Buying or Selling Port

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Should we have a separate area of the forum for buying and selling Port?

Yes
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70%
No
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Don't care
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10%
 
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Re: Buying or Selling Port

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I edited as you posted. Please comment on above draft.
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jdaw1 wrote:I edited as you posted. Please comment on above draft.
Big Yellow is very expensive for odd bottles over a longer period in comparison to (eg) FRW.
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Improved:

Should the standard advice include something on storage? Perhaps
If you are selling to free space, do consider professional storage. Several regulars on ThePortForum.com store Port at Seckford Wines; others use Fine+Rare; others, needing greater accessibility, use Big Yellow in Fulham; some use or have used Octavian Vaults. If the quantity is small, the cost will be modest.
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(To go after the ¶ “So our usual advice is not to sell.”)
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Yes, I think that's good.
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Done. If people are unhappy it can be undone or redone.

And I have also closed the poll at the start of this thread.
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This has been a splendid idea of DRT’s. Six threads have been started in the first seventeen days of June — clearly the search engines like it.
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jdaw1 wrote:This has been a splendid idea of DRT’s.
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Could the "grubby old bottles" sticky be somehow moved to below the "Selling port, excellent, start here" sticky in the Selling Port sub-forum? Such an arrangement would seem more intuitive for new visitors.
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I'll bump the locked thread when back at a proper computer.
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I have changed the status of Tom's thread to "Stickie" so that it stays at the top of the forum posts but no longer appears in the header section.
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