We Buy Bottles

You won the bottle. Now what?

The store raffle came through: Pappy, Stagg, an Eagle Rare 17. Now you’re holding a bottle worth more than your ticket by a mile. If you’d rather have the cash than the pour, there’s a right way to do it, and it doesn’t involve a forum.

Why winners skip the flip forums.

The cash-app stranger is the risky path

That bourbon group buyer with the payment app? No name, no record, no reason to treat you fairly once the bottle leaves your hands. Selling to an established buyer puts the whole trade on paper: a real company, real people, payment after inspection.

Forum flips are where scams live

Fake payments, chargebacks after shipping, 'the bottle arrived broken' claims with someone else's photo. You won this bottle; you shouldn't have to gamble it on a stranger's honesty.

Shipping alcohol yourself is its own problem

Carriers only move alcohol through their own alcohol programs, and the 'label it vinegar' trick risks the package vanishing with no insurance behind it. Our prepaid kits travel inside those programs, insured door to door.

A real offer beats a forum haggle

One written number within 48 hours, guaranteed, no obligation. Compare it with anything a flipper whispers, then decide with both numbers in hand.

We buy exactly these bottles and can prove it.

Raffle prizes are almost always Van Winkle and Antique Collection bottles. Below: our real, recent purchases of exactly those. Yours would be in good company.

George T. Stagg
LOT 0749

George T. Stagg

Uncut and unfiltered

Acquired August 2026

Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year
LOT 0418

Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year

90.4 proof

Acquired September 2025

Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year
LOT 0361

Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year

95.6 proof

Acquired September 2025

Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year
LOT 0343

Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year

107 proof

Acquired June 2025

Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 Year Lot B
LOT 0248

Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 Year Lot B

90.4 proof

Acquired December 2024

Keep the raffle receipt if you have it. Provenance never hurts. Then check our Trustpilot reviews and the full purchase record.

One bottle is enough. No minimums, no “only collections” fine print.

A single raffle bottle gets the same treatment as an estate: a written offer, most returned within 24 hours, a prepaid insured shipping kit, payment right after inspection, typically about a week end to end. Don’t open it, keep the tag and box if it came with them, and store it upright out of the sun until it ships.

See the full process

Cash in the win, the clean way.

Name the bottle and the release year if you know it. Most quotes returned within 24 hours, and you decide from there.

  • Quotes within 48 hours, guaranteed
  • Insured shipping both ways, on us
  • No fees taken from your payout, ever

Prefer email? Write to hello@webuybottles.com; a real person reads every message.

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Your Bottles*Qty

Brand, proof, age, batch: whatever the label says.

Photos (optional)

Phone photos are fine; labels and fill levels help most.

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Optional. If a friend sent you, their code credits them.

Quotes are free, no obligation. Most quotes returned within 24 hours. Payment issued after inspection.

Prefer to skip the form? Text photos of your bottles to (202) 902-9935.