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Maifax

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Looking for inspiration on how i can turn my staff benefits into cold hard cash..

I work in the alcohol industry and am always getting bottles of wines and spirits given to me to try at home - but i'm teetotal & the wife barely drinks, so these are just building up i& up n my cupboard.

Friends & family know i get huge discount/freebies so it would be a bit difficult/anti-social trying to sell onto them & because of the licensing laws i can't sell it to gen public or via ebay etc.
The only place i have found i could sell it is the WhiskeyExchange - which i don't want to do whilst i'm still employed in the industry & could potentially risk my job.

So far i've been using them for gifting - which does save a bunch of cash, but i'm still building a huge surplus!

Any other ideas on how i could flip these products for cash?

Would be cool to hear if anyone has found a way to profit from their staff perks too
 
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What spirits are you getting? I'll buy some off you depending on what they are @Maifax !
 

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Would it be difficult and a pain in the bum to have a raffle and raffle them off? Get people to buy tickets, there’s your cold hard cash and then the prize is the alcohol?

Maybe start your own Facebook group? Do you need a licence to hold raffles? Maybe!? I’m not sure about all the legalities of raffles to be honest but that’s the only thing I could think off!

It’s a good time of year to be selling alcohol though, in the run up to Christmas people buy more alcohol than normal. I’ll keep thinking and see if I can come up with anything else. :)
 
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I won't share specifics with it being a public forum and all that - so will DM ya
 

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I won't share specifics with it being a public forum and all that - so will DM ya

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How would you risk losing your job as you've mentioned in the first post if you are being GIVEN these spirits as a gift to do with as you please?
 

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How would you risk losing your job as you've mentioned in the first post if you are being GIVEN these spirits as a gift to do with as you please?

I may be being over dramatic there - but it's a risk i'm happy to manage around rather than take.
 

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Are they known makers and decent wine with years (not just Aldi type booze where you wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle long enough to fill it up) If its decent stuff you could let it build up a bit and put it into a local auction. One lot of wines and one of spirits.
 

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He's been kind enough to DM me what they are selling and it's good quality stuff but as he's mentioned to me, postage on those weights would be a killer lol
 

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Are they known makers and decent wine with years (not just Aldi type booze where you wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle long enough to fill it up) If its decent stuff you could let it build up a bit and put it into a local auction. One lot of wines and one of spirits.
That's not a bad shout.
It's all brand name stuff, though if I'm taking that route I should get some of our whiskeys as I loads of white spirits right now
 

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Would any of your friends buy them at a reduced rate? I am thinking about 30 - 40% of what they would pay. I've bought things from friends who were given items as gifts - shop worker who was given a lot of tins of biscuits/boxes of chocolate/bottles of wine at Christmas.
 

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Would any of your friends buy them at a reduced rate? I am thinking about 30 - 40% of what they would pay. I've bought things from friends who were given items as gifts - shop worker who was given a lot of tins of biscuits/boxes of chocolate/bottles of wine at Christmas.

A couple of them have taken/bought things off me & a mate took 8 bottles for a party once - that might actually be the route to take - sell in semi bulk to people running parties or local events.
 

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A couple of them have taken/bought things off me & a mate took 8 bottles for a party once - that might actually be the route to take - sell in semi bulk to people running parties or local events.
Back when I worked in a pub in the late 90’s early 2000, the landlord would occasionally purchase bottles of spirits from people who certainly didn’t just pinched them from the local Tesco’s.

Maybe find an independent pub/friendly landlord and offer them a deal. As long as they are bottles with the correct labels then there should be no issues.

The hassle of doing small deals/postage/etc just doesn’t seem worth it.
 

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Would it be difficult and a pain in the bum to have a raffle and raffle them off? Get people to buy tickets, there’s your cold hard cash and then the prize is the alcohol?

Maybe start your own Facebook group? Do you need a licence to hold raffles? Maybe!? I’m not sure about all the legalities of raffles to be honest but that’s the only thing I could think off!

It’s a good time of year to be selling alcohol though, in the run up to Christmas people buy more alcohol than normal. I’ll keep thinking and see if I can come up with anything else. :)

Raffles and the like are against Facebook's ToS, and yes, you do need a gambling licence. People who've been running this kind of thing and taking payments through Paypal have lost their accounts, including all money within it, and have been banned from ever opening another one, so it's not worth it.
 

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