Ebay is for me a way to find nice items for my collection. I do not collect large bottles for the content but only the mini''s and collectibles which aren't even opened by me. I do not search for bottles from the 60s or 70s. For me is what a good liquorstore can offer, enough for me. I have found some good stores in my country and in Germany. But as i collect minis i can understand that people collect the biggies as well. I always find it a waste to poor hard to find whiskey in a glass and in the end flush it away. Then it'll be gone forever. But that's my opnion.
I don't care if a bottle increases in value over the years, i collect stuff because I like it. I want a bottle just for the completion of the collection no matter what the value in time will be.
I have learned that value of someting is only then regonised when actually paid for. I mean if you have a bottle with a value of 100 dollars and when you sell it nobody wants to pay that amount for it, what is the value then?
Your postal service does not allow sending alcohol outside the US. I do not understand why. Luckily for me not every person obeys their policy.
I can send alcohol with our postal service anywhere i want in the world ( if allowed in the receptors country) and i do not see why not, Taxes? Taxes were paid when i bought the bottle.
About breaking the law-- It is only a collectible and bought and sold that way . It is not that you are a reseller who sells large quantities. You have to see things in perspective. Does it make any sense in what i wrote? ( if not , see it as culture issue
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Just found this one which for i think is a bit overpriced.
http://cgi.ebay.nl/JIM-BEAM-MILLIONTH-B ... dZViewItem