Leftover alcohol & soft drink from Wedding

[sparks85]

Evening all,

We have a significant amount of soft drink and alcohol (spirits and beer) from our wedding a few weeks ago, where we ran our own bar.

We've too much to hang on to and too much money tied up in it to be able to just give/gift bottles away.

Gumtree and eBay don't permit sale of alcohol.

Any ideas where we might advertise it, aside to friends on facebook..

Cheers
Ben

[rich85uk]

Raffle tickets?

[Jag_NE]

if you had enough to buy it in the first place surely you can afford to give it away?

[BoRED S2upid]

Have a party! how much money do you think your going to make and is it worth it?

[dudleybloke]

Set up an illegal rave and run the bar.

[sparks85]

Jag_NE said:

if you had enough to buy it in the first place surely you can afford to give it away?

Not sure if you're being serious but what we have left is from Sale or Return from the soft drink and beer (packets/boxes opened).

There's 40 bottles of spirits we bought outright, massively overestimated how much we'd need - there's probably £800 tied up in them.

So no, giving it away isn't really an option, as I did mention in my original post.

The raffle idea will be a lot of hassle, we just want to shift it all on in one go or a couple of large lots.

[Lotus Notes]

Local Freehouse, negociate a win win?

[skilly1]

I may take it. List what you have. Would have to be a good price though as I would have to pick-up and deliver to Wolverhampton.

[8003px]

Sure you will drink that over your lifetime, but if you want to sell as previous poster has requested list what you have and start an auction for someone to collect from your designated place, cant be that difficult.

[birdcage]

You never expected any return so drink it In a week or a year.....odd

[sparks85]

8003px said:

Sure you will drink that over your lifetime, but if you want to sell as previous poster has requested list what you have and start an auction for someone to collect from your designated place, cant be that difficult.

Yes, we might drink it over a lifetime, but in the meantime where exactly are we supposed to store 40 bottles of spirits, 50 bottles of fizzy drink, 30 cartons of juice, 150 bottles of lager etc?

Where would you suggest starting an auction?

birdcage said:

You never expected any return so drink it In a week or a year.....odd

Again, not really helpful - we did expect return on the beer and soft drink, and the spirits we expected to be drunk, except we overestimated. As I said. Above.

Does anyone actually have any suggestions (auction aside) or does anyone else want to suggest the exact opposite of what we are after?

Just to be crystal clear:

- We don't want to keep it
- We don't want to give it away for free
- We want to sell it

[sparks85]

And our own auction is a lot of hassle - marketing it to enough people, selling tickets, collecting the money etc.

[Wiccan of Darkness]

Out of curiosity, why is giving it away not an option? If this was me and I was lumbered with 40 bottles of spirits, I'd play the long game. Over the next 4 years (alcohol will keep) I'd do the following.

Rum, port and brandy I would keep. 2 bottles of each, down to 34....
Whiskey/Bourbon pick 1 or 2 people (I'm guessing if you and OH both have a surviving dad, that's a bottle of whiskey each christmas for 4 years. Now down to 26 bottles....
Select 6 bottles as your personal christmas stash for your own parties. Down to 20 bottles.

That's 5 people for the next 4 years you don't have to buy christmas or birthday presents for. Either that, or 20 people you don't have to buy a christmas present for this year. Putting it bluntly, there's only 1 bank holiday between us and christmas, and only 16 weeks till office xmas parties start. Right now, you appear quite sorted for the bulk of christmas presents for this year....

You might struggle with resale to licensed premises as you need to be licensed to sell it. Can't even flog my own home brew ffs. They'll want a receipt if it's for £800 (unless they'll sell it under the table) and you're not a vat registered supplier.

My train of thought has drifted due to that Go Compare advert having just run whilst typing this.

I know a couple of farmers who are 2 bottles a week people, get the word out and it wouldn't surprise me if the whole lot was purchased by a farmer.

Other option is elsewhere a fellow PH'er is having trouble with some wasps. Soaking the bds with booze hasn't been suggested yet...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... Wasp thread.

[anonymous-user]

I'd think the local independent off licence or pub.

But I reckon you will be very lucky to get more than 40-50% of retail.

[thebraketester]

What's your location?

[rich85uk]

desolate said:

I'd think the local independent off licence or pub.

But I reckon you will be very lucky to get more than 40-50% of retail.

This is probably your best bet but I agree you will probably be shafted on price, it's an awkward situation your in as eBay etc is out the question and with wanting to shift it and once and not do a raffle then your options are very limited

I'm sure a freehold pub/shop would take it off your hands at the right price

[ashleyman]

Join a local For Sale group on Facebook.

List it all with prices and it will go. Everything goes, they're like vultures!

[papa3]

ashleyman said:

Join a local For Sale group on Facebook.

List it all with prices and it will go. Everything goes, they're like vultures!

But be prepared for endless stupid questions, time wasters and insulting offers. We gave away a perfectly good washing machine for free. Needed it gone in a hurry. First 3 enquiries asked if I would deliver and install it. fking loonies.

[djc206]

Shouldn't be hard to shift the spirits and beer on FB although you will probably take a hit on the price.

[sparks85]

Facebook group is a good shout, normally I would steer clear of these (except for car parts!) But this should help us advertise locally. Giving it away isn't an option as we would rather have a chunk of the £1200ish in total back in our pockets.

And as stated (again) we don't have the space to hang on to it.

We're located in SE London but easy reach of the M25 for those who have asked.