Puerh Tea Scam Site
If anyone follows Yunnan Sourcing’s Facebook Page you will have noticed that they reported a scam site claiming to sell primarily Yunnan Sourcing products. However, Scott at Yunnan Sourcing has said that most of these products are exclusive to Yunnan Sourcing and it is not possible that this site has the products. They are just out to steal money according to the post from Yunnan Sourcing. The site is www.teapeak.net. Looking over the site they have a lot of Yunnan Sourcing products listed for sale but if Yunnan Sourcing says they can’t possibly have the product I tend to believe him.
@AllanK – Thanks for bring awareness to this scam site.
My FB post here:
https://www.facebook.com/Yunnansourcing/posts/1069435326428433
Scott, thanks for posting it. A lot of those products I recognize from Yunnan Sourcing China Site but would not have known how many are Yunnan Sourcing Exclusives. At first glance I only saw a couple of Yunnan Sourcing productions on this site.
Yes… they just ripped all the data from my site and put on that site. In fact 100% of the products listed on their site were taken from my descriptions and pictures. The payment portal they use is China based and likely would not deal with chargebacks or other claims made by cardholders. The registrant has thousands of domains and has been implicated in many other scam sites.
@AllanK
Yeah… like this one. Which they claim to have 999 cakes of. I only ever got 336 cakes (4 cases of 12 tongs) in total from my friend, who never sold them to anyone else. But these %%#$holes claim to have them…
http://teapeak.net/2000-cnnp-lincang-ripe-cake-puerh-tea-cake-357g-p-1405.html
And this they claim to also have 999 cakes… although only 20 kg were produced. They did remove that part of the description:
http://teapeak.net/2015-yunnan-sourcing-mang-zhi-ancient-arbor-raw-puerh-tea-cake-p-1471.html
Sites like this are why I almost always only pay with PayPal. With PayPal if the seller does not actually ship the product to you and you don’t receive it you get your money back. I know that from a couple of EBay auctions I won where the seller did not ship the product and claimed to have shipped without tracking. I got my money back each time. The tea they claim was simply lost and they had really shipped it. But I know from experience that the odds of China Post or the USPS losing a package are incredibly minute.
Payment only by credit card… no surprise there.
http://imgur.com/CsUEPhr
The payment gateway is in China… gee I wonder if they’d give you your money back?? LOL
http://imgur.com/EIKB9gO
Thanks Scott (and AllanK!). Your calling out of the BS is an invaluable service. I can understand if you are hesitant to say too much, but I for one hope you keep calling people out.
The thanks belong primarily to Scott. I just passed on the word for those who don’t follow the Yunnan Sourcing Facebook page. It is also in Scott’s interest that people don’t get scammed. Every dollar someone spends at a scam site is one they could be spending at Yunnan Sourcing buying the real deal. Scott’s consistent honesty in dealing is one of the factors that keep me buying more from him. When he says the raw puerh is from 2003 you know it is from 2003, not a 2009 cake made to look a little damaged to make it look old.
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