so a little update on my corner store shithole that was slowly turning into a honeyhole.
the short version - this glorified 7-11 had a stagg, jr sitting on the counter for $60 in like november. he said he doesn't get much good stuff, but was happy to hold it back for me. a couple weeks later he got an eht straight rye for $89. he went through this whole song and dance about how he knows other stores gouge people on allocated bottles, but he doesn't like to do that.
so he said his deliveries come on fridays, and to call him every friday. i have been. around christmas, he got 3 weller 12's and an old rip van winkle 10. he was telling me this over the phone as i was putting my shoes on to literally run down there (it's down the hill on the corner), but then he told me the w12 were $199 and the rip was $600. "but he could cut me a deal". i said we were so far off, it wasn't worth negotiating.
i've been calling every friday since, and this past friday i called, and nothing. but then a couple hours go by, and he called me back around 4pm, and said he got a couple of bottles of stagg, jr. i said sweet, and started mentally thinking about whether i would buy both, probably i would. then he said, "the stagg, jr is $199".
i was like, "ok, what? the same stagg, jr you sold me for $60 like 2 months ago?" he said yeah, last time we got a case, but this time we only got two bottles. that shit is not true, he told me when i bought the stagg that it popped up by itself, and that they don't get many bottles. he's also told me since then that because of our conversations, he's been pushing his distributor, and getting a lot more bottles.
so this turncoat mother fucker is now operating exactly like the secondary stores that he was shitting on like 10 weeks ago. and he's only getting better bottles because i pushed him to ask for them. so i'm making him more money, getting fewer bottles from him, and have eliminated this store from potential honeyhole status.
he killed my spirit. my spirit blood is on his hands.