We are pleased to announce the 1 year anniversary of TeaForum.org, an online discussion community devoted to tea knowledge & friendship.
To commemorate, we are hosting a celebration, giveaway, and fundraiser coinciding with the winter holidays.
Our goal is to encourage new membership, give back to the online tea community, and secure site funding through 2022. To that end, many vendors and forum members have generously contributed tea and teaware that will be offered at below retail pricing, raffled, and given away.
Our community operates as a nonprofit not backed by commercial interests and does not serve ads. All proceeds go to server costs and maintenance.
Happy holidays,
TeaForum.org
We would like to express deep gratitude to all of our members. We wouldn't be here without you.
Also a big thank you to everyone who advised us, helped us over the last year, and made early contributions to our anniversary event.
If you would like to make a Direct Donation in any amount, please click here.
To add to the excitement, we are placing items in a variety of sale/giveaway formats:
Fixed-Price Sale
Standard sale format -- note that these items are priced below retail
First come, first served.
Tea:
- ≫Yatra Tea Company: Chai Bundle (100g)
- Yatra Tea Company: Castleton First Flush Darjeeling Oolong & White (25g ea.)
- Tillerman Tea: Lishan Gaoshan (57g)
- Tillerman Tea: Alishan Gaoshan (57g)
- Old Ways Tea: 2018 Oolong Sample Pack
- Old Ways Tea: 2018 Black Sample Pack
- Mountain Stream Teas: Tea Sample Pack
- TeaLife.HK: Premium High Roast Shuixian (50g)
- Thés du Japon: Sencha from Hon.yama, Tamakawa, Yamakai cultivar (50g)
- Thés du Japon: Sencha from Tenryû, Tatsukawa, Inzatsu 131 cultivar (100g)
- ≫Cake Batter Drip Ruyao - Hat Teacups, set of 2 (60mL)
- ≫Vintage Japanese Lacquerware Wood Plates, set of 6
- Hong Seong-il Teapot (90mL)
- ShyRabbit (D. Michael Coffee) Nuka Chawan (390mL)
- YAMANE Seigan Yunomi (290mL)
- Keum Tae-woong Glazed Woodfired Cup (74mL)
- mud and leaves: Handmade Nixing Clay Master Cup with Lotus Engraving
- Leafy Green Tea: Modern Shi Piao Yixing Teapot (140mL)
Fixed-Price Sale by Lottery
Simply reply in the topics below and indicate that you want to be entered for a chance to purchase at the stated price.
Upon conclusion of the lottery, no one is obligated to buy. If the winner declines, the item will be offered to the next person in line.
Tea:
Raffle
Something fun to mix things up. Feeling lucky? Purchase one or more raffle tickets for a chance to get something for a steal!
The drawings will occur on 2019-01-11 11:59PM CST (UTC -6)
Time remaining:
Ticket Pack ($22 USD):
Instead of purchasing raffle tickets individually, you may also click here to buy one ticket for each item listed below (four teas and one yunomi). And please:
- leave "Paying for goods or a service?" deselected (i.e. use "friends and family")
- note "Raffle Ticket Pack" and your TeaForum username in the transaction
- 2007 YQH Huangshan Jincha
- Tillerman Tea: Cuifeng Gaoshan (57g)
- Thés du Japon: Sencha from Kawane, Moto-Fujikawa, Shizu-7132 cultivar (100g)
- Thés du Japon: Sencha from Tenryû, Tatsukawa, Inzatsu 131 cultivar (100g)
Free Giveaway
This is our small way of giving back to the community. For your chance to win FREE tea, just reply to the topics below and indicate that you want to be entered.
Tea:
- 2007 Yibang Cha Ma Si "Mansa Wild"
- Thés du Japon: Sencha from Kawane, Moto-Fujikawa, Shizu-7132 cultivar (100g)
- Thés du Japon: Sencha from Tenryû, Tatsukawa, Inzatsu 131 cultivar (100g)
Note that our raffles, giveaways, and lotteries are provably fair using an algorithm described here: https://github.com/ftc2/fair-raffle
The results can be inspected here.
