Is Wine Fake? - Hackdot

Re:Is Wine Fake? by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:36PM (#33700275)

I normally only drink beer but the guy at the bottle shop knows me. He recommended a wine to me the other day, $10. He was right. I grabbed a case for $8 a bottle.

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by oska on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:26PM (#33701891)

I don't mean to sound patronising but my take on this is simply that he's a good salesman who levered up the personal relationship he's established with you

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:38AM (#33702426)

In all my years of shopping with them, he has only ever recommended me a wine on 1 or 2 occasions because I explicitly asked. I get discounts and tastings regularly. They have warned me from buying things more times then they recommend things. They are not trying to “sell” me anything.

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by jstanley on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:02AM (#33704426)

I'm not saying the recommendations are bad, but... it's a shop! Of course they're trying to sell you something!

(Making good recommendations may well be more profitable than making bad recommendations, because if they make bad recommendations you'll stop coming back. But they absolutely are trying to sell you something).

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by thehappypm on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:11AM (#33706627)

So? “Knowing a guy” is always about buying stuff

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