Lyle does have good prices, interesting selections and the small lots are useful to explore. For my preferences, they need to reorient their shipping windows to accommodate both logistics of them getting the wines, and appropriate shipping windows for the wines. This shipping in mid May is completely stupid. The window is shut. Just admit it and say that wines will ship in the fall. The fact that they are trying to arrange mid to late May shipping makes them look either stupid or arrogant, and maybe both.
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So, I took the time to listen to the podcast. I donāt see what the issue is. He didnāt say anything that isnāt either true or at least a defensible opinion.
There is a lot of group think on WB as he says. And maybe āhatredā is a tad hyperbolic of him, but we as a community do pile on people, which is what heās saying when he references being āthe main character.ā Just look at the āelite vs massesā thread with two+ pages of parsing the word elite and piling on a guy (to the extent it made people apologize after) when the concept was perfectly clear and people use AFWE all the time here. Or the Costco Palmer thread with a similar situation and the OP getting basically called a thief (before people apologized). I myself have been the subject of disproportionate invectives on at least two threads, with spillover. So, āhatredā may be hyperbole from Lyle but the phenomenon heās describing is very real.
I am again not saying that the experiences recounted by others in this thread arenāt true. But they donāt falsify his criticisms of us or make what he said on the podcast somehow unacceptable.
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Couldnāt agree more. Popped a bottle last night from my last purchase that was sent when it was way, way too hot and the wine was undrinkable. I dropped him in the Spring of 2020. I liked his offerings but this was just like throwing money out the window. Prefer doing business with customer-focused retailers.
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