How high will you go?

[Maitre_Tea]

Related to the other thread discussing the "cheapness" of pu-erh: what is the most you will be willing to pay for a young cake? an adolescent cake? an aged cake? Any other "parameters" for any other kind of factors, i.e. wet-stored, factory productions, "artisanal" productions, etc.

for myself:
*young cake: <$40 USD
*adolescent cake: <$120 USD
*aged cake: can't even answer this question...

[hop_goblin]

Too many factors to consider. What many people do is attempt to correlate age with price. Bad plan. A young beeng can cost as much as a 10 year beeng depending on particular factors.

[AdamMY]

I do not know how far I would go personally, but I have had the opportunity to taste a cake that was around 30 dollars for 100g, That I must say was great, but most the stuff I have bought has been around the <25 for a standard size Bing. So really all I can say is sample then decide what you want to pay.

[shah82]

What really strikes me, as a relatively omnivorous tea drinker, is just what $30 per 100g can get you in other classes of tea. Source it from Darjeeling, and you can get darjs that spank your tongue. Source it from Taiwan, and you can get gaoshans that freeze you into place. Heck, there are even white teas at that price that would give you a show. I've had some samples from Hou De from beengs that are in that range, and I enjoyed both of them very much, but it's a real struggle as to whether I'd get the beengs, you know? I want to, but *major* opportunity cost issues, and it's not really as if the price for those teas was really outrageous for a puerh. I also sampled the Peacock series, and that's cheaper, but it's really cheap green tea with a kick-ass aftertaste that's still kind of overpriced.

I think I will eventually get a beeng or two of the really good stuff and simply store that in the eventuality that I become truly poor or something. It should be an okay means of storeing cash, even though it'd probably deflate some as well.

[shogun89]

Right now, I am into mass collecting. Mostly Dayi bengs. I want to stock up on alot of them. So I am mostly spending about $10 or less per beng. Once I have alot of them stocked, I will get into the more pricey bengs being about $40+, to get that slightly better quality. The point for me now is, if a $10 cake makes me happy, why spend $40? After all in the end all tea is for is to make one happy.

[gingkoseto]

The point for me now is, if a $10 cake makes me happy, why spend $40? After all in the end all tea is for is to make one happy.

I often feel the same. Also remember, your $10 cake may worth $40 several years later

[TIM]

A young raw for $2000 with a 15-20% increase per yr. is not a bad investment:

http://themandarinstea.blogspot.com/200 ... -pots.html

[banzhang]

I'm willing to pay $400/cake for 99 Yichanghao with properly stored (wet or dry)

[tony shlongini]

I also sampled the Peacock series, and that's cheaper, but it's really cheap green tea with a kick-ass aftertaste that's still kind of overpriced.

The peacock series run about $20 per pound. That doesn't buy much at all outside of pu'er. Most $20/lb greens and oolongs are ghastly.

[sp1key]

I'm willing to pay $400/cake for 99 Yichanghao with properly stored (wet or dry)

300 is enough to get you there or maybe less