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See my post above, you got it at the currently discounted price which is valid until May 5th. If I were to guess, a similar sale will appear around June 18th... And yes, interesting/positive that they're offerings the teas for a similar (or even slightly cheaper) original price at the international ...

I think you just missed out on the "May 1st" deal. These teas are discounted until May 5th, but Superbuy may not pick that up (I guess they can't guarantee that they can make the order/payment for you before the offer runs out, they're probably on vacation too until Monday). Prices from the TB app a...

No idea, but I've seen other examples like it. E.g. Zhang Hui Chun yanchas cheaper from EoT than their Douyin store. (I've seen examples of the opposite too, but quite a few positive surprises from Western vendors.)

Does anyone have experience using any of these for tea? Or should one dig deeper and find a way to use TB directly (create virtual phone numbers to receive texts, etc.)? This thread might be of interest. I've only used shipforwarder the last few years, and that requires than you can browse and pay ...

First tea of the day was the 2003 "Serious Formula". Second session with a newly acquired cake, been three years (I thought two until I checked, boy has time flown by) since I finished my last. Same old familiar Henry, glad to see the storage isn't off. Brewed it in tin today, perhaps the most surpr...

It's a special time of the year here, the cold weather has set in but significant snowfall has yet to happen. Some of the darkest and driest days of the year, with the alluring smell of ten thousand stoked furnaces as a constant olfactory companion when walking outside. I'm particularly drawn to smo...

Interesting! Is it one of those "单蒸" liubao teas? I have one such tea from Fengtaixiang on its way (material from 2021-23, pressed this year) which, despite it's (lack of) age, I am looking forward to trying.

My guess would be temp swings (especially cooler temps with corresponding RH spikes, which will be very slow to decrease again with Bovedas) as the main culprit here. Bovedas (or similar systems) + mylar still have the best balance of good results with very little effort involved (for the typical we...

2001 Mengku "qiaomu qibing" (daye neifei).

First time brewing this in a newly aquired chaozhou pot. Not a very focused session, but a surprisingly good pot/tea pairing. Thick viscosity, an ever so slightly muting that takes away none of the good stuff.

The only intact logs I have are a couple of "sanshi liangs" that are a kg each. They barely fit in the largest zip lock mylars I have. The rest is all in the form of slices

Yep, Voss from the tap most places here, can't really complain about that.

In the spirit of "posting updated impressions of the same tea", the first session in eight months with the BSX's 2022 "Junzeyuan" QLC today. 20240817_123946.jpg 20240817_123932.jpg 20240817_124919.jpg 20240817_125615.jpg I don't reach for this often for the simple reason that it needs more time. My ...

Lists of good & bad people doing business are somewhat useful, but I prefer members frankly posting about the teas they have bought to let us learn over time instead of relying on lists. I agree with this. What do members really like? Members greatly praise teas that they sample, then never seem to...

Two of my alleged F2 pots have a single-hole filter. Seems like multi-hole or ball filters are more common in the catalogs I've seen too, but I'm pretty sure I've seen multiple single hole examples for F2 (perhaps more so in the earlier pieces) both in catalogs and FB galleries (e.g. one example in ...

We can only speculate, especially since TdJ themselves arent pointing to financial reasons (operating at a loss, etc) for their change. If TdJ is dependent on imported goods/services for their operations, or e.g. have personal costs "back home" in France (or elsewhere) that are accrued in EUR (not u...