wine-searcher pro price increase

[Sebastian_C]

Let me come home from my six figure job, jump in my Tesla, check time on the gold Rolex before getting home and searing a nice Flannery steak on the custom outdoor grill before selecting a nice Chambertin from my 2000 bottle custom cellar.

What to do next, i know lets complain about $10 on software that has not changed for the last 15 years, bastards have increased 67c a year every year, how am i supposed to pay for Monaco every year with a 67 cent increase !!! damn i might need to sell a bottle of DRC to pay my next 200 years of subscription

Sometimes one should take a deep breath and maybe take a walk before pressing the “submit” button.

[Alan_Eden]

Let me come home from my six figure job, jump in my Tesla, check time on the gold Rolex before getting home and searing a nice Flannery steak on the custom outdoor grill before selecting a nice Chambertin from my 2000 bottle custom cellar.

What to do next, i know lets complain about $10 on software that has not changed for the last 15 years, bastards have increased 67c a year every year, how am i supposed to pay for Monaco every year with a 67 cent increase !!! damn i might need to sell a bottle of DRC to pay my next 200 years of subscription

Sometimes one should take a deep breath and maybe take a walk before pressing the “submit” button.

Sometimes a bit of fun is OK, not exactly a scathing attack

[Markus_S]

With the issue of many retailers no longer shipping to my state, I no longer subscribe.

+1…

[Jayson_Cohen]

I consider it an essential tool for this pursuit, and have no issue with the current cost, nor with increases now and then. I use it to check market prices more often than I do to locate a wine I want to buy.

+1. I also use it to gauge auction prices relative to retail price (if available at retail).

[Cris_Whetstone]

Is the pro version any more accurate when it comes to inventories? I’ve learned the hard way to check the store’s website every time. Too many times wines have been shown on the free version of W-S that were sold out long ago.

wine-searcher has nothing to do with inventories, they rely on the store to supply them by various methods and the most often is daily for merchants that pay and use a data feed.

At one point, they were scraping data, no? I can’t think most stores are doing this daily, based on my experiences. Too many times I’ve schlepped across town to find a bottle only to discover that the last one was sold a long time ago and I stupidly didn’t check directly on the store’s website.

I think I’m not certain as to why what W-S claims vs the stores is relevant. You have to place your order through the store’s site anyway.

Which is where I’ve hit problems. Retailers are not always diligent about updating their inventories. I’ve had two orders canceled in the last year because the retailer did not have the wine in stock and claimed they could not source it. It’s not a real big deal but it does seem more annoying since I used a data scraper to get there.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

wine-searcher has nothing to do with inventories, they rely on the store to supply them by various methods and the most often is daily for merchants that pay and use a data feed.

At one point, they were scraping data, no? I can’t think most stores are doing this daily, based on my experiences. Too many times I’ve schlepped across town to find a bottle only to discover that the last one was sold a long time ago and I stupidly didn’t check directly on the store’s website.

I think I’m not certain as to why what W-S claims vs the stores is relevant. You have to place your order through the store’s site anyway.

Which is where I’ve hit problems. Retailers are not always diligent about updating their inventories. I’ve had two orders canceled in the last year because the retailer did not have the wine in stock and claimed they could not source it. It’s not a real big deal but it does seem more annoying since I used a data scraper to get there.

Some stores quote inventory available at the distributor, without the distributor having it in stock.

[David_Bu3ker]

After a few years I realized that a solid relationship with a few great shops was more important, and got me almost everything I wanted to buy. That’s when I ditched WS. All my retail buying comes from a total of four places.

[Jordan_D]

Is there a reason I am seeing wine-searcher pro at $65? I’m in Canada but it says it showing the price in USD? I’d be much happier to pay $39. Difference is a decent Tuesday night wine!

EDIT - Never mind! I only read the first few posts and didn’t notice this was an old thread. So I guess my data point would be that I’m in acquisition mode but have not yet pulled the trigger at current pricing.

[Josh_Espinosa]

From my experience, WS has more than paid itself back on the return given the limited shipping options due to NY and prices locally I’ve found only through the app that I wouldn’t find otherwise.

[Jayson_Cohen]

From my experience, WS has more than paid itself back on the return given the limited shipping options due to NY and prices locally I’ve found only through the app that I wouldn’t find otherwise.

You do raise a good point that WS is particularly valuable in NYC for a number of reasons, including the ones you identify.

Another is we are lucky to get a lot of wines that are hard to find elsewhere in the US and many go on the retail shelf (i.e., are not just sold on pre-shelf offers) but different retailers price these wines drastically differently. I am often surprised by the high-low difference just in the NYC area, and WS helps save $$ given how many stores we have access to and (potential) relationships with in a relatively small geographic area.

The alerts are also helpful to find hard to source wines. I have also been surprised by how many hits on these (when there are hits) are in the NYC area.

[Eric_LeVine]

I stopped subscribing when they put a limit on searches. Looks like they’ve removed it so may renew my subscription.

Before, if you searched multiple wines too quickly, it would time you out because it thought you were a robot (same with CT).

That is not quite correct on the CT front. We rely on a vendor that uses THOUSANDS of data points to determine if browsing is human or robotic. If you hit it too hard, you have to fill a CAPTCHA every few hundred searches. You only start to get blocked if you enter multiples of those incorrectly, or if you are using script blockers, TOR endpoints or doing things to intentionally disrupt the system. I cannot speak to Wine-Searcher, but they at one point had a clearly published LIMIT on the number of searches you could generate. CT has no such limit.