A broker's week, with one live list behind it.
Five ordinary days, the usual way and on CaskLayer. Drawn from real deals, with the names left out.
A client wants sherry casks, and has £10,000 to spend.
You ring two suppliers for their lists. One is a month old, the other is already marked up, and half of it has sold by the time you call back.
Ask Cooper for a basket you can sell for £10,000 at your markup. He builds it from live stock and flags anything unknown. You hold it and send a proposal in your own branding the same morning.
Another broker sends you their list. Are the prices any good?
You compare it by eye. One row is in OLA, the next in RLA, and half the casks are under a trade name, so you can't tell if two rows are the same cask.
Drop it into Compare. It's matched against all our stock on the same unit, showing overlaps, cheaper like-for-like casks and gaps. It's encrypted in your browser, so we can't read it.
Your client says yes to the cask you quoted yesterday.
You ring to confirm and it's gone. The hold was agreed on a call, nobody wrote it down, and the cask went to whoever paid first.
You held it for 48 hours yesterday. The team confirmed it, every broker could see it was taken, and reminders came before it ran out. If someone else holds a cask you want, ask to be next in line.
Your client asks whether the cask is in their name yet.
You email the seller, who emails the warehouse, and you wait. Then your client asks why the paperwork came to you.
Your purchase shows every stage, its date and whose turn it is. Today the DO is waiting for your signature, so you sign it and tell your client exactly where things stand.
- Purchase confirmed
- Funds received
- Seller's title confirmed
- Your warehouse account ready
- DO ready for your signature
- With the warehouse
- Registered owner
The cask you've been after for a month comes up.
You hear about it from another broker on Monday, after it's sold.
You set an alert in plain English weeks ago. The match lands, you're told in the app and by email, and you hold it from your phone before the weekend.
New brokers buy from the same list.
Most brokers start out selling from someone else's list, two or three margins down the chain. On CaskLayer you buy from the same live list as every other broker, at one clear trade price.
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