K&L is excited to return to your state through a new partnership with RareStorage. Focused on collectors, RareStorage has entered into a new arrangement with K&L to serve you. This unique collaboration is specifically designed to offer a renewed look at the K&L inventory.
You now have the option to select RareStorage at checkout at K&L. By doing so, your property will be transferred to our storage partner, RareStorage. They are a separate company, specializing in the secure storage of your personal property. They can also help you make arrangements to self-import your own possessions. Learn more at RareStorage.com
Once your K&L order gets picked and processed, it gets turned over to them. At that point, RareStorage will be in touch with you to arrange for either storage or shipment of your order. We maintain a close working relationship with them to ensure seamless processing of your orders.
Well, this partnership structure is all in CA, so it really isn’t shipping to NY. You are now simply arranging to have Rare Storage ship to NY, presumably after charging some fees to take possession and store your order in CA. This is their way of getting around shipping issues that could cost K&L their liquor license if they handled the shipping themselves and NY pursued enforcement against them.
I’m currently living in TX and received this same email. I’m guessing this arrangement opened up a number of states where K&L couldn’t ship directly. I think Chuck accurately described this partnership and I’m assuming any out-of-staters using it will pay CA sales tax. I’ll be interested to see what the total cost ultimately is …
K&L needs to also ship to Nevada (Las Vegas valley) during the cooler months. Retail wine options here are not great believe it or not. I spent a fortune with K&L whilst I lived in California for 14 years and greatly miss that.
I sent an email to K&L but havent heard back yet - wondering if any regular K&L buyers might have any insight.
I have a few bottles I bought through K&L Acutions currently at RareStorage. I want to buy some bottles from the K&L retail side, have them consolidated with my auction bottles at RareStorage and have them shipped together. From what I can tell on both the K&L and RareStorage websites, this should be doable. But when I go to check out on K&L, I’m not given the option to send it to RareStorage. I get my home and work addresses already in their system, or will call and their 4 store locations.
Perhaps I can help with some information. I live in NYC and do a fair amount of business with K&L and have all my wines sent to Rare storage because K&L doesn’t ship to NY otherwise. Rare storage who has your wines has a site called rare storage vault where you should be able to see your wines and set up shipping from there. Is it confusing,100%. You also can’t get to their site from the K&L site even though it says rare storage…
You should also know that Rare storage doesn’t not send any wine via air so no 2nd or 3rd day delivery. They only ship via ground and in this hot weather it’s really a bad idea. I only know this because I was going to ship wine via Air and they told me they only do ground which was annoying. Hope this helps.
Very likely they are using We Ship Express (Features | WeShip Express). Those are the only six states WSE can’t ship to. Hordes of retailers use WSE to skirt interstate shipping problems.
