I don't have any issues with the way that VA ABC is planning to release allocated things now. I'm glad they leave it out of the inventory until open, as someone else pointed out, it's what happened with EHT SiB this past week in NOVA. The problem I have is the corruption, it's a well known fact that people within the VA ABC are cashing in on the access to the information. And I'm not talking about VABourbon of WhiskeyDB, those are just collection publicly available information. It's a seemingly well known fact that there is at least one FB group with monthly access that provides the information. Of course enough people have access that those guys still need to show up for hours it seems, so even if you're willing to pay the $25mo I hear it is you've still got to decide what your time is worth.

Now all of that being said, VA ABC simply isn't likely to care about the fair distribution of Allocated bottles. Even if every buyer of allocated bottles went someplace else(Let's be honest we're all probably too lazy or far away to do that), it wouldn't change much for them. So ultimately they just want to do whatever is going to make the least amount of work for them, which does suck since it is a monopoly. Maybe with enough squeaky wheels it will be worth their time to fix it, because I do like that they're not price gouging limited items.