How much did you pay for tea?

Drinking tea is like paying tuition fees.

First deceived, feeling sour and verbally abusing: a industry full of cheats will eventually collapse.

Later on, tuition was received in bulk, and a reliable tea merchant was met, suitable tea was found, and the previous bad experiences were laughed off with a smile.

Drinking tea is like life - a process of constantly making up with yourself.

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What's the reason he lied to me?

In August, a tea enthusiast sent a message saying: I got cheated on buying tea on Douyin.

Old Yang quickly comforted him with a word: Big Brother, first drink a cup of tea to calm down. Drinking and making tea both have to pay tuition fees. I got cheated by the people selling fake old master certificates for years too.

That scoundrel! He wouldn't give me a refund and then directly blacked out on my live broadcast.

Originally, this year's tea friends began to drink Pu'er tea. When buying tea in the live broadcast room, the anchor talked about tea very well, and the ancient tree tea bud head was also very beautiful. After brewing, even the soup color is still clean.

I heard the host say: "This tea is both fragrant and nourishing, quickly moistening the throat, with a pleasant aftertaste, my voice has now returned to normal, it feels really comfortable."

Watching the live streaming host's introduction, tea lovers suddenly decided to buy all sorts of teas for 30,000 yuan.

Five days later, he received his tea and opened a packet with great expectation, but was utterly disappointed.

The tea guest said: 1299 yuan per cake of tea! Only a little bit of fragrance, tasting very bland, after four or five brews there is no flavor at all. It's not like the live streaming says that it has flavor even up to twenty brews. This must be Taiwan oolong tea.

So he asked the host for a refund, but it was completely impossible.

When the anchor was live streaming, a tea fan in the live room asked: "I also bought this one, it's not really ancient tree tea that you're promoting."

Then I got blocked.

A tea enthusiast said: I believed him so much that his tea leaves should be as reliable as he described, but why did he have to cheat me and not give a refund. Now I don't dare believe in all of you who sell tea.

Although it's a bit extreme for tea lovers to say so, thinking back on it, there is indeed some truth in their words.

But just then, the man bought a 30,000 yuan watch and behaved exactly like Old Yang. When he faced another person's misfortune, he said his own misfortune was greater than theirs, hoping that by comparison, the listener would be less enthusiastic.

Then, Old Yang told about the time he was cheated by old Zhang in 2019 when he was 23 years old, especially when he brought back to his cheater old Zhang the fake ID card he bought from him.

And by the way, brother, I can understand your mood. I've been cheated for 6 figures, and I'm still far from becoming Count de la Fère to exact my revenge. There must be many who have been cheated as you were, let's gather them together and stand up against him. One person he dares not ignore; a group of people, he is absolutely afraid of.

Old Yang suddenly remembered the scene where he was cheated on in the past and thought to himself that one should keep calm for a while, but the more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

After hearing the old Yang's story of being cheated, the tea customer looked like he was in a better mood, sighed and said: "Originally, I was very trusting of people.

But just thinking about that guy who got kicked by the donkey, I still believed him, and I even gave him things, he scammed me, those words "people are at their lowest when they have no enemies" were spoken of a tea vendor.

The tea customer finally said in desperation: I've been cheated once and now I will never trust anyone selling Puer tea again.

Once bitten by a snake, you're afraid of rope for ten years. This is completely understandable.

Here's a translation of the text: Let me say something unpleasant, but an old tea vendor should not be sensitive (as long as you sell tea honestly and don't cheat people, you won't be sensitive). The tea industry has many incidents where customers get cheated out of their money or get charged tuition fees every day, whether online or offline.

Don't think that what tea friends said is excessive. If something like this happened to you, you would be very confident in a person, and the next moment they'd rub your trust into the ground. You'd probably smash stones at their livestream.

If we don't experience deception in our own flesh, please don't stand on your high horse and tell the deceived to be magnanimous.

Life is rarely sympathetic to others, some feelings can only be understood after experiencing it yourself.

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Tea Drinking Guide to Avoiding Scams

Drink tea, pay tuition.

But after people reach a certain age, tea is irreplaceable.

The market's environment can't be changed. We can only use the least amount of money to pay the lowest tuition fees and get a tea that suits us.

Price first low then high

Drinking tea is a continuous process of improvement.

Drinking Pu-erh tea is okay if you first start with "name mountain ancient tree" tea; otherwise, you really have to pay a lot of tuition.

Renmen shuo chang xin, jiajia dou shi gu shu cha. Shiji shang zhenshi nan bian, shidai tai luan le.

Initially tea lovers who drank tea suggested to first drink Pu-erh tea from well-known brands, then enter the ancient tree tea market.

The price of buying tea leaves, also starting from the low-cost rice tea, I had a rough idea about the style of rice tea, mid-range tea and high-end tea, then came to try some specialty teas.

To put it bluntly: as long as you're selling tea for 10 yuan per cake, I won't get cheated by you. Once I understand the difference between good and bad tea, I'll buy better quality from you too.

This process, improving one's appreciation and taste ability, training oneself in brewing tea levels, after these are done skillfully, then play at mountain names.

Sampling first then products

Buy tea, regardless of which brand you choose. Don't believe what the tea seller says, make sure to try it yourself.

Watching people in the live broadcast drinking tea, regardless of the price or level of the tea, it's always refreshing and sweet, this tea is really good.

As soon as a guest receives tea leaves, he can't brew the way it should be brewed and the seller will surely say: I have drunk it, the flavor and nourishing properties are good, is it that you didn't know how to brew?

When buying tea, you must first try the sample, only buy what you think is good tea.

When buying tea, you can first buy a piece of tea leaves for the tea shop owner to give you a taste. Or, if there is a sample package, you can first try it with a sample pack and then decide which one to buy.

If there's no service for selling tea then you can just go somewhere else, there are many shops selling it around here.

Multi varieties less stock tea

Playing with tea is a way to enjoy life. Don't make playing with tea into a burden of life.

In other words, buy and drink, don't store tea, and don't believe in the kind of talk that says storing tea will increase its value (although some stored tea may appreciate in value, but that is a trader's gain, not a customer's).

The charm of Pu-erh tea is hidden within a single sheet of leaves, containing different levels and varieties of flavor transformations.

Drink tea doesn't always drink the same kind of tea from a certain place, but rather different teas from various mountains. Even good tea becomes monotonous if consumed daily.

Drink tea and try various brands' teas. Try more to find a favorite one that suits your budget. Store some in advance.

The tea leaves sprout every year and as a tea enthusiast you don't need a lot of stored tea.

In conclusion:

Not long ago, Old Yang saw a tea boss saying:

The pressure was too much so I closed the door. Seeing him like that made me feel incredibly happy.

That's right, it was in 2019, when a few hundred kilograms of tea were sold to Lao Yang at the price of one kilogram being eight thousand yuan by someone who claimed to be an old master.

At that time, 23-year-old Xiao Yang had not been cheated by anyone yet and trusted people very much. He believed what the tea boss said was a good deal, so he bought 15 kilograms of tea leaves.

At that time, I was just graduated, quite poor, with a salary of over 3000, my parents gave me 30 thousand yuan per month to spend freely, and I saved up for half a year before buying the old teacher a drink, also planning on giving some away.

The friends around me think that old tea is trash, and when they brought it back to refund, the tea vendor said: Young man, this is not what I sold you, have you swapped my old tea for your own?

The price was only three hundred to five hundred yuan, equivalent to being cheated out of over 110,000. But the tea vendor actually still had the cheek to pat his chest and say that his "old master" was a pure wild tree, that all his customers were regulars, and finally turned the tables on us.

Well, you can't fool all the people all the time. The past two years, business in tea has been bad and some of those who made a lot about how trustworthy they were, have finally gone belly up. When customers are swindled once, will they come back to you for more? Only if they're stupid.

At the news that he was about to fold, being forced to shut down, I felt just thrilled. Although it's a bit despicable, seeing the scammer finally trip over his own stone and at dinner time opening a bottle of Premier Cru Burgundy to celebrate is fine.

High-grade tea that costs thousands of yuan per bottle has somehow given me a sense of "pacing in the snow". Indeed, when one is in good spirits, both tea and wine taste better.

People originally trust each other, but when you've been hurt too many times, you dare not believe anyone.

Even the phrase in tea circles that "drinking tea is paying tuition fees" has become an undeniable truth. What a bitter irony!

Actually, drinking tea is just as good as selling genuine mountain tea, and both come with a price to pay. Most of the old tea vendors are simply doing business honestly and making an honest profit from selling tea leaves.

But there are some tea vendors who cheat people with the dishes they serve. They sell 300-400 yuan worth of tea for 8,000 yuan and still claim to have integrity. I ask you, what would you feel if your parents, wife and children were cheated like this?

Once you know how it feels to be taken advantage of, why would you want to add more misfortune on someone who trusts you?

Do as you would be done by. What goes around comes around.