| Yerba Mate' Tea -Organic - 25 - Bag |  | Brand: Guayakí Yerba Mate
Category: Health and Beauty
List Price: $7.85
Buy New: $6.28
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Seller: VitaminLife
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3,735
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 2 x 2 x 3
MPN: 632432962016
UPC: 632432962016
EAN: 0632432962016
ASIN: B00028QDMY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Vitality, Clarity, Well-Being 25 Traditional Yerba Mate Tea Bags Na | | • | How to Prepare Hot Mate: Place tea bag in a cup of hot (not boiling) wat |
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Product Description
Enjoy the smooth full-bodied flavor and distinct aroma of our premium-quality, rainforest-grown yerba mate. Best Seller!! Packed with 196 active compounds, our traditional yerba mate is sure to lift your spirit! 25 individually wrapped mate tea bags
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 Guayaki overprices their product and uses sleazy marketing practices August 8, 2010
A. Garvin
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm really tired of companies putting me on their email marketing list without my permission and then sending me marketing spam that I don't want. Even worse is when a company refuses to take me off their email list no matter how many times I unsubscribe. Guayaki has been doing this to me for years now.
I make a lot of purchases online, and so this happens to me all too often. It really starts to get tiresome when my inbox fills up with "newsletters" that I don't want, never subscribed to, and can't ever get rid of. Just because I bought a product from a company does not give them the right to spam me for the rest of eternity, ya know?
The coolest online companies out there, like Amazon, don't lower themselves to this kind of sleazy marketing. Unfortunately Guayaki is one of the lame companies that does do it.
I bought mate direct from the Guayaki website a few years ago, and that's how it started. They 'seemed' like a great company, with a high level of ethics, but I was wrong. Not long after I bought some mate from Guayaki I found that I had been involuntarily placed on their email marketing list, and I started receiving regular spams that I didn't ask for and didn't want. I was disappointed, but I thought they were only forcing me to waste a couple of minutes going through their "unsubscribe" procedure just once. I was wrong again, and this is where Guayaki revealed themselves to really be a lame company.
Some businesses will put you on their email list without your permission, and then refuse to ever take you off of it. If you unsubscribe from their list, then they won't send you anything for a few months, but then they start sending you marketing spam again. These companies completely disregard their customer's request to be taken off their list and not be spammed by them.
This is exactly what Guayaki has been doing to me for years now! Evidently they feel that I should have to waste my time every few months going through their unsubscribe procedure again, and again, and again, to get them to stop spamming me for a little while. You know what? I've got better things to do with my time.
I've unsubscribed many times from Guayaki, and even wrote an email directly to their customer service department, requesting I be taken off their list. No matter, I keep getting spam from them anyway. They clearly don't care about me as a person, they just care about getting some more money out of my wallet.
For this reason, I have stopped purchasing Guayaki products, and have started using "The Mate Factor" products instead. Amazon sells The Mate Factor, and they are basically the same exact same thing, only MUCH less expensive (not surprisingly, Guayaki is over-priced compared to their competitors).
If you think I'm just trolling and writing reviews for The Mate Factor because they're paying me, I'm not. You can click my profile and see that I write a lot of reviews here on Amazon.
I'm writing this review because I'm tired of being spammed by Guayaki and I'm tired of feeling like there is nothing I can do about it. I want people to know that this company that poses as a hip, ethical, environmental-friendly business, actually engages in unethical and just plain annoying marketing practices. I recommend we send a message to companies that do this, by not buying their products, and by supporting their competitors who do not engage in sleazy marketing practices. In this way we can pressure unethical businesses to start treating us the way they should already be treating us: with respect.
So check out The Mate Factor, right here on Amazon!
cheers
:)
overpriced July 4, 2010
K. paddock (atlanta, ga)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This exact product is available at my discount health food store for half this price, which indicates that this seller may need to "sharpen their pencil". Just a word for the budget-minded.
 you might prefer these to Trader Joe's... October 7, 2009
your buddy Jeff (Los Angeles)
because the ones at TJ's don't have strings. These are individually packaged with strings. TJ's are not separately wrapped and don't have strings. While that saves on packaging, I find that having a string saves me from having to use a plastic spoon to dip and retrieve the tea bag.
woody,but good July 31, 2009
Gail B. Gregg (belleville Mich USA)
an old woody flavor I used to buy in another brand tea....always liked it.not bad in coffee either.
way cool February 16, 2009
J. Self (All over)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This stuff is pretyt nice. I tried to kick coffee with it, but I decided I like coffee too much. The "jolt" is real deal though. I loke this stuff. I toss it in with some Rooibos and go to work and I have a really nice "boost" that is very noticable. Not in a jittery caffinated way either.
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