We have been buying extra strong PG Tips British tea from Amazon because we think American tea is way too weak. 3 boxes of 80 were about $40 last time I bought them a few months ago. They’re now $80. Thankfully we discovered we can get an order of 6 for $60, but we have to wait until mid-February for the to arrive. Meanwhile, a single box of the same tea, which we’ll have to get in the mean time, is $20. Yes, a single box is less per box than a 3-count box order, but you still save if you buy 6 boxes. How does any of that make sense?
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Just stop buying bagged teas, that was always the real scam anyway. Look into local tea shops / cafes and buy loose leaf teas. They will be fresher, and a lot more flavourful.
Check your local supermarket or Whole Foods. I live on the East coast of US and can get PG tips in my local grocery store.
They usually don’t have the extra strong blend unfortunately.
Not the question you asked, I know, but I have been buying my tea from uptontea.com since before they had a web site and you had to call in from a printed catalog. Loose leaf tea is economical and gives you a wide variety of choices. I’m drinking my go-to Kensington Breakfast Blend right now.
I’m too lay for loose leaf. I also do not care for tea leaves in my mug.
Amazons pricing scheme is a bunch of bait and switch and price gouging tactics.
I really wonder who is still buying things on amazon. I used it mainly to browse and then find the product somewhere else. But now it’s an absolute shitshow. Clothing is probably the worst, everything is cheap fast fashion directly from china and they usually have like a 3 star rating where people are either shills or people who complain that it’s worthless and the pictures look nothing like what it’s sold. Aside from wish level crap, the “normal” items don’t even seem to ve cheaper anymore than what it’s sold in a store.
Car parts. I can have a part in two days, it’s the same part that the parts store carries, but 1/4 the price. Fuck them parts stores.
Rock Auto? Probably have to wait more than 2 days for your order to arrive though.
They’re so insistent on getting people to do their Subscribe & Save stuff, with lots of discounts for making a subscription. And I take the discount and cancel the subscription as soon as it shows up. The entire point seems to be to get people to subscribe at the low price, and then jack the price up, sometimes double, when it starts recurring.
As another US-based mail order tea drinker, you’re likely going to have to stop using Amazon. There are some domestic sources, and some international that ship here. Will it be cheaper? No. And you may have to try a somewhat different brew. But you shouldn’t face these problems and there are some great teas to be had 😋
There are a few tea forums on different instances but they’re pretty dead. One or two have sourcing options, tho! I’ve used stash for a long time, but I drink loose leaf. Not sure about their bagged. I’ve heard Arbor is good, too, but haven’t tried them.
You can use the extension keepa to know if you are getting a real deal.
Amazon doesn’t sell most the items. They just fulfill them. That’s why you get weird pricing. Could me multiple vendors or vendors who think you’ll just buy.
Get camel camel camel. It’s a price tracker browser extension. You can set alerts and stock up on stuff when you need.
I usually do a pot of Twinnings Irish breakfast tea. 3 teabags in the pot gets me 2 lovely cups if tea. But i have limited selection on tea out in rural Ohio. I try not to buy food off of Amazon because god only knows what is actually in there.
I really do not like Twinnings.
It doesn’t, stop buying on amazon. There are 10000 other stores that will ship great tea to you worldwide. There’s plenty of non-american tea in the americas already.
Also, on amazon you need to scroll and shop. Everyone knows the same items are available much cheaper down the list, amazon puts the more expensive one’s at the top because people don’t go passed the first pages, assuming it’s garbage results.
What’s the brand you are looking for?
Sometimes the smaller dealers are a bit more expensive but at least it’s not to make bezos even richer.
Every place I am looking right now is either more expensive or out of stock. And I am also not seeing it further down the list. What you say does make sense when looking for a general item, but it doesn’t work very well when looking for a very specific one. In our case- PG Tips Extra Strong blend 80 count boxes of tea.
PG Tips Extra Strong blend 80 count boxes of tea
Here. $9 for a box of 80, extra strong, and in stock.
Wow! How did you find that? I scrolled and scrolled.
Right beneath the main listing, under “Frequently bought together” it was shown with the $9 price instead of $20. Then, over in the right column, next to the main the listing, underneath the “add to cart button,” “add to lists” button and “X available from other sellers” (at the same price) was something like "one available at $9 from (whoever the seller is). I could have added it to my cart from there, but went and searched their storefront, 'cause I wanted to give you the direct link to the product.
