James B. Beam

These items are really soft in the market now. I have been picking them up for under $3 and took some to Williams Grove, PA flea market and sold one for $7 and had an inquiry from another person who bought one at 4$ or so he claimed. That is about correct, from what I understand $5 is the going rate now.

http://www.jimbeamclub.com/

This site offers some activity but adding shipping deters sales.

What I did was put a shelf in the garage above the garage door. I have about thirty of the decanters up there. My thoughts are that the demographics of younger consumers is to beer and wine. That with some additional time that these will come back into trend. I accumulate if the bottles go for 2$ or less at auction. That strategy works for me in this current market as I own storage in a rural area, bought and paid for storage. I will take no more than three pieces to a market and offer for sale, if I get my spread Ok, if not I'm accumulating.

I think that there is real attrition occuring in this market where pieces are being lost to the demand currently. I also feel with time that the government similar to cigarette legislation will regulate the industry and or some of the hard liquor vendors will go out of business. The more unusual the decanter and the longer the willingness to hold with in time determine if my strategy is sound or not.

But in conclusion, when everybody was selling ford stock, the market was down, the range of the price of the stock has been $1 to 8$ in the last 52weeks. You cannot do well in any market buying under the greater fool theory, where you buy at a high price and somebody buys at yet a higher, remember cabbage patch dolls??? No the opposite is actually true, you need to buy in markets such as these and hold until market conditions improve.

See the market as it meets your current needs, but the market is soft now for these particular items but bought, cleaned, and stored offer immense longer term value.