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But I can’t find one example of someone being arrested for a crime in connection with the shutting down of a black market group. This lack of stringency isn’t surprising. The group I joined is private, but its moderators let me join even though my Facebook page identifies me as a freelance writer and a former editor at Gear Patrol. To paraphrase it: They asked retailers not to mark its price up (they still did), and threatened to sue the enthusiasts who bought and sold it illegally online (they still did it).
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In 2019, Buffalo Trace, whose Antique Collection, Pappy Van Winkle line and Weller series have extremely high demand and extremely low supply, and which therefore represent a sizeable percentage of the bottles bought and sold on these black market groups, released a statement alongside the release of its Pappy Van Winkle bottles.
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In this market, brands can serve as both enablers and narcs. Massive FB groups were co-created by the rabid fans of the Bourbon Boom of the 2000s and early 2010s, who wanted more interesting or rare whiskeys than they could find at their local liquor stores and by brands who build their prestige and profits by keeping production insanely low on their more intriguing releases and by state and federal governments, who want to control the sale of such dangerous things as bottles of bourbon. The factors behind today’s Facebook black market are basically the same as those that drove classifieds, but amplified. Plenty of scotch and Japanese whisky is bought and sold, too. Before that, collectors posted classified ads in newspapers. Before that, most whiskey buying, trading and selling was done on Craigslist, or eBay, before those markets were shut down, too. Before that, there was BX, which succeeded Bourbon Exchange, the first major Facebook whiskey buy/sell/trade group, which was created in 2013 and shut down in 2016. It wasn’t the first secondary whiskey market.
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These are splinters of the previous largest group, BSM, or Bourbon Secondary Market, which was shut down by Facebook in June of 2019, just before 46 state attorneys general signed letters urging Facebook, eBay and Craigslist to crack down on illegal alcohol sales.īSM had run for a handful of years and had upwards of 55,000 members when it was removed. It is one of the largest of the current crop of secret Facebook black market bourbon groups, or as people online call them, “secondary markets,” of which there are quite a few.
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The group I joined has more than 10,000 members. It would have helped find Pappy Van Winkle. I didn’t join the group until later, but now I wish I had right away. It’s been around a while, but I learned about it a few months back, when I started hunting Pappy Van Winkle, one of the rarest bottles of bourbon out there, and someone told me about a group where bottles were bought and sold like hotcakes. There exists, on Facebook, a black market for expensive and rare whiskeys.