Tao Tea Leaf - Christmas in July 50% OFF ON ALL LOOSE TEA
Since I am well known for my enabling abilities, I am posting this shamelessly.
(I’d like to mention that this was brought to my attention by my tea moderator Dexter. Her job is to help me stop buying tea. Great job Dex…I just love you my friend)
Their rare oolong selection looks awesome. Note that free shipping does not apply with this sale, I found out when I placed my order. But yo, 50% off on good quality stuff…totally worth it!
Thought I’d share the news…cause I like you guys ;-)
US people, several of us are going in together to save on shipping. See the misc sales thread.
Totally fell for it, but I controlled myself.
Black teas as I have an oolong overdose at my house right now:)
Jin Ping
Ying De (a new tea for them, and usually its supposed to be really chocolatey)
Golden Needle to try.
I was tempted by many things but this kept me in budget.
The shipping to the US strikes me as inordinately high ($14?), but I suppose that if one purchased enough tea on sale it would be worth it…
Ordinarily, though, I would not pay that much for shipping. I get tea shipped free from China, Taiwan, and India. How far is Canada from me, really? (I live in Boston)
Agreed, it is much higher than their competition. I remember (wish I remember which thread) another Canadian tea merchant saying that it was actually cheaper to ship to the US than Canada. Is the shipping express or something like that? That might explain the price.
sherapop, we are pacing combining order with Marzipan. You are welcome to join. The more ppl join the less will be the ship. I think we have 4 or 5 now
To be fair when they are not giving away tea in a 50% off sale their free shipping threshold is $35.00 which is pretty low compared to other companies. I guess it is meant to encourage volume sales.
I’m in canada and I must say that I was happy to pay $10 shipping to get such fine teas at 50%! I guess it all depends on how much you order to make it worth while :-)
I got a quantity of high end oolong I don’t think I would have ever purchased other wise…made me really happy!!
I am coordinating, so far it’s three of us and about $130 before the discount.
TTF it’s my first time so it’s mostly 25g. I believe you cannot really sample with 5g especially you know how much I love gongfu
My first time too so I’m not getting much:
Milk Oolong Tea – Premium – 100g
ZhengHe GongFu Black Tea – Jin Ping Village – 25g
Bai Hao (Oriental Beauty) Oolong Tea – Organic – 25g
Lol, of course 5g is not enough for you, sweet girl :-) i love that they do offer 25g. It’s my first time buying, but I have tried a few samples thanks to dexter and loved them all from what I can remember.
But who is going to do all of the work? That will surely be worth $14 of labor! lol
Four of us so far, anyone else?
There are five of us now, I’m placing all of the orders as one (so the shipping from Canada will be $14/5 at least at this point). Then when the order gets here I’ll ship them out to each person for the actual cost of the shipping, which won’t be much, of course depending on weight. I’ll send the cheapest way. The other four people are sending me Paypal for their parts, once we have a final amount.
I just placed it, I’m sorry :(
Sorry Marzipan, I see that I’m too late, I just got home from work. Did you find the leaf hopper oolong?
http://www.taotealeaf.com/bai-hao-oriental-beauty-oolong-tea-organic/
Hope that you saw it…
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