After a long wait to chat they said it should not be happening and, if charged for shipping, to notify CS. Something to keep an eye on going forward though.
$50 off $150 or more with free shipping for your first order
I’ve also got a new 21% off coupon for wine access. If I get three referral bonuses by Monday, I’ll post it here ![[drinkers.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/8/82916bed5ad74ac8470bc04089d9758b0c80c9fa.gif "drinkers"){kind=small}
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Wait–did you figure out jolly50 by going though all the random permutations of holly50? Did your grandfather help crack the Enigma code?
Thanks in any case!
But it makes me wonder whether bolly50, golly50, molly50, or polly50 might also work…
Ha!
You can thank my shaky hands from too much wine last night and H being right next to J on the keyboard!
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Where did you find the expiration date?
Is wine.com slowly imploding ?
I have only bought from them using the coupons listed here (interestingly, I have never received a coupon myself, presumably because they’re not trying to entice me back). But even then, I’m sure none of my purchases have been below their costs, and they have still made an OK profit.
I requested wine.com folks for $100 off $300 coupons. They politely declined. Last year, I spent 90% of my budget at wine.com. I am thinking of not renewing Stewardship when it comes up in Jan. Amex has good offers on Benchmark, Vinfolio etc.
Any advice on where else to buy from?
I use WineLibrary. Their shipping is $100 per year and turn around on orders is about a month in covid. They do often have the best pricing i can find, but they run through interesting inventory pretty fast.
Have you tried some of the local shops in Seattle? I lived in Seattle for 10 years and never really felt the need to shop online with few exceptions - but I guess this would depend on what you were looking to buy. German, Champagne, Burgundy, and Rhone - I shopped during the tastings (because they offered additional discounts) of McCarthy & Schiering. There is also a shop around UW that has a good selection of Champagne and Burgundy called University Wines which has very good pricing and stuff you probably won’t find anywhere else since he does a lot of his own importing. For BDX, I would typically go to Total Wine since they have a good selection and if you add the coupons, they were usually at or around the WS lows. Although not in Seattle, Grand Vin has some really good pricing and I would usually just do a run down there every other month and pickup whatever I had bought there over the previous months. They will also ship to Seattle for fairly cheap.
While it never hurts to ask, I don’t find it in any way odd that a retailer would decline to give you 1/3 off coupons, no matter how much you spend. I do understand not renewing if you don’t find you are getting the right value for Stewardship though. I’ve seen the quality of offer decline there over the past 9 months. hard to say whether that is due to tariffs, their own system issues, increased demand, a different purchasing strategy, or some combination of those and/or other factors. Therefore it is hard to know whether the selection will improve or decline in the coming year. That said, it only takes about two to three purchases (depending on the size of the order) to pay for Stewardship so I think it’s low risk.
If I was located in the Pacific NW I imagine that I’d shop quite a bit from Vinopolis, Avalon, and Sec.
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I used to do the pass, and their pricing is much stronger than wine.com, but the selection at WL is terrible compared to what it once was.
I agree the selection is not great. That said, they have a lot of staples and the occasional good bottle that are about 10-40% higher in my market. Obviously the benefits vary by person, but it worked out well for me. Of course, I probably won’t renew in the new year until they get their act together with shipping. TotalWine is giving them a run for their money…
Does VinFolio ever do 15% or more? I saw some codes out there like AUTUMN15 (15%), SUMMER1 (20%), WINE30 (30%) but none worked. The only one that worked was 10% referral code.
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It looks like WA does not allow Krug buyers with coupons anymore. I sent a referral to a buddy of mine that also lives in NYC (same warehouse) and it is out-of-stock for him but in-stock for me. I logged out of my account and also saw that it was out-of-stock.
Sotheby’s has 10% of champagne magnums (CHAMP2020) so Krug 164 down to $400 + tax, free shipping.
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The 15%/20% coupon never work for me, only the referral code 10% works.
My referral code, you can get 10% off. If you have American Express cards, they offering $50 off $250
https://www.talkable.com/x/3XQesN
The AMEX offers are 1) targeted, 2) limited to a certain number, and 3) sometimes card specific. So, not everyone will have this offer on their card.