Closing the doors? The backbar still owes you money.
Last service is done, the lease is ending or the concept is changing, and there's a wall of bottles between you and being finished. Distributors take back only so much, and the auction crowd wants the whole lot for pennies. The collectible shelf, the allocated bourbon, the rare agave: that deserves its own buyer, and that's us.
What owners winding down actually ask us.
Closures run on exhaustion and deadlines. These are the three questions we hear from behind every bar, answered straight.
“Is selling the good bottles this way even okay for a business like mine?”
Completely aboveboard. We buy from businesses winding down all the time: the shipping and the paperwork are handled end to end on our side, everything travels on our prepaid, insured labels, and the sale is documented in a way your accountant will genuinely appreciate. You're selling inventory to an established buyer. That's the whole transaction.
“I don't have time to inventory three hundred bottles during a closure.”
Then don't. Walk the backbar with your phone, shoot the shelves wide, and send the photos. We'll pick out what carries value, quote it as a group, and tell you plainly which bottles aren't worth the freight. Owners in a closure are always shorter on time than on bottles, and the process is built around that.
“How fast can this actually happen? I hand back the keys soon.”
Fast enough to beat most closing timelines. The quote turns around quickly, kits and labels follow right behind it, payment lands after inspection, and the entire collectible shelf can be out the door before the final walkthrough. Give us the key-return date and we'll build the schedule to it.
Turn the backbar into a check.
Photograph the shelves, tell us the timeline, and we'll quote the collectible stock free. Most quotes returned within 24 hours.
- Quotes within 48 hours, guaranteed
- Insured shipping both ways, on us
- No fees taken from your payout, ever
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