Infussion.eu - free samples to celebrate opening

Yappychappy’s comment is relevant to this thread. And he is right. It is difficult to recommend a tea or brand that you have never tried. even if it means you get free samples.

agreed. le sigh.

Sadly enough there tea is Very good and its not a Small amount its the size of what Davids tea would give you Or Adagio, ALL tea companys you dont know what your buying till you have it in your hand and you can wast alot of money on bad tea… IDK what the big deal is You can wright on your fb Post i have not tried this tea but please help me by Liking this post and ill let ya know But sadly you wont get to find out How good there Sencha tea is cues its wonderful

Try out Den’s tea. They have a $3 green tea sampler for novices which comes with sencha, 4 other small samples, and random tea related stuffs. I’m not a big fan of sencha but their Genmaicha is great. http://www.denstea.com/bnew-to-dens-teab-3-green-tea-sampler-for-novices-c-377_386.html

hrm. never had genmaicha. saw the republic of tea’s genmaicha a few weeks ago at world market, thought about buying it and then got distracted by something else. I must look into that three dollar sampler…

I agree about your Facebook comment. Also, the company isn’t necessarily asking you to recommend them, they’re just asking to advertise for them. I think it’s fair since they’re potentially sending you free samples.

Even though I do meet the 6 month mark and qualify, I do think it’s a little too strict and they lose out on potential marketing from highly active Steepster members who haven’t been here that long. To support my point, if you find a thread from a couple years ago, you’ll notice a lot of users that posted are no longer active.

Very true about active members; there is only one thing (I think) I am not alllowed to do because my account is too new and that is editing manufacturer’s description of tea for the tealogs which is meant to prohibit trolls. That’s fair. But I’m not sure why anyone would troll free samples. It’s suspicious; what if they know just how many people are active in the 6+ month group and are trying to avoid giving away too much tea. It’s maybe money smart, but not advertising smart? You gotta spend money to make money. That’s how the world works.

I think they are more concerned about lazy people who will request samples but not review them. They figure if you’ve been around here for so long and have lots of notes, then you’re serious ;)

Can anyone actually tell how long a member has been around for? I can see my join date on my profile, but I can’t see anyone else’s. I guess you could look at their earliest tasting note, but still, that doesn’t prove how long they’ve been around.

But I participated in Tea from Taiwan’s free sample give away. I reviewed the first one i tried as soon as i got it (lol, it took me a while to break open the second sample becuase i was waaaaay too busy drinking the first sample so that review was a bit delayed.)
Why would I request a sample and then not review it? I think i started steepster just before they (TFT) offered the samples. maybe 15 days? and TFT still let me participate.
Lady of spaydes makes a good point, maybe they want to save money by limiting the # of samples going out.

Oh, I know plenty of new members are reliable. :)

I’m sure cost was a factor, too, when deciding to only take members 6 months and older. To be fair, Tea from Taiwan probably had more money to send out samples to more people.

There was another tea company who had people sign up for free samples, but only a few were selected to “qualify”. I’m not sure what the criteria was, but I imagine it was similar (member for a long time, lots of posts). At least Infussion Tea has hard set rules for who qualifies for free samples so there is no “mystery”.

I’m guilty. I have a sample from TFT that I think I got the day that I signed up. I’ve drunk it, I’ve written my note, but I haven’t posted it up yet. I should do that now! I have 3 of those and 5 other teas to review.

Edit: except that I left my notecards at the boyfriends. Curses! Ill put it up tomorrow!

have to say the tea from taiwan sample i reviewed in the same week of receiving the sample. My 3 samples from zen tea on the other hand, one is reviewed. But sinds i like to spend a bit off time writing and testing my samples i only do it in weekends when i have a free evening. So the 2 other samples still need to get opened up for tasting (sorry zen tea but i will post it asap when i have time). The hard rules from infussion are understandable because the afterall hand out free samples, but it would be more reasonable if it would be refused to members that only joined or replyed in topics for free tea. afterall beginning reviewers need to start somewhere afterall, tough they could review tea they bought first :) (damn then i got a huge backlog off tea’s from jingtea that needs reviewing!

It is a very good start to branch out especially if you have to buy online. I had a couple of trader joe teas,, a green and a white, but I had never tried anything else before I did the research to pick my samples.