TeaCuppa - any experience?

I can't say one way or the other. I can say I personally won't use them after their astroturfing and lame attempts here at RFDT. That doesn't mean you shouldn't. Search this group and read the posts, form your own opinion. There are many great places for oolongs, if you list a few vendors you've tried/like/dislike as well as any particular types of oolong, I'm sure people can provide you with a number of options.

HTH,

- Dominic

I haven't tried their pricier offerings, but I have been very happy with most of the yancha I ordered from them. They got some bad press a while back because they had some pretty awful puerh (and supplied it for an online puerh tasting among a dozen or so bloggers), but their yancha is a completely different story. From what I hear, they drink mostly da hong pao and rou gui themselves.

-Brent

I like their oolong offering too..agreed with brent and danica on their wuyi rock oolong.

I kind of feel like an idiot who keeps pressing the same button here.

"Jazzy" works for / owns Teacuppa.

Seconding Dominic, I wouldn't buy anything from anyone who feels the need to be so deceptive about how they advertise. If they are willing to pretend to be a customer and go on newsgroups to lie about the great service and great tea they've gotten from themselves, what is preventing them from lying about other things too? Like, for instance, that their tea is organic?

Or, where the stuff is from? Banzhang maocha is awfully hard to come by - wouldn't you think twice about buying some from someone who has repeatedly demonstrated how unscrupulous they are? If this person is willing to pretend to be "Jazzy" and pipe up anytime someone mentiones Teacuppa to talk about how great it is, what is to stop him or her from buying some low grade leaf and selling it as Banzhang or baijiguan or da hong pao?

If you read this newsgroup and buy from Teacuppa, you are letting this moron exploit your ignorance, even if you do get decent tea (which would surprise me greatly). There are a lot of internet tea vendors, both inside and out of China, that do not see the need to lie in order to sell you tea. You should give them your business.