Acker Online Auctions Question

Leaving aside how you feel about doing business with them - if you bid in their online auctions and the wine is located in Hong Kong, are you responsible for any other fees or shipping and handling charges then what you would have if it was a NYC located lot?

Thanks in advance.

No. They ship the wine to NY in their periodic reefer containers at no cost to the buyer and then ship from NY to you for the regular shipping cost. There is typically a delay of a month or two for the wines to get state-side.

Are you bidding on the Grand Rue ???

You pay 23% commission for that. :slight_smile:

Well how did you do ?

Got what I wanted. That La Grand Rue hammered out pretty high. $500 I believe. You’ve had it correct? Worth near that?

I did a couple years ago. Also purchased from Acker online but greater ullage. If it’s worth $500 is a personal question but it was a killer bottle and four of us were cooing over it. I did drop out here though mostly because I was buying some other bottles this week.

What vintage?

1959

Getting back to the original question regarding “Hong Kong Lots,” I asked Acker directly about this and was first told that they ship HK lots after every auction, needing about 12 weeks to arrive in NY, but that answer was later clarified as follows:

I just want to jump in here to clarify. The containers are shipped back approximately 3-4 weeks after every live sale, not every internet sale. Our next HK Live sale is September 13th so we anticipate the wine to depart Hong Kong in mid-October. It takes approximately 42 days in transit so I would estimate the wine to arrive in our New York warehouse sometime by the end of November or beginning of December. Once it is available, you will receive an email from our Logistics Department to make final arrangements.

So . . . about 4 months later you get your wine . . .