additional bookkeeping to keep the DTC model, ship to states, storage and other costs contained.

@klezman @marklog @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Yeah I would think the bookkeeping of who and what goes to where would be a nightmare and costly.

@klezman @marklog @rjquillin @ScottW58 yea, we looked at it. And I just visited another house that does just that. Very cost and labor intensive. Simplicity = better deals. One SKU is beautiful.