gtlsteep said

Monthly tea sale experiment (First sale now open, limited quantities left)

I wanted to try some new teas and thought it would be cool if there was a monthly deal on new teas to try. My friends and I put our money together and bought a bunch of this oolong wholesale and are selling it at cost to see if this is a thing other people want too.

We’ve been talking to some other cool vendors (tea people are good people) and we are willing to run it for a few months and see what happens. This is more of an experiment than anything and I’d really like to know what you think of this.

Check out my site here and let me know what you think: http://bit.ly/1H9rOdZ

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Someone is going to ask….
So you bought out Beautiful Taiwan Tea’s sourced tea from their contact and then offered it to individuals as part of a “one tea a month” type of deal?
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1034/5389/products/2_large.png?v=1446138038 to which you have linked for a Steepster score yet that doesn’t provide the information for the tea)

gtlsteep said

That’s fair, but we didn’t buy it out – you can still buy it from their site if you want. We’re just selling it at a discount. We’d like to do this for one tea per month.

I’m not sure I understand your second comment. We do link to the Steepstr, what information were you wanting that is not available?

Thank you for the input!

Kind of important to make sure that is true: http://beautifultaiwantea.com/collections/oolong-teas/products/golden-lily-high-mountain-oolong-tea-taiwan

It sold out awhile ago. I would know as I was one of those who tried to purchase it and found out that it is out of stock.

gtlsteep said

Hah, totally fair. Did not actually realize it was sold out. I can tell you we didn’t buy the stock out though, as far as I’m aware. Just normal wholesale.

And actually, since we are selling it – at least it’s available for purchase somewhere, right? And cheaper!

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My first thought was, who are you?

gtlsteep said

That’s a fair question!

We have no particular tea backgrounds so we didn’t include anything. Just a couple of computer nerds who thought this would be a fun project. Would it be helpful to you to include that on the website?

Yes, that would be helpful. Maybe the site’s just a bit too simple… as far as I can tell it’s just the one product page? Having an ‘about’ page would inspire confidence so as to boost sales.

gtlsteep said

Based on your feedback, we’ve added a link to quick about us page. What do you think? Does that answer some of what you were looking for? http://www.goodtealeaf.com

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Maybe good to include more details of the tea on your page for consideration. Seems there isn’t any information on your website.

BTW, we do have a “Monthly Featured Tea” on our website for the monthly tea promotion www.mysundaytea.com/pages/promotion. I see many others are doing too.

gtlsteep said

Yes, lots of people have a monthly tea promo. We’re not claiming to be unique, just giving people another option and trying to have some fun and participate in the community.

What kind of details are you looking for? Details on us or details on the tea?

I think by including both your company / individual information as well as the tea information, it is more helpful for interested people to consider your products.
Anyway, it is just a suggestion!

gtlsteep said

That’s a good idea, I think we’ll update it with some additional info. Thanks!

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yssah said

following to PM

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