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| - If you are looking for good quality teas without any flavor or with one flavor only (i.e. ear grey or rooibos peach or green tea mango etc.) - this is not the right place. It's way too overpriced, does not carry many good teas, and too sales oriented (they will try to make you buy a tin with your tea purchase). You'd be much better buying the teas from adagio.com (the teas are sent to you in tins, they cost at most 50% of teavana's prices, and are of much better quality).
However, if you like to try blends of many flavors (i.e. samurai chai mate or apricot caramel torte or azteca fire), Teavana may be a good place for you. All these blends use inferior quality tea, but they are so overpowered by other flavors that it does not really show. They are still very pricey. Some of very similar blends may be found on specialteas.com, also at 50-80% of what teavana sells them at. The after dark melange tea from that website is one of my all time favorites.
All in all, I would recommend trying Teavana for unusual blends, but not for high quality basic teas. I think that have to make up for their expensive locations by charging much higher mark ups than their competitors. If you don't want to waste money, don't buy on the spur of the moment. Do your homework by checking adagio.com and specialteas.com before you make a purchase.
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