Fuming Tea Dealers: "You young tea merchants, why won't you buy our inventory?"

Pu-erh tea, what's left out is much less than what's drunk.

When the tea market is saturated with collectibles, the tea market becomes weak and it's hard for tea companies to sell their products.

But even more perplexing to tea aficionados is that young tea merchants, who are selling tea, have run out of it.

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You don't store tea yourself and you dare to sell Pu'er tea.

Last year, I met a tea boss who looked a bit awkward at Old Yang and showed off:

I have 16 tons of pu-erh tea. When the price goes up, I sell it at a loss and make a profit by crushing other teas.

And he didn't forget to ask Old Yang who sells tea: how much do you have in stock?

Old Yang spoke straightforwardly and said: "It won't weigh over 100 kilograms." Normally, he wouldn't stock tea, but if it's high-altitude, old trees, low density plantation, good craftsmanship, such as Lincang tea, he would only store some.

Even without tea, they sell Pu-erh tea.

The tea shop owner puts on an air of you don't know how to invest in tea leaves, and speaks with a sinister tone:

He sold Pu-erh tea and there was no inventory, he even didn't know that selling it can earn cash flow, or it can be appraised. If the tea leaves are going to increase in price, if there's none to sell, he'll be ruined.

Old Yang was a bit perplexed when he heard this: as if the experts said that selling Pu-erh tea could make you rich and worth investing in, people actually treat it like a wise saying and a life principle.

But thinking about it, in front of the elder, still have to respect him three parts, dare not say out loud.

It's your honor to make tea with me.

Then, the tea shop owner had an elevated and inexplicable sense of superiority, saying:

Six years ago, the tea was put in storage and sold over the past two years to earn some money. This year (2021), he rented out two pieces of land in Yongde for four-year contracts and produced 100 kilograms of old tree spring tea, and more than 1 ton of small trees. The quality can compare with Mang Lung and Mei Zi Qiang Tea Garden, the cost is much cheaper than the raw materials of Teashan, and 10 million yuan per year can earn money by following me.

The tea shop owner seemed as though he were telling Old Yang: I have discovered a big business opportunity; to be able to follow me is an honor for you.

However, on one hand, Yang is a bit poor and lacks the money to invest. On the other hand, he thought this business was untrustworthy. He could only make 50% of profit by cultivating tea plantations, or fresh leaves, or materials. Otherwise, you'd be left with a loss.

But Eternal Peace tea does not have such an ability to emerge, of course it can't be done.

Half glory, half desolation

Two days ago, I ran into this tea shop owner again, but he was no longer aggressive.

A man who is full of haughtiness suddenly becomes amiable isn't that a leap in virtue, it's just reality won't let him be so proud.

It's obvious, we made a profit last year by grabbing the tail of tea rising. However, ignoring the law of objective cyclical patterns, this year's market is quite bleak. The boss who just took over the tea farm was like drinking water with his head under the surface.

On the contrary, Old Yang who didn't invest money and worked hard to write articles and sell tea in a honest way got a lot of trust and support from his clients at the end of one year.

Do you co-op or stock up?

Their paths crossed again and the tea shop owner began praising Old Yang with flattery, and then talked about cooperation.

It was said that he thought Old Yang had good character and was willing to exchange 10 pieces of his stored tea, at a discount of 80%, for Old Yang.

However, most of the tea old Yang usually sells is at 50% off from someone else's price, so to cooperate in one deal is almost as good as not doing it at all. He therefore politely refused.

And Mr. Yang also has his own requirements for tea quality: the trees are of a certain age, and the planting density is guaranteed; the processing process is also ensured, that's why he only buys such tea; it's okay to drink some himself, but selling them is impossible.

What's even more puzzling is that Old Yang doesn't store tea, but only stores tea that has been fermented for a long time and can be comparable to top-grade Pu'er tea.

After all, drinking Pu'er tea is like sipping high-end red wine. It's about appreciating the temporal beauty and natural flavor bestowed upon you by time. As for selling tea, it's just a side note; I only sell what I really like.

The negotiations were unsuccessful, the tea shop owner scolded Old Yang with an expression of "iron cannot be made into a tool": If you don't stock up on tea, you won't have market share. Your tea business will not do well. When prices rise, you'll have no tea to sell and wealth will pass you by.

This older brother, why are you still getting angry. It's also interesting, the same as Pu'er tea, everyone stands in their own position, and there is no right or wrong. When people with different views meet, they will generate conflicts of values.

Watching the tea shop owner's reluctant departure, I still didn't understand: selling tea, why stock up on goods.

Not only does Old Yang not understand, so too do young tea sellers of the same kind as Old Yang not understand.

It seems that he's saying: There is no way you can get young people to buy up existing inventories.

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Hoarding tea is a pitfall.

In the past two years, we have seen some tea bosses being stockpiled:

There are mountains of tea in the warehouse, with tens of thousands of kilograms and dozens of tons. Some tea merchants even specifically asked a valuation company to assess their wealth.

Estimated at a market price, worth tens of millions. Ironically, a "wealthy" tea boss who can't even get his hands on ten million cash flow.

Amassing tea and taking advantage of the times

The tea entrepreneurs with inventory are mostly people who have been in the industry for over a decade and enjoyed Pu'er tea dividends.

After 2004, Puer tea rose to fame. As long as it's Puer tea, there will be no worries about sales. Now many tea companies have completed their original accumulation in those years.

In 2009, the price of old tree tea was several tens of yuan per kilogram and it was purchased at a low price. In the following years, tea prices rose rapidly and the demand for old tree tea far exceeded supply, so they didn't have to worry about selling it.

In 2016, under the background of Tea Mountain Village, selling raw materials on the mountain also brought a huge profit at that time. At this time, it was relying on the traffic of well-known mountains, and the production of well-known mountains is limited despite large traffic flow. The market with well-known villages such as Icelandic villages has a huge demand for raw materials.

This is Puer tea market's three times of profit only by luck and chance if a trend comes along.

However, the dividend will pass.

Some people mistake the profit of Puer tea market for their own virtue, thinking they have always been standing at the forefront of the industry.

But what if tea prices do not rise infinitely, and dividends have to come to an end eventually?

When tea production increases, Pu'er enters an era of overproduction. Those who made judgments in the past few years and thought tea prices would rise have become high-end buyers instead.

Tea company, cash flow comes first.

It cannot be denied that tea bosses did indeed make a profit during the Puer tea boom period. However, any tea company is ultimately about cash flow.

When they have a sufficient flow of cash in hand, the tea bosses can confidently claim that Puer Tea will increase in value. They can earn cash by selling it or earn an appreciation in value if it doesn't sell.

However, when you're burning through cash flow, the tea company needs to operate and pay employees, but all you have is tea, with people selling tea everywhere, a huge amount of tea leaves that can't possibly be sold in such a short time.

A few years ago, tea merchants were often forced into stockpiling by inventory. So I decided to make as much tea as the market demanded and never store it.

The End.

Each generation's values are based on what each has experienced in their lives.

Just as people in their sixties and seventies are fond of old tea, they drink it while recalling the carefree days of their youth.

Sipping on the old tea, I thought of how it was born when I myself was young, and memories that had long gone were mixed together in a cup of tea. This flavor, people who never experienced those passionate years, do not understand.

However, the memory of that history in the young generation is all on paper. Drunk high-quality old tea, acknowledged that the quality of old tea is indeed good. But wanting to spend tens of thousands of dollars buying a piece of old tea, it's not as good as buying several kilograms of name mountain ancient trees. This is decided by the growing environment.

As for hoarding tea, young people who have not experienced the benefits of pu-erh tea are more rational about hoarding.

Young people feel: Life is just a process, whether drinking tea or selling tea, being happy is most important.

No savings, no pressure on tea leaves. Want to go anywhere just walk out. As soon as a new phone comes out, change immediately. Want to drink good wine, open anytime. Life is rich and colorful.

Even if it's just selling tea, you don't pour the cash into a heap of loose-leaf tea in springtime. You can go up to the tea plantation and pick out several good tea trees, making some high-quality tea leaves which sell slowly.

As long as I don't stock up on tea, there's no pressure. In the days of slow and steady sales, one can turn the life of a tea vendor into poetry. This is what young vendors think about.

However, if money is pressed onto tea leaves or even borrowed to store tea.

Looking at a mountain of tea leaves and countless storage fees, life that was once rich and colorful has turned into just selling tea - how boring is that?

Besides, the market for tea is difficult to sell, even if you think hard, it's not sure if you can get back the cost of storing tea. Selling tea was originally to make a living, why tie the future years' days of being busy and leaving no traces to a bunch of tea leaves?

The shopkeeper of tea may say: Store up your tea now and then sell it later when prices rise and make a profit.

However, with the younger generation growing up in a better environment, they don't have to be greedy. Selling tea = raw material cost + thin profit margin. So, why does it matter if the price of tea rises or falls for young tea sellers?

Young people are not going to buy expensive teas hyped by old drivers and don't believe in the value of tea appreciation.