I find it a travesty that we haven't talked about one of our heroes lately. To my unanticipated delight, however, I saw a post on one of the wine websites I frequent regarding Wine Interstate Shipping Laws (it's illegal to ship interstate to 29 states due to archaic bullshit laws), which brought her back to life.
Here's the post:
Well, Mr. Bergsund, here is what you have managed to immediately accomplish if you are still monitoring this blog. I have just cancelled an $11,000+ order to wine.com that I still was not through completing and I will no longer be ordering any wine from your business in the future, and I order a LOT of wine. Additionally, I have contributed $1,000 to the Specialty Wine Retailers Association in order for them to combat the laws that you are so cleverly using to punish your competition. If there are any of you who feel the same way, go to the SWRA website and contribute as well.
If you are really serious that you are "as frustrated with state laws as you(we) are", then match my donation to the Specialty Wine Retailers Association so that we can create a level playing field the "American Way", rather than conducting a sting operation against other internet wine retailers.
Your preferred way, apparently, is the way many businesses circumvent a level playing field by getting legislatures to pass laws favoring certain businesses or by crippling others. It is clear that you have not been involved in passing laws of this nature, but it appears to me that you are certainly willing to take advantage of the ones that are on the books rather than assisting in eliminating these types of laws to the benefit of the consumer.
If anyone has a hard time following my previous logic, do a Google search on Ayn Rand and, more specifically, John Gault.
cheers! (in both senses),
-timmy
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