Any chance of buying the new tins seperately?

[RedBus]

Any chance of buying the new tins seperately?

by RedBus » Mar 23rd, '06, 03:03

I really find the new tins to be very useful in cleaning up my tea space, just wondering if we might be able to buy them seperately? I have quite a few older tins I would like to convert over to save some counter space.

[PeteVu]

by PeteVu » Mar 23rd, '06, 10:26

in the past the -short- answer has consistanty been "no." I suspect that with a sampler being $2, most of the cost is the tin anyways.

[ilya]

tins answer

by ilya » Mar 24th, '06, 00:35

Actually, the reason we do not sell tins separately is because empty tins tend to get damaged in transit. Given the absurb volume of tins that we purchase, we get a very good price of them, and thus the cost of the tins accounts for only a small fraction of the total cost of any order.

-Ilya

[RedBus]

by RedBus » Mar 24th, '06, 01:19

Oh well, worth a try I suppose. I'll just have to order more tea


It's funny you say that about the tins getting dented, out of my 15 or so orders this latest one I got the large Earl Grey was extremely dented which was another reason for my inquiry. I haven't had any problems thus far but it looked like a freight train ran into my box, cardboard and air pillows were puntcured but the can just got dented up pretty bad