Sell with us at 0%
We take no commission on what your bottle sells for. Not a sliding scale, not a reduced rate for larger consignments — nothing. Our margin sits in the premium the buyer pays on top of their bid, which is where it belongs.
Fill in the seller form below and one of our specialists takes it from there: a valuation, a way to get the bottles to Groningen, and a place in the next auction. First time selling at auction? Then you are in exactly the right place — we walk you through all of it.
0% seller commission
The hammer price is yours
Collected at your door
Free, on our European routes
Catalogued and photographed
By us, at no extra cost
Paid after the auction
Normally within ten working days
The seller form
It takes a couple of minutes and nothing about it is binding. Give us your contact details, roughly what you are selling and where the bottles are, and one of our specialists comes back to you — usually within a working day or two — to agree the details.
You do not need an account to send it. If you do not have one yet, we set it up with you afterwards.
Every month our own van drives a planned route through the Benelux, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and northern France. Pick the one that passes closest to you and we collect the bottles at your door — free of charge, insured from the moment they leave your table.
07-08 September
09-10 September
05-06 October
07-08 October
For a larger collection, an estate or anything that will not wait for the next route, we come to you separately. Give us a call or drop us a line and we will find a date.
The claim, and the arithmetic behind it
Nought percent of the hammer price. If your bottle makes € 400, four hundred euros goes onto your settlement and nothing is deducted from it as a share of the sale.
What it does not mean is that selling is free of every charge. There is a listing fee per bottle, and a reserve price fee if you want a floor under the bidding. Both are flat amounts you can work out before you register a single bottle — which is the whole reason they are printed here.
Everything else is included: the inspection, the photography, the catalogue text, the storage until the auction, and the packing and shipping to whoever wins it.
And when does the money arrive?
Buyers are invoiced the moment the auction closes and have three days to settle. Once their payment is in, we normally pay you out within ten working days — you do not have to chase anybody and you do not have to wait for the parcel to be delivered.
From this form to your payout
Four steps. Only the first two ask anything of you, and neither of them asks much.
Roughly what you have, how many bottles, and where they are. A specialist reads it, comes back to you within a working day or two and agrees the details — including a realistic idea of what the bottles should make.
If you would rather know that figure before committing to anything, ask for a valuation first. It costs nothing either way.
We collect them at your door on one of our monthly routes, you drop them at a depot for a discount on the listing fee, or you send them yourself. All three end at the same table in Groningen.
On a collection we bring the packaging and leave you a receipt listing everything we have taken. From that moment the bottles are insured with us.
Every bottle is inspected, weighed where it needs to be, photographed and written up. Your lots appear in your seller dashboard, where you can follow the bidding live as it happens.
A lot that does not sell rolls into the next auction at no extra cost — the listing fee already covers one free relisting.
After the auction closes you receive a statement setting out every hammer price and every deduction, line by line. The hammer price itself arrives whole: we take no commission on it.
Once the buyer has settled — they have three days — the payout normally reaches your account within ten working days.
The question halfway down the form
Every bottle is inspected here before it goes into a catalogue, so at some point it has to make the journey. The form asks which of these three you would like — and none of them is a decision you are stuck with. Tell us what suits you and we will sort out the rest by e-mail.
Book a slot on the monthly route that passes closest to you and our own people come to you — never a parcel courier. It costs nothing, there is no minimum, and we bring the packaging with us.
Pick a route in the sidebar above and the form fills that part in for you.
Three depots — in Belgium, Germany and Denmark — where you hand the bottles over on a day that suits you rather than waiting for the van. By appointment only.
It saves us the detour, so it saves you 25% of the listing fee, or 50% if the Whiskybase IDs come with them.
Your own carrier is fine, and plenty of sellers use one. Choose a service with track and trace, and insure the parcel for what the whisky is worth rather than what the box weighs.
Until the bottles are in our hands they are still your responsibility, so pack them as though the parcel will be dropped. Sooner or later, one of them is.
Whichever you pick, we confirm every bottle once it has been inspected — so you always know it arrived and that it passed.
Before you fill it in
Yes. We take no share of the hammer price, whatever the bottle makes and however many you sell. What you do pay is a flat listing fee per bottle, and a reserve price fee per lot if you want a floor under the bidding — both printed on this page and on the pricing page.
Our margin comes from the premium the buyer pays on top of their bid. That way the person deciding what a bottle is worth is the one paying our fee, not the person who owned it.
No. It starts a conversation, nothing more. Nothing is listed, no fee is charged and no bottle changes hands until you have agreed the details with the specialist who gets in touch.
If you change your mind before the bottles come to us, simply say so and that is the end of it.
No. Send the form as a guest and we will set the account up together afterwards — it has to exist eventually, because that is where your lots, your bidding and your settlement live.
If you are already logged in, your details and your address are filled in for you and the form is a good deal shorter.
One. There is no minimum, no bundle to make up and no different treatment for a small consignment — a single bottle goes through exactly the same inspection, photography and catalogue as a cellar does.
What is worth checking is whether the bottle will clear its listing fee. If you are not sure, ask us for a free valuation before you commit to anything.
Please do. A rough count and a couple of photographs of the shelves are enough to get started — you are not filling in a catalogue entry, you are telling us there is something worth looking at.
If it is an inherited collection or an estate, say so in the description. Those we handle by phone, because there is usually more to sort out than a form can carry.
It rolls into the next auction at no extra cost. The listing fee already covers one free relisting, and a lot that missed its moment often finds a buyer in the following sale.
If it still does not sell after that, we will talk to you about the reserve, the estimate or simply sending the bottle back.
Often, yes — the published routes are the regular ones, not the limit of where we will go. For a larger collection we will come further, and for a smaller one we will look at a depot or a shipping label instead.
Fill in the form with your address and we will tell you honestly what makes sense from where you are.
Only if you genuinely would not part with the bottle below a certain figure. A reserve costs a fee per lot, and an unrealistic one is the most common reason a good bottle goes unsold.
As a rule of thumb: expect the hammer price to be over € 100 before a reserve is worth setting, and keep the reserve itself at no more than 80% of what comparable bottles have made.
Nearly always, but not automatically. Bottle seals have to be intact, fill levels have to be above the low shoulder, and in unforeseen circumstances we keep the final word on what goes into a catalogue.
The whole standard is written out on our what we auction page, including the cases where we would rather point you somewhere better suited than take the bottle on.
Tell us what you have and where it is. We will come back with a valuation, a date and a way of getting the bottles to Groningen — and the hammer price stays yours.
