Amazon wine, now serving
Amazon Wine
The site appears very similar to what had been discovered previously (read how it works for wineries) and offers exclusively domestic wines with orders fulfilled by wineries. Shipping is $9.99 for up to six bottles and you can only order from one winery per order. Customers in only 12 states can order wine at this time. As of this second, there are 1,054 wines available for purchase, sortable by point scores, price, and even alcohol level. External links to retailers are also available, greatly expanding that number and adding imported wines.
It will be interesting to see how the program does. In general, wineries do not offer the best prices for their wines; retailers do. A quick search of a few wines plugged into wine-searcher, a database of wine retailers, revealed pre-shipping prices 10-25% lower than those offered on amazon.
While the pricing may be underwhelming, one area that Amazon Wine
On November 8th, 2012 at 4:02 pm ,RobinC wrote:
I want to get the 6 bottles for $9.99, but N.M. is not on the shipping list yet. It appears that we have a law that restricts bottle purchases to 24 a year. It seems to me that that regulation is not well-known or well-followed.
On November 8th, 2012 at 6:12 pm ,Matt wrote:
Hope the business does well enough that they are willing to fight to get into all 50 states (which they ought to be able to do, shipping just from wineries).
On November 10th, 2012 at 1:30 pm ,Dave Erickson wrote:
“A quick search of a few wines plugged into wine-searcher, a database of wine retailers, revealed pre-shipping prices 10-25% lower than those offered on amazon.”
What is every retailer’s objection to Amazon? PRICE. If Amazon is not the low-price leader in the category, this adventure will be a brief one. Everything else, including leadership in reviews, hinges on this aspect of the business.
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