Spelling errors in Description tickets

[HifideliTea]

Hi fellow forum members,

I am a newbie, living in Beijing and spend time in Maliandao Tea street browsing and buying pr-erh teas .
One of the advantages is that I have the opportunity to taste before purchasing the products.

In many of the older pu-erh teas on sale, I have come across many description tickets with English spelling errors. I have seen in Clouds pu-erh web site with a spelling error in one of the description tickets.

At one of the shops, the seller tells me it is a 15 year old China tea bing, the tea is a good drink. Would you hesitate to purchase it when the mistake is so glaring (by-prctucts)?
Best regards.
kc

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[auhckw]

It is quite common that older CNNP has spelling mistakes or special markings. That is one of the ways people identify the Pu.

Whether or not by purpose, or ignorance... i have no idea.

[odarwin]

it would be better if you can also post pictures of the tea cake and inner ticket and also the ticket pressed together with the cake

[MarshalN]

Indeed, look at the tea, not the packaging.

[HifideliTea]

Thanks all for the feedback.

Whilst it is an advantage to taste and see the product before buying , I have to be mindful of the many fakes, thus I try to weed out the shops that charges me an arm or a leg, and other sellers that offer fakes or poor quality teas . I still shop with caution.

Here is the inner ticket. The seller is kind enough to offer me some loose sample from the cake and for me to take this photo, I bought some clean loose pu erh from him 2 weeks ago.

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[Catfur]

I have a number of small-factory, mid 00's beeng that I have opened, and most, if not all, of the nei piao have pretty epic Engrish. The big factory stuff is a bit better, but far from perfect. I'd almost be worried if I unwrapped a cake, and found a ticket that made sense and had good spelling (unless it came from a westerner, like Scott or Nada).

[gingkoseto]