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Special Tea Offers for March 2010

Richard — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:23:21 +0000

We’ve found the following special offers and coupon codes to save you money on your tea purchases in March 2010.

Enjoy!

Teas Etc is running a Celebrate Spring Sale with 20% off all tea and tea ware products and Free Shipping on orders of $60 or more (after discounts have been applied). In addition, for every order received, Teas Etc will plant a tree as part of CarbonFund.org’s Million Tree Challenge. This special offer runs from today, Friday, March 19, 2010 through Monday, March 22, 2010, so get in quick! The promo code is SPRING. Click here for full details of the sale

Art of Tea has a couple of great deals this month. Their Springfling Deal – $5 off any product (excluding Tea of the Month or Gift Certs) starts on March 17 and runs through April 15 2010. The Customer Code is: SPRINGFLING. They are also offering free shipping on orders of $75 or more (continental USA only), Customer Code: ILUVT.

Staying with Art of Tea, their excellent Pyramid Teabag Gift Box Set are still on sale with a saving of $10. It’s one of the nicest gift boxes we’ve seen, and the presentation is perfect for B&Bs or restaurants, or to add a touch of class at home. The superior pyramid teabags are a bonus!

Golden Moon Tea has one of the bargains of the century! Their outstanding Iced Tea Starter Set includes a Bodum Ceylon Iced Tea pitcher, a tin of their award-winning Coconut Pouchong loose leaf tea, a tin of refreshing Vanilla Mint loose leaf tea, and 100 T-sacs. Save 25% and get this great package for just $29.99.

Generation Tea is offering a real opportunity to make an investment in tea and profit in the future. You can buy a stack of seven 2005 Green Beeng Cha Pu-erh Tea Cakes for just $175, a saving of $55. This works out at just $25 per cake! These classic cakes, in the original bamboo leaf wrappers, are already aged five years, and the dated neifei inner paper seal and Awazon company name will make this edition desirable in the future. Store the entire 2.5kg package in a well ventilated place, preferably within the 60-85% humidity range, and be sur to avoid extreme temperatures and strong odors. Aged ten years these cakes can fetch $80 each; leave them for another decade or two and they will be worth hundreds of dollars per cake. I couldn’t resist getting a stack myself…

And my last special offer this month is also from Generation Tea. They are offering their Organic Loose Leaf Baimudan White Teabags, a bargain at $5 for a pack of 18, saving you over 37%. Top quality loose leaf white tea in the convenience of a tea bag… for $5? I’m in!

Look out for more special offers and discounts on tea and tea wares in our special tea offers section.

Celebrate Hot Tea Month with 25% off at Teas, Etc!

Richard — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:54:00 +0000

One of the companies right at the top of the Buy Tea Online “must add, will do soon” list is Teas etc. Well, we before we’ve had time to add their products to the catalog, I just couldn’t wait to tell you about their sale, on now but for the next few days only!

Teas Etc, established in 1998, by Beth Johnston, is amongst the very best online tea stores in the US, so this is a great opportunity for those who appreciate quality tea. Teas Etc are running a National Hot Tea Month Sale, 25% off everything, with free shipping on orders of $60 or more (after the 25% discount has been applied, continental USA only).

But don’t hesitate – this special runs only until Monday, January 25, 2010… so get in right now!

Teas Etc: After a great cup of premium loose leaf tea on her honeymoon, Beth Johnston quit her job to form Teas Etc, which has grown to become an important company in the tea business. Quality Certification Service (QCS) certified USDA organic, their teas are of the highest quality. Based in West Palm Beach, FL, they have offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Shanghai, China. Their Shanghai office gives them instant access to the most recent harvests direct from the garden. Direct trade such as this benefits farmers, workers and the community. They look firsthand at the working conditions and environment from which their teas originate to deliver quality products and service with genuinely ethical roots.

New Website for Chai Tea Fans

Richard — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:11:19 +0000

We’ve launched a new website exclusively for chai tea lovers, chaibuyer.com, offering the biggest collection of chai teas on the web. Chai Buyer is aimed directly at those looking to buy chai tea, the delicious traditional spicy Indian tea made with milk. We’ve currently got 100 varieties listed and we plan to increase this substantially to showcase the largest range of chai teas on the internet. Whether it’s loose leaf chai tea or chai teabags, you’ll be sure to find the right chai for you.

Chai Buyer is divided into simple categories to make browsing for chai tea straightforward. The categories are:

There’s also an advanced chai tea search facility which allows you to pinpoint exactly what you want using keywords and category filters.

Chai Buyer plans to become the ultimate chai tea source on the internet, and many more chai teas have been identified for inclusion on the site over the coming weeks. Chai tea fans will be able to browse hundreds of products from the best suppliers around the world. If you love chai and want to buy chai tea, bookmark it now: www.chaibuyer.com.

Manufacturers and retailers of chai tea are sought for possible inclusion on the site. For more information, please go to: www.ChaiBuyer.com

New Tea Brands Coming Soon

Richard — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:22:04 +0000

Coming soon to Buy Tea Online:

We’ll let you know here on The Tea Blog as we add each new supplier. If you’d like to stay informed, just enter your email address in the Subscribe form up there on the right for updates, or click here for a preview.

Our Favorite Tea Store

Richard — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:03:17 +0000

It’s a question we’ve been asked many times, and it’s a question that keeps getting harder to answer. This order is liable to change on an almost daily basis, but right now our top five are:

5. GREEN TREE we’re really impressed with their comprehensive range of teas from around the world at competitive prices.
4. ADAGIO TEAS with their top quality range of loose leaf tea and great teawares, Adagio always have a place in the top five.
3. GOLDEN MOON TEA so close to taking the crown, Golden Moon have some top quality teas and a beautiful website to match.
2. TEAVANA TEA the rising star in tea on the internet as well as the high street, Teavana are adding a touch of class to the tea buying experience.
1. GENERATION TEA still our favorite. Not the flashiest of websites, but the tea is of a genuinely high quality and Michael really knows his stuff. You can always rely on good tea from Generation, which keeps us going back for more.

So Generation are still number one, but for how long? If we remember (you may have to remind us!) we’ll revisit this topic in the future and see how our opinions have changed, if at all.

Green Tree Has Great Tea

Richard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:55:21 +0000

We’ve recently tried a few offerings from Green Tree Coffee & Tea and were pleasantly surprised by the quality of their teas. They’ve got a classic range with fine examples of many of the great tea staples from China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

We’ve added Green Tree’s Tea Selection to Buy Tea Online and can recommend that you take a look. In particular, their Darjeeling FTGFPO1 Black Tea, probably India’s most famous tea, is excellent, as are the Jasmine Pearls, whilst the China Magnolia Oolong Tea is very good value for such a high grade. The whole range is worthy of exploration.

We definitely think Green Tree is worth a look – check them out and tell us what you think.

Improvements Now and In The Future

Richard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:51:36 +0000

You may have noticed that it’s now a little easier to browse the products on Buy Tea Online, but you might not realize why. Well, here’s the answer: we’ve standardized the size and shape of all the thumbnail images across the site, which definitely makes it easier to scan the grid of items in rows or columns.

That’s the first of many improvements we plan to make at Buy Tea Online, as we aim to be the most useful tea comparison website on the Internet. We want to make it easier to browse for products, but also easier to really compare them. Here are a few things we’re planning on improving:

Throughout, we’ll be adding more products from quality online tea retailers.
We’ll be adding existing and new products to multiple categories so that they appear in the right places when browsing by category as well as when searching by keyword. For example, a Rooibos Chai Tea will appear in both the Rooibos and Chai categories.
We’re aiming to give a weight of each loose leaf tea, and a number of teabags for each pack, at the thumbnail stage, making it easier to see what you get for the price.
We eventually want to develop a system that calculates the price per ounce/kg of each loose leaf tea and price per teabag of each pack of teabags for the ultimate side-by-side comparison. Stay tuned for that one, it’ll be massive!

All of these things are perfectly possible but with so many different products, manufacturers, countries, currencies and so on, the task of unifying a single system is a fraught one at times, so please bear with us… we’re working on it…

New Links and Banners

Richard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:45:06 +0000

We love it when people help us spread the good word by linking to Buy Tea Online from their website or blog, and now we’ve made it even easier. For a text link, simply copy the HTML code below and paste it into your website or blog.

Text link with desciption:

Buy Tea Online – Tea Comparison Website
The ultimate tea comparison website. Buy loose leaf tea, teabags and teawares from the best online tea stores. Buy Tea Online offers over 2,000 types of tea and tea products for you to compare and buy.

Buy Tea Online – Tea Comparison Website
The ultimate tea comparison website. Buy loose leaf tea, teabags and teawares from the best online tea stores. Buy Tea Online offers over 2,000 types of tea and tea products for you to compare and buy.

Plain text link:

Buy Tea Online – Tea Comparison Website

Buy Tea Online – Tea Comparison Website

Do you have a food and drink website? If so, we’ll link back to you if you add our link and then send us your details. Full details on the Links page.

You could also use any of our new banners. Some appear below, the full range is on the Links page. Again, just copy and paste the HTML code into your website or blog and you’re done. We really appreciate the links and banners, guys… Thank you!

Micro button: 88 x 31 pixels

Small button: 120 x 60 pixels

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Small box: 125 x 125 pixels

Half banner: 234 x 60 pixels

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Become a Guest Tea Blogger

Richard — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:09:58 +0000

Do you love tea? Do you have something to say about it? If so, we need your help. We want your views, and we want to broadcast them to the world!

The Tea Blog is looking for a guest blogger or three to add a different perspective and some fresh ideas. We’d love to hear from you whether you’re a tea drinker, a tea shop owner, a tea manufacturer or interested in tea in any way.

Do you want to have your say about tea? Contact us and become a guest blogger on The Tea Blog right away!

Golden Moon Tea Arrives

Richard — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:05:37 +0000

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve now added Golden Moon Tea’s full range of top class loose leaf teas, teabags and teawares to the selection at Buy Tea Online.

They’ve got an impressive range of teaware and some fabulous teas – their award-winning Coconut Pouchong Tea is not to be missed! It’s nice to have added a couple more Loose Leaf Black Ceylon Teas as well, a category which we’d like to increase.

Anyway, check out Golden Moon Tea, you won’t be disappointed.