Terms for Sellers | Wine Collector

Key terms worth knowing when selling wine through Wine Collector.

Wine Collector operates a peer-to-peer trading exchange. That means you are entering into a contract directly with your buyer, who is likely to be a private collector or a trade buyer: please be prepared to honour your contract of sale with buyers.

Market level pricing estimates are created as a guide for sellers to determine the best selling price, but low liquidity in many wine markets means that it's always worth checking before offering for sale. We offer guidance or you can cross-check best market prices on Wine-Searcher.

As soon as the trade settles and completes, we will transfer sales proceeds credited to your Wine Collectorclient account to your nominated bank account.

Please don't sell wine without checking that you still own it, and please don’t run the risk of offering wine for sale elsewhere if it’s also offered for sale on Wine Collector. Make sure your offers for sale are valid and check your emails for reminders of offers that are due to be automatically renewed every 3 months. You can remove an offer for sale at any time.

If you sell wine that you no longer own you will be liable to find a replacement case of the same wine, or else Wine Collector will source one for you and will invoice you for any difference in price, however much that may be.

Wine Collector role in the trading process is to receive and make payment, organise inspection reports and coordinate logistics. We also undertake a mediation role in the rare circumstance where something goes wrong. In these cases we will step in to enforce a trade between a buyer and seller or will mediate an alternative resolution.

Immediately following a trade we may ask you to transfer wine to a Wine Collector storage account to speed up the settlement process, whether or not payment has already been received by the buyer. The wine is stored with us until payment is received and we can complete the trade. If your wine fails a pre-settlement inspection report the trade is cancelled and you can either relist the wine for sale, store it in a Wine Collector sub-account in your name, or request it to be returned to another of your storage accounts.

The fine wine exchange is anonymous for private sellers and buyers. The only circumstance your details will be disclosed to your counter party is if mediation cannot resolve an issue, in which case seller and buyer details will be exchanged.

When selling wine valued at £1,000 or more per case we require you to have it inspected. Either you can procure a inspection report from your current storage provider, or we can organise that for you at cost when you transfer your wine to us after a transaction has taken place, in which case we will charge you £10.50 per report. If you choose to transfer your wines that you wish to offer for sale to a Wine Collector’ storage account before a transaction, inspections are undertaken by us free of charge and the first 3 months’ storage will also be free of charge as long as your offer price is competitive with other current best market prices. Call us for further details.

There are separate additional terms and commitments required for selling en primeur wines: please do not list wines for sale that are not physically in one of your storage accounts without speaking to Wine Collector first.

Wine Collector offers competitive storage rates in an account in your own name, within the best fine wine warehouses in the world, which will also facilitate quicker settlement of trades and means less work for you since we organise all post trade activities.

Please do not offer wines for sale that are not within your control, and that cannot be delivered to your buyer through Wine Collector within 5 working days. If you are selling wine on behalf of a client, you will still be expected to honour the contract with your buyer if your client refuses or is unable to supply the wine you have sold for them. If the wine needs to be repurchased by Wine Collector at a higher price to make good a failed trade, you will be liable for the difference in price.

Your selling price on the exchange must be all-inclusive (excluding delivery and before your trading commissions are deducted). If you sell duty paid wine please ensure that your VAT liability is included in the price that you list for: sales tax is assumed to be included in duty paid offers for sale and will not be charged additionally by the platform to the buyer.

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