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Market report emails

Subscribe to wsky1's monthly whisky market digest — top movers, notable hammer prices, and distillery trends compiled from real auction data — plus the welcome email and onboarding series you get after signing up. No account required.

Get the whisky auction market in your inbox. wsky1's monthly market digest summarises what moved — top gainers, biggest drops, and which distilleries dominated lot volume — all compiled from the same live hammer-price data behind the market reports. It's free, needs no account, and you can unsubscribe from any email.

This is different from tracking your own bottles: the digest is a public newsletter about the whole market. To watch what you own, create an account instead.

Subscribe

The monthly whisky market digest signup panel on the wsky1 home page, with an email field and a Get the digest button

There's an email box on three public pages. Enter your address and submit — you're on the list immediately (single opt-in; there's no confirmation link to click).

  • Home page — the "Monthly whisky market digest" panel near the foot of wsky1.com. Button: Get the digest.
  • Market reports — the "Get the next report by email" box on /market and each monthly report at /market/<month>. Button: Join.
  • Distillery pages — the "Monthly digest" box on each distillery page (/distillery/<name>), captioned "Get {Distillery} price moves and market highlights in one monthly email." Button: Join.

On success you'll see a confirmation line (e.g. "You're on the list. Market intel incoming."). If the address is already subscribed, you'll get "You're already on the list — we'll be in touch." rather than a duplicate entry. An invalid address returns "Please enter a valid email address."

Example

POST /api/newsletter
Content-Type: application/json

{ "email": "you@example.com", "source": "home" }

→ 200 { "ok": true }                    // subscribed; welcome email queued
→ 200 { "ok": true, "duplicate": true } // already on the list, no-op
→ 400 { "ok": false, "error": "invalid_email" }

The form on each page sends this request for you and sets source to where you signed up — home, market, or distillery:<name> — so we know which surface brought you in. You never need to call the endpoint directly.

What lands in your inbox

Right after you subscribe, and then on a light onboarding cadence over your first two weeks:

When Email What's in it
Immediately "You're in — wsky1 monthly whisky digest" Welcome note explaining the monthly cadence, with links to this month's market report and the live demo.
~2 days "Your first whisky market report — {Month}" Last month's full market report — top movers and distillery volume — so you see the digest format straight away.
~1 week "A week in the whisky market" A short primer: median hammer price vs. auction records, buyer's premium (24–28% on top of hammer at major houses), and distillery- vs. bottle-level trends.
~2 weeks "The bottle-by-bottle truth…" Why a spreadsheet can't match the exact release, and an invite to track your own bottles free (first 3 forever).
Monthly "Whisky auction market · {Month}" The recurring digest — top gainers, biggest drops, and lot-volume leaders for the month.

Every figure is a hammer price in GBP, excluding buyer's premium, drawn from the auction houses in Where prices come from — Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and the rest.

Notes & limits

  • No account needed. Subscribing only adds your email to the digest list — it doesn't create a wsky1 login. To track a collection, sign up separately.
  • Single opt-in. You're subscribed the moment you submit the form; the welcome email arrives right after. There's no "confirm your email" step.
  • Unsubscribe any time. Every email has an Unsubscribe link in the footer (/unsubscribe?id=<your-id>). Clicking it deletes your address from the list immediately — one click, no login.
  • Cadence. One digest a month, plus the short onboarding series above in your first two weeks. No spam.
  • This isn't per-bottle price alerts. The digest covers the market as a whole. For your own holdings' values and daily-refreshed estimates, see Managing your collection.

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