Troubled Wine Startup Lot18 Has A New CEO en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:50:26 -0400 Owen Thomas Beveragetrade Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:05:06 -0500 Lot 18 has spent so much money in advertising, some times easy money is always spent faster as that is what it looked like. There are tons of better looking websites coming every day and I must say with Amazon there in the back seat, everyone must watch out. Liked the name and the concept, but some times, you also need to have wider selection of $8 that is the 'real' consumer that it missed. Not sure what the new CEO can do, one thing they can do is save money in adverts...we deal with tons of wine distributors, wine importers and why should you want your ad to show up if you google 'wine distributors usa' - distributors dont buy wine, they get enough samples. Rather spend that money in sourcing more wines and passing the buck. Also I hate websites that ask to login on their very first page - like groupon. We need to see your website first before we sign up. niless Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:23:03 -0500 Is this the same Jay Sung who drove Adaptive Marketing bankrupt? <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> This company was shady: <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> hammerman Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:20:34 -0500 Groupon + wine = Lot18 Made some decent money when it opend as did groupon...but no one cares about flash sales when you can search amazon or google for the same stuff for less $ and arent limited to what wines you can buy on what days. the wines on lot18 are decent...but they are the off years and overstock of those decent producers...thus why they are cheap....also the retail price is inflated so the pricing is about normal anyway bu the exagerate the discount. I would just stick with or PRP wines Emthaphoros Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:56:21 -0500 Don't know about Lot18, but WTSO has a similar business model in the NJ market, and I've gotten many excellent wines from them. You do have to worry about storage conditions and a few bottles have tasted like they spent too many months in a warm retail store. Cough Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:57:44 -0500 Lot18 burned every real wino that ever bought a bottle. They had no exclusive access, no special deals...just bad wine that couldn't be sold anywhere else. The deals were usually not even great deals. They would claim a huge percentage off but in Add to that the problem with shipping wine in general, the overall reluctance of self respecting winery owners to participate PLUS Amazon entering the field and you get Lot18. It's for suckers at every level, from the investors to the consumers.