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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: Funda on March 08, 2012, 11:33 pm

Title: Absinthe
Post by: Funda on March 08, 2012, 11:33 pm
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in buying absinthe? I am not completely sure that I can offer it without being intercepted yet, as I do not have the personal experience in shipping alcohol, but from some brief research it looks like many people have done so successfully before.

I can get pretty much any type or brand you can research, they are sold by the bottle or in a set with tongs,sinthe spoon, and glass.

The price range on the stuff is anywhere from $20-$100 off the shelf (the price I would be paying), the exact brand and type makes a pretty noticeable difference. I would only be adding around $10-$15 to what I pay to cover the shipping/gas I use and a little extra. I was just daydreaming the other day and figured this may be something helpful to the community that could get me into bitcoins.

I'll gather info on some popular stuff if enough of you peeps think its an idea worth trying.  Unfortunately I won't have a ton of money to tie up in it right off the bat but if things go well I wouldn't mind starting a little side thing going here. I'd like to eventually offer cid here but the only way I can get it for a decent price is to by 2 vials for $1500 which comes out to $7.50 a hit for me :P

Any thoughts or comments related to shipping alcohol through the postal system would be appreciated as well.
Title: Re: Absinthe
Post by: baxterbrew on March 09, 2012, 12:07 am
Sounds great. This would be a huge hit with all of my friends.
Title: Re: Absinthe
Post by: tordemon on March 09, 2012, 01:51 am
Sounds great. This would be a huge hit with all of my friends.
I've been wanting to get some absinthe for a while. I'd think as long as the container is relatively full, they likely won't notice that there's a liquid inside of it. My GBL container made it through customs fine. Any chance I could ask where you'd be shipping from, though?
Title: Re: Absinthe
Post by: CasualX on March 09, 2012, 03:13 am
This topic timing is perfect, since I've been tossing around an idea.

I have a actual bottle of Absinthe (Pernod Fils) from the Tarragona distillery dated to around the time of the original ban in France. The bottle dates back to between 1913-1916. This is they were forced out of France and rely on the distillery in Spain since it was still legal there.

The bottle itself is sealed, though due to age and the poor conditions in which it was stored, there has been some evaporation. The condition of the labels and bottle are pretty good, and it's genuine. Back around the turn of this century I paid about $2000.00 for it. I've seen bottles going for around 3-4 thousand amongst dealers and auction sites.

I'm curious if anyone would be interested in this at all, either for BTC or trade?

PM me, or post here and I'll try to get in touch.
Title: Re: Absinthe
Post by: Tobacco2012 on March 09, 2012, 12:03 pm
Speaking of Absinthe.

Apart from tobacco ( i would like to start trading, as long as there is more feedback) I do have access to another product. It is not "Absinthe - the 70%vol liquor" I cant imagine sending vodka in package, The shipping cost would be huge, fragile bottle has to be properly protected that would make big cost for that.

Plus most of the Absinthe sold in retail stores (even in Europe) have thujon level of 7 - 40 mg/liter. Which is only for coloring and strong bitter artemisium taste.
I have in mind the Absinthe Extract - condensed essence for creating the original absinth. One have to mix the 10ml bottle of extract with any alcohol with power of 50% or greater (best is 70%), let it stay for one week and ready to drink. The thujon level (which is main ingredient of the absinth) is 250 - 350 mg/10ml extract. Its purpose is to create 0.7 liter of an absinthe so the thujon level per liter would be 350 - 500 mg per liter. (it is not lethal, only if you would drink this extract directly from the bottle or consume 2 liters of prepared liquor) but it has or should have 70% vol, so You probably intoxicate quicker than die.
I'm using it all the time, thou it last for long, you just need two drinks to feel good, relaxed and peacefully, where normal vodka makes you be more aggressive. And if you drink to much you can cut off your ear, as did Van Gogh,

Any interest on that?
Title: Re: Absinthe
Post by: UnWizard on February 04, 2013, 07:46 am
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