Is there a Ships To: pull down? I only ever see the one that shows Shops Location.
neither of these scenarios seem that great for retailers. unless iâm missing the inherent lift.
Yes.
If you live in Michigan, and select retailers from your state, or ones that ship into your state. (and so on)
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Iâd guess that the point is to not rely on retailers for their primary revenue stream any longer and to focus on turning the web traffic from consumers into revenue.
They have 33,000 vendors, Iâm not sure what percentage of them are sponsored. But that number must be dwarfed by the amount of monthly visitors the site gets - which they say is 5 million.
Plus if youâre a company with things to sell, like Flaviar is, having consumers stop and pay you rather than the retailer is a great way to capture all their customers payment information and sales behavior if you decide to someday market your own wine offering in addition to your spirits samplers/clubs/private labels/what have you.
If I was a retailer, I would be seriously bummed out. I would probably also be looking at moving my business online-only instead of brick and mortar in order to compensate for what are sure to be diminishing margins.
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Got it now, I never used it because thereâs no need to see what Ohio retailers have on their shelves. Lol
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It is possible to get around this but I donât think it is a good business strategy.
I agree with the raw seo perspective but again I donât think this is good business strategy. In Germany if you put Ulysse Collin in google you get a lot of offers. Go to the site and nothing is available. For me I have no interest in exploring futher which in turn is not good for the sites bounce rate.
What strikes me with googe and with the seo analytics, from our perspective is how much searchs are for educational purposes rather than transactional purposes. The art is turning educational searchs into transactional searches.
In terms of this thread, there is a lot of speculation, the text on wine searcher is very vague. Where are all of these theories coming from?
Rampant speculation, where else? Thatâs what we do best here? Please visit more often
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I donât know how long this pseudo-advertisement has been popping up on the Wine-Searcher website, but I only just noticed it tonight:
It suggests to me that Flaviar has very large plans for Wine-Searcher [and that Flaviar will be paying massive fees to federal politicians & state regulatory bodies in order to see their plans through to fruition].
In fact, itâs quite easy to imagine an anti-trust lawsuit in the near future.
Or at least it would have been easy to have imagined, back in the day, when we still had anti-trust law in this country.
Itâs certainly a very bold move on the part of Flaviar.
Flaviar is still advertising hard liquor on the Wine-Searcher website.
One would think that moving hard liquor across state lines would be a tremendous legalistic challenge.
I think the work around is doing it through a licensed partner in the state.
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not sure the mechanics but smws has been shipping with no issues ( that i am aware of) for years
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Lately Iâve noticed some oddity with the W-S links on CT. While the CT button used to show a relatively reliable price, that is no longer the case. The button displays a price that may be related to listings from Europe or to other vintages of the wine, even where there are listings for that vintage available. Is this something which can be addressed in W-S settings?
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In CT display settings you can tweak your WHERE TO BUY location.
https://www.cellartracker.com/displayoptions.asp
Settings UNITED STATES instead of USE MY CURRENT LOCATION runs down a different path.
The underlying W-S API will âautoexpandâ scope at times based upon availability. It is ⌠complex.
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Thanks Eric. Though I wonder why theyâre showing me a price for different vintages, even though there are retailers offering the vintage in question. That goes for both the price displayed on the button on CT and the prices shown in the pop up window when I click the button. It has only started doing this in the past week or so. Before that it showed, with relative reliability, correct price and vintage. I say relative only because there were times no price would appear in the button even for widely available wines, but clicking through always brought up the correct information.
Feel free to send a note with specific wines to support@cellartracker.com
W-S makes changes to their APIâs, and we have made some changes on CT (for the popup window).
Also curious if you have OAuth linked your accounts here: My Subscriptions - CellarTracker
That is useful if you are a PRO subscriber, as then we are able to honor that.
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Iâve also noticed this happening. (Just to provide another data point.)
@Eric_LeVine The next time I see it for a specific wine, Iâll be sure to email support.
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I have a Pro subscription and I havenât seen these yet. Wonder what the economics are for the retailers
Note that I donât think itâs available on mobile yet.
I was going to reply to Yaacov and ask the same thing.
itâs like they are trying to do what Flaviar or Frootbat does, but the platform itself doesnât lend itself to that???
It shows up in the pro version as well.
I stand corrected - just searched the wine in the example and the offer shows up. I donât really understand this model as it doesnât seem to showcase a special price or âofferâ. It also doesnât show up in the standard window when you search on desktop. I realize this might be a âpilotâ launch.
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