Official "What did you buy at the sales" voyeur thread!

Well, I’m giving American Tea Room the long stares, sigh. I want that Brioche.

I don’t mean to hurt your chances of avoiding it, but the Brioche is so friggin’ good. I teared up a little when I drank down the last of my stash.

let me know what you think of the El Dorado and Silver Needle.

Will do! I’ve been looking for a good Silver Needle for a while, so I’m excited to see how this one compares to the others I’ve tried.

Ahhhh, sheesh, maybe I should get a bigger quantity then. My original plan was to order samples of a few of their things, but I couldn’t justify it with the postage.

It is very good – tastes pretty much exactly as advertised, so if you’re a baked goods fiend like myself, I’d definitely buy up. It goes fast in my household.

well that does it, I can already tell I’m going to cave ;)

Sorryyyy.

If you have any more longing stares at August Uncommon let me know I have a 10 dollar off link you can use.

You’re too lovely, TeaTiff, but I think I’ll have to ground myself if I buy even one more gram of tea. Thank you so much for the offer, though!

“Shame on my cow.” made me laugh out loud. :)

you can get 500g of it. there is an option ;)

I just saw that. But I probably should be responsible and try the sample first. I really like the original though…

Oh dear. I just ordered two of the new Jianshui teapots at Crimsonlotus and got me the new Bulang Gushu sample.

which ones did you get? i got bamboo 80ml

I was real bad. I got the 70ml bamboo and 130ml dragon.

Your fish icon makes me happy.

Daughter of Fishes, are you on IG?

boychik No, I’m not but I’ve lurked and am thinking about joining. I see a lot of good tea discussion there. Plus pretty pictures.

(PS, what are the codes for bolding? Can’t seem to get it right.)

Asterisk before and after.

Thanks Marzipan!

And I figured that with my username I really should have a fishy avatar.

So glad you got some of the pu’er sample packs before they sold out! And I love the pot and gaiwan and cups you picked out :)

Thank you so much!!

Thanks Lily! I’m really looking forward to all of it!

How are the cakes associated with the sample packs doing? I hope there are some left after today :)

Please come to IG. It’s fun place too. A lot of interaction with tea sellers . Plus I’ve made bunch of tea fiends from all over the world

boychik Ok, so I signed up on IG, but then discovered that I managed to remove most of my photos from my phone. I’ll re-sync tonight but for now will have no pictures to share. I’ll go drown my sorrows in some pu.

Yay, found ya ;D and following now.

Dang it, I would of gotten the 500g half brick but it wasn’t an option when I ordered, so I got the sample. Alas, yes it is better to sample first, buy kilo of tea later.

YAY!!!! So happy you did it. :))

had to send it via my tea mule for free shipping instead of 42$ shipping (wtf!) but that’s ok.

42.00 is insane…. don’t blame you for using your tea mule. :))

You will be happy with every single bit of both of those orders

Good to hear! The plan is for them to be Special Teas, not daily drinkers. I loved the sample of GABA black I got from Mandala and dubbed it the Ramones tea.

Hey Ho!

yes pot!!!! i got one too last night

This does not surprise me – I got the 70ml dancing dragon. OH – I also got some Joseph Wesley

So it was YOU that got to that pot before me! Grrr! ;-)

If you were looking at that one, yep it was me. I will love it enough for both of us – its like a more wee version of my beloved babyxing

I was! It’s so hard to find those tiny pots at a good price. Enjoy!
Plus dragons are cool.

i wanted dragon too, but it was gone. i got 80ml bamboo. i asked Glen if he was having some up his sleeve. so glad i didnt place the order the first day, i would miss out on a pot. i literally placed an order at midnight lol

It certainly reminded me to place an order at Crimson Lotus Tea. I had meant to, but had forgotten until I saw the thread.

I loved this thread. To keep my mailbox under wraps I unsubscribed from some of the tea mailing lists, but still wanted to find out about sales for BF. This was a very useful thread having everything in one place and not have to go track down all of the web sites. Thank you for putting it together and keeping it up to date.

Most definitely. I placed at least 3 orders I would not have otherwise! Thank you for organizing the sales. :)

I really appreciate you doing it Marzi because for the most part I knew what I was getting – but I had JUST read about Concubine oolong and up popped the Tea From Viet Nam sale and I would not have known about it otherwise.

You did a fantastic job. you are super organized. i cant think of any better way to alert. thank you !!!

Second that fantastic job thing, Marzipan. Well done! So very useful. Don’t change a thing. Very very much appreciated.

Wish we could stop all the side post , but oh well.
This one thread made me happy.

The thread was awesome and super helpful. Now I know that next year I will save the bulk of my tea purchases to November. I had no idea that the sales were like that.

Oh yeah, incredibly helpful! Having them all in a centralized place was great. In particular, I wanted to order from a store that did lots of samples and did lots of flavoured blends, and when I saw the Amoda listing I was so thankful not to have to trawl through a huge barrage of separate posts.

It was really helpful Marzipan! Thanks for doing that. I had a couple I was thinking of at the time but also got the sample package from Beautiful Taiwan Tea Co. There was so much to choose from!

We all enjoyed this Marzi! Many thanks!

The thread was super awesome and very helpful. Well, helpful for everything except my bank balance, lol.

I know one thing on my wishlist, after editing the thread about 100 times. I wish the editing window was bigger. It’s tiny!

Can you drag the bottom right corner of the edit window? Should have some diagonal lines. Mouse over it and drag it out. :)

Yes, it was awesome to have everything in one thread. It made finding companies (and sales) so much easier. I purchased tea from companies that were new to me. Thanks so much for compiling the list. :)