Fait-Main absurdly high shipping rates

I am a fan of Fait-Main and want to keep supporting Beniot and the team.

They released their 2018 allocation recently and I wanted to purchase 6 bottles @375 for a 3 pack.

Total cost for 6 bottles is 750usd but the shipping to Oregon I was quoted 280usd. That comes down to 47usd shipping for a 125 bottle.

Is that normal?

Unless it’s delivered in a Lambo and by your favorite celebrity… No

$280 to ship approx 20 pounds, via ground, from northern CA to Oregon? Seems a bit high to me!

That has to be a mistake. Perhaps you selected overnight by mistake ?

No one would pay $45 per bottle to ship.

:thinking: Something’s not right.
I have a 3 pack of Fait Main Missouri Hopper shipping Oct 19th to Kansas FeEx Ground: $37.41

I already have a tracking number and it looks like they bumped me up to 2 day. :blush:

As others have said, that must be a mistake. It was around 75 for me on the east coast for 6 bottles.

ALL of the above prices quoted are too high honestly. paying more than $10 a btl to ship is just really obnoxious.

Unless it’s overnighting or maybe OWC’s this is absurd. For what it’s worth, I felt like Teeter Totter had high shipping, too, and passed directly from the winery for same price bottles + free shipping via Wine Access. I just checked and while they have a nice 15% off for the wines at the moment, it’s $48 for ground shipping on 6 bottles.

Such is the cost of shipping wine. Get licensed and find out for yourself.

It is obviously a mistake - as others have said, that is probably overnight rates. And probably includes an OWC which increases the cost

I just got word that both UPS and FED EX are charging a surcharge for all shipments from Nov thru early January so expect to see even higher prices.

Cheers.

You probably mistakenly selected personal delivery by Beniot following by a guided tasting at your place.

Seems very high even for overnight. Likely a mistake as others have noted

Here is a dummy estimate for FedEx from here in Sonoma County to a random address in Portland. This is for a 3 pk shipper in size, 10lbs weight which is probably light for high end Napa Cab, $375 value. Note this is not shipped as wine which carries a higher surcharge. Overnight is expen$ive. If it’s going cold chain it’s even more expensive. Add $7 per 3-pack shipper carton plus fulfillment Co. labor charge.

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i never mentioned ‘cost’ of shipping wine. i know what the cost is, it doesn’t require licensure. call me a naive consumer, but i thoroughly enjoy when wineries offer ‘free’ [saxum] or ‘discounted’ [patria] shipping. even not charging tax makes it move for me.
my biggest issues are mandatory 2 day shipping and owc’s, and to a certain degree charging tax on shipping after the fact.
im aware of the cost of shipping-but the actual cost and how that’s presented for the buyer to pay for are generally very different things.

So if they bump the price of the wine by $15/btl and offer free shipping you’re all warm and fuzzy? What’s the f’ing difference?

re: bold above - not sure how things work in NC, but to ship wine [legally] in/from CA you must have a valid shipping license. it’s been that way for at least a year, and possibly longer.

i answered this already essentially. with that being said, evaluating cost out the door is fairly easy but that’s a separate issue from what i mentioned.

I’ve purchased a case of wine from a retailer in California and had it shipped to Ohio at a cost of $40. I’ve purchased directly from a California winery and had a case shipped to me for $64, just now. I also have a case coming from another winery that cost me $200 to ship. The winery charging $64 is not subsidizing the shipping cost. I asked them. The wines will ship UPS or FedEx and arrive at the same time in the same condition. Even though the shipping cost won’t stop me from buying, I feel better about the winery that charges close to what it actually costs to ship the wine.

that makes sense and I agree, it’s more transparent and thus comes off as more honest. with that being said, if i ask 4 different wineries what’s the ‘cost’ of shipping a case of wine, id get 5 different answers.

Strange, my fait-main order is shipping this week to Atlanta, 2-day for $38. I have no idea why your price would be so high?