iDealwine has been selling wine for over 25 years now and alongside its weekly auctions and fixed-priced sales, it offers additional services such as building a tailor-made wine collection and wine storage. Let’s take a look at how payment works on our website and how you can store your wine with us.
It will not have escaped your attention that we never stop here at at iDealwine. There’s new collections coming up for auction and themed fixed-price sales (wines of the world, regions, and mature vintages) alongside website stables of organic, biodynamic and natural wine.
Buyers from over 60 countries are logging on and bidding against each other daily on the site. Sales have increased by 82% over the past 5 years and to continue providing you with the most efficient service possible, iDealwine is constantly reviewing its logistics and storage arrangements. So to make sure you have as much information as possible, we’re taking a deep dive into our processes for you.
Paying for your orders
A new auction starts and one ends every week. If you’re the lucky winner of a lot, you’ll receive an email notifying you of your winning bid and a few hours later, the lot will appear in your account ready for payment. When making a fixed-price order (non-auction bottles), you have to pay for your order when confirming your basket as you would do so on any other online website. Once you’ve confirmed your order, you have a choice of delivery options from express delivery to combining orders and long-term storage.
Payment options
At iDealwine, we know that different countries and individuals have different preferences when it comes to paying for orders, which is why we offer as many payment options as possible on our website. You can choose to pay with a Visa, Mastercard or CB card along with Google Pay and Apple Pay for those moments when your cards are in another room but your phone is nearby. Bank transfers have been a longstanding payment option on our website and our banking information for our French and Hong Kong bank accounts can be found in our General Terms and Conditions under VII – Price and Payment. And our most recent addition is – drum roll please – American Express for EUR, USD and GBP currencies. There will be a small fee for using this payment method, which will be displayed on the final payment page when placing an order.
Storage options
Free order grouping
iDealwine offers 30 days free storage for wine bought at any type of sale to enable you to group your orders together and get the best deal on shipping. After buying wines at fixed-price or the end of one auction, you can wait for the result of forthcoming auctions to group all your wines into a single delivery. Simply choose the option ‘Postpone shipment / Combine’ on the delivery option page when confirming your order. However you must obviously comply with the 30-day time limit to receive free storage. Once you’ve surpassed the 30 days, storage fees are €0.09 per day and per bottle (as of 2025).
iDealwine long-term storage
iDealwine knows that storing wine isn’t easy. Whether your cellar is overflowing or there just isn’t simply enough space to store wine at home, our cellars in Champagne could very well be the solution you’re looking for! With the perfect conditions for ageing wine, you can choose to place your bottles in iDealwine’s storage cellar as you confirm your order, so the bottles won’t move around too much. On the delivery options page when placing your order, there is a box for storage, meaning you can let your wines rest in France until you decided to uncork them. What’s more, you can also place wines bought from places other than iDealwine in our storage cellar so your bottles never have to be split up.
Read further on iDealwine Le Blog:
- Fixed Price: How does this side of iDealwine’s website work?
- How do auctions work? | A beginner’s guide to online auctions
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