Sure thing, chief.

( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:04, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Ok then explain why I can buy wine bottles at about £10 for 15 and corks for about 15p each.
At home I'm 1/3rd the price of your quoted bottling figure.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:12, Reply)

I must be super efficient without any machinery.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:13, Reply)

Maybe I should pay myself £40 an hour with my hand corker.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:14, Reply)

Or people to pay, or land to rent, or much in the way of any kind of overheads at all.

( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:14, Reply)

Then say overheads not bottling.
Then try to understand that the overheads on a mail order, bulk sell specialist business will be different than other places to get wine.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:17, Reply)

Ah, a semantic argument.
OK, nice work. You're much cleverer than me.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:18, Reply)

Arguing about the value of a product then quoting a figure that is wrong is more than just semantics.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:20, Reply)

It's not wrong
he's separated the "cost of the actual drunk product" which varies with quality and the "cost of everything else associated with conveying that prodcut to a drinker's gob" which, of course, doesn't particularly. He's just called it bottling costs to simplify, and you are just trying to win through semantics.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:24, Reply)

Most unlike him to not understand what he's banging on about.

( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:25, Reply)

Those fixed costs are SIGNIFICANTLY different by buying cases of 12, paying delivery seperatly and getting it from a specialist wine club.
To the point that him saying that they account for £3 of the £6.99 bottle is meaningless.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:27, Reply)

You mean distribution, unpacking from the cases of 6 or 12 that they are shipped in, and stacking on a shelf?
OK, I'll concede that extra penny per bottle.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:29, Reply)

And the cost of the possibly hundreds of local sites rather than one or two national warehouses.
The staffing costs?
It's the difference between amazon and your local bookshops.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:31, Reply)

I think you might be blobbing.
Calm down, eh, petal?
( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:32, Reply)

You just don't understand anything.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:33, Reply)

Haha, yes, sweetheart.
This definitely looks like another victory for Team Chompy, here.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:34, Reply)

If Amazon only sold books.
In the same way that Tesco only sells wine. Oh, wait.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 13:35, Reply)