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I am by nature a skeptic. Sometimes I forget that.
I posted up in another thread about how Verdant Tea is sketchy due to a heart-attack inducing markup on otherwise low end product. There, I mentioned I was looking for something else when I made that discovery. Originally, I was investigating Pu’erh Shop.
Pu’erhshop is the largest U.S. (or Western, really) retailer of Pu’erh, and I’ve mentioned them here once or twice in regards to trying out different compressed teas.
Well…
http://teacloset.blogspot.com/2012/06/youngest-sixteen-year-old-ive-ever-met.html
http://teacloset.blogspot.com/2012/06/plot-thickens-with-fake-7542.html
http://teacloset.blogspot.com/2012/06/final-update-to-fake-1998-7542.html
This serves as a reminder that caution and a dose of skepticism can be helpful.
M.
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It seems to me the cake in question seems a lot more younger than 2006. I have not traced the threads to find out how much he paid for it, but it seems to me that there are quite a lot of people get fooled by false claims and funny origin labels. The Internet itself is full of half true information and not only customers, but also merchants fall into trap. I have been in it myself. It is simply not right to push your bad buys to your customers though. I think some of these US Internet tea shops can destroy the credit ability of the tea trade if they continue to sell bad things like that.
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Indeed. Part of it is ignorance – it’s not easy to get educated on a subject as deep as tea in the U.S., even if you only focus on one category (puer, or just shu puer or something more specific than that even).
She paid somewhere in the mid $60 range. She purchased it knowing it was fake, fortunately, as she’d some samples and was getting an entire beeng to split with a few more knowledgeable people to try and determine if it was real or not.M. -
I think some US teashops can get away with selling poor tea and still good business just because they are there in that US market. Like there are restaurants here in Singapore that sell poor food but still have good business. I think Tea Guardian is doing the wise thing to educate the market of what is good and what is bad. This way the consumers would be able to appreciate good tea and not like bad tea. Then the shops selling good value quality will stand out because the consumer know the difference.
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ha! those are lowest quality producers.. only really low respect teashops in some china teashops sell them. i think too funny people paid 60 usd for such bad brand name. however, taobao may not real price sometimes. i think that tea cake price is normally 20 / 30 rmb in shop. a average quality new puer cake retail over 100 rmb in china.
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If you are interested in puer cakes, and know about Taobao, try these brands:
Hai Wan (good value)Da Yi (this one is more expensive, but better known)Their webpages:I think the Da Yi site has English. -
Manila Tran: Such abounds the world ’round, and all throughout history. Otherwise there wouldn’t be any Subway or McDonalds! (…are there Subway franchises in Asia?) Just got a new tea vendor, they sell The Metropolitan Tea Company products. I should contact Leo to see if either of the two local vendors would be interested in stocking TeaHong product…
Chawang: Are you referring to the Verdant Tea $17 puer on Taobao vs $156 at his online shop?
Tea Soul: My recent interactions over at TeaChat (which, in spite of being Adigo Tea’s home forum, is a rather lively and varied site) have pointed me in the direction of Da Yi, th ough I don’t think Hai Wan has come up before. I’ll see what I can find. Unfortunately, I can’t use a non-Chinese debit card to purchase on Taobao.
Now, in general, Puerh shop seems to have a good reputation. They even press their own cakes, which got good reviews – American Hao.
M.
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I do not quite understand why people buy this kind of tea cakes. One of my uncles serves this whenever we go there for dinner. It is so difficult just to get a crumb for making tea with. He always talks about how price goes up with my father and how expensive the tea we drink now, and raw cake and cooked cake and this mountain and that tree etc etc etc. I don’t think I even like the taste. The thing looks so dirty wrapped in the old rice paper and taken out so many times to be grabbed at forcefully and mutilated and put back there sitting in the shelf. 8-X
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