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Southern Star Vodka is 42.5%, the Espresso and Citron Vert are 22% and
the Lemon Zest is 32%. The Blenheim Bay Gin (on the right) is also from
Prenzel. This is in a shorter square bottle but it is still 50ml and 42.5%.

Erica Mulder found Rocks, an Islay malt
from Bruichladdich. This is an import with
the importer’s label on the back. It is
50ml, 46%. Finally we have a new
Drambuie found by myself. This has an
importer’s label matching the main label.
Unfortunately it is plastic but then, you
can’t have everything. It looks smaller
but is 50ml and 40%.

That’s it for NZ bottles to show you but I
want to thank the contributors to this
issue. David Spaid has provided some
pictures of some great new vodkas. Ron Gabbard has
provided an article on the ‘nice’ looking common bottles
that nobody wants (next time, pictures of empty bottles
he has drunk! – just kidding). He has also contributed the information below. And Peter
Bonkovich has helped with the ‘As Seen on Ebay’ article. My thanks to you all, it makes
putting out this newsletter much easier.

David Smith
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important note re: ebay

Ron Gabbard wrote: Just got a note from Sandy and Butch Jones for something to include in the
MMBC newsletter. Apparently Ebay has taken the next step to prevent foreign buyers from
purchasing mini bottles. For the last year you were not allowed to say you would ship overseas
but now they have added software that makes it so you have to have a U.S. user ID and U.S.
address in order to bid. (this applies to U.S. Ebay only). Anyway I just wanted to extend the offer
to you (and any of the other NZMBC members not in the U.S.) that if they need bidding and/or
shipping help with bottle purchases, I would be more than happy to help.

Editor: It should be possible to set up a US account using a friend’s address but this does
complicate things as you will not know which sellers are willing to post overseas and which not.
You can always ask but some sellers will certainly be wary of answering as it could be someone
from Ebay checking that they are sticking to the rules.

Under this system US sellers will be considerably disadvantaged as it has been very noticeable
that those who are prepared to ship overseas do get better, and often considerably better, prices.

Hopefully these new rules will quietly fade away. Strictly speaking you have never been able to
list bottles containing alcohol on US Ebay from overseas. This rule has generally not been
enforced, although they have from time to time. Marj’s son, Rex, had a number of his listing
deleted a year or so ago (whilst selling his late mother’s collection) but many others got through.
Note that there is a New Zealand Ebay and others in Australia, UK etc. that you can probably still
list on without any problems – not that that gets around the problem of not being able to bid on
US auctions.