2016 Sheng Olympics (group buy)

If I weren’t sipping such a wonderful tea right now (YQH) I’d be frothing at the mouth. I don’t envy you so much hard work, but it also must be wonderful to be in the middle of so much great tea.

Thanks for all your hard work and pictures! Very excited!

Lol I am sipping some raw pu’er and I am not sure if I am drooling because of the tea or the picures of tea cakes you have posted. Thank you once again for all the work you are going through at the moment.

I’m also thinking that the next time you run one of these, you should take a tithe for yourself as a payment for organizing, dividing, etc. Maybe the beeng-holes? It seems like the way it works currently you actually lose money on the deal, which just isn’t right.

Yeah that sounds fair. Like the chefs bit of the animal

My mother used to say “you don’t muzzle the ox that treads the corn.”

@Dr Jim : I decided to think about this today because I understand it from both sides. I think for the next group buy I will go ahead and work in $1 per person which will cover the cost of my participation. Does that sound fair?
Say next time I spend $980 and collect $1000

That would be more than fair. You are providing an invaluable service to our community.

I would agree to that as well Dr Jim. Maybe $2.00 since there are material costs like envelopes and bubble wrap and such.

On my side I am also happy with paying us$2 extra as suggested by mrmopar.

Oh, look at all the tea. I don’t envy you breaking up all those cakes.

I am ok with you adding in the 1 or 2 (whichever you decide) for the next group buy. I will probably be in that one too (unless it’s flavoured).

I’ve become increasingly amused by beeng-holes. I think it was CLT that said that was all they drank after packing samples. I want a wide collection of beeng-holes. Tehehe.

I think $1 per person is plenty. As something I enjoy doing, I’m trying to meet in the middle :)
This won’t go into effect until the next group buy and I will have all the numbers figured out completely. Going over $60’ish this time is well worth the experience because I’m learning a lot so years to come these will go smoother.

Basically, $19/share +$1 = $20
The breakdown is $18 toward tea, $1 toward labels
Then $1 toward myself
The $5 shipping ends up being $3.50’ish for shipping and then the price of the packaging supplies/material.

I’m getting this down pretty well. The only thing that throws me off is when a package cost $12 to mail internationally and I collected $10 for shipping so I’m out $2 + material cost. This isn’t something I can foresee or prevent really… so I make the choice to do as I would want done with me; the person organizing everything covers the cost to provide someone the ability to join in an amazing experience.

I think an extra $1-2 dollars each person is fair.

I can help with the international shipping if you need a bit of boost on that.

or you can get a part time job at UPS. i hear employees get free envelopes and bubble wrap. :-P jk

See if there’s a local company by you that does shipments and PO boxes. A lot of them have frequent shopper cards that let you get a free shipment with every 10

I work for a shop supply distributor and have done some pricing… but I go with more quality printing/shipping supplies (but not the best)
When you think about it… there’s 550’ish labels to print, 32 shipping labels to print, 32 packages to wrap with bubble wrap to ensure safety. Rereading my comment, which I won’t edit so it can be see, that bubble wrap might actually be for 50 packages worth but I won’t know until I wrap everything and find out. Next group buy I will have the numbers down even better.

+1 steepster point for that

Thanks for posting pictures!

Oops! I think that’s me. You already have me marked down as paid and I pm’d you my address, but I can do it again if you can’t find it.

I love the wrapper. Its lovely!

I love Tea Urchin! Some great Sheng

We need shu olympics! Although the exchange rate and shipping make it prohibitive, hah.

Thanks again for all your efforts organizing and making this happen for us!

@Uniquity shu will show up in the next one, but I don’t think I’d do a group buy of only shu.

Wow, everything is coming together really quick. I need to clear a space in my tea cabinet!

@Liquid Proust Whatever you choose for your group buy I am in so long we stay with camellia sinenses of some form or other. You have been a great coordinator and organiser.

Yes!

Wow! That is so pretty!

I started with this one today & was surprised that I quite enjoyed the floral honeyed sweetness. Not sure I would have tried this tea on my own, so I appreciate the generous gift. Now I have a few cakes, etc, heading my way from Whispering Pines.