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Beer Swap quarantine!
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November 22nd, 2009Comment
Beer Swap is go...no thanks to collect+
Beer Swap update – beers remanded in custody!
Knut Albert recently posted that some beers he was expecting went missing mid-transit, perhaps as the result of a thirsty beer gnome in Norway’s customs department.
I’ve had my own beer delivery fiasco tonight, whilst trying to collect my #beerswap beers. It seems that the experience of using collect+ to transport our regions finest ales around the UK is providing very different experiences – my first collect+ experience, a trial run for #beerswap, was was a doddle but second time not so lucky – this time the beers I’ve been sent for #beerswap proper have been remanded behind the counter by the newsagent and he is not authorised to relinquish them to my person!
My newsagent is pulling out of the scheme, much to my disappointment, and it’s no wonder when frustrated customers (me) turn up at 7pm on a Sunday evening asking him to hand over the beer!
Apparently the reason he can’t release the beers from his custody is due to an error code ‘payment cancelled’. Hmm, seems strange bearing in mind they’ve gone all the way through the collect+ system without any payment issues?!
So, I’ll be on the phone to collect+ in the morning and probably going around the houses to get my beer (which needs drinking this week!)
A small inconvenience in reality though, Beer Swap is a great example of how the beer community has really come together via the internet – can’t wait to get my beers soon and get writing about them!
UPDATE!!!! 25/11/09
Spoke to collect+ and the issue was apparently resolved, went back to newsagent, same error message. Grrr! Running out of #beerswap drinking time!!
Tags: Beer Swap, collect+I never found out what happened to Knut Albert’s beers but I hope they arrived and weren’t pinched by beer guzzling customs folk!
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What a bugger!! There have been some really mixed results with Collect+. I’ve been fine both ways (except for a smashed bottle). I hope you can sort it over the phone. Don’t tell them it’s got beer in it though, we’re not supposed to send glass and we do it at our own risk (which shouldn’t affect it getting there and back). My fingers are crossed for you!!
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andy mogg November 22nd, 2009 at 20:18