If you get to know real tea, it is very likely that you will also be passionate about it I believe.
One of my favorite Oolongs is Mi Lan Xiang Dan Song and I used to buy it from a small tea shop in London which has really high-quality teas.
Here is the webpage of that tea. The price is 75€ for 150gr and once I decided that it is overpriced and I had enough with these prices and that I was smart enough to buy directly from China the same quality in much more affordable prices. So, I found a seller in China who sold Premium Mi Lan Xiang in less than half the price and I ordered 500gr.
After a month the tea arrived and I tasted it. It was the worse Mi Lan Xiang Dan Song of my life. Quite undrinkable. Good for the Chinese seller, he had fooled another tea-ignorant westerner. Four years passed, and I still haven’t finish these 500gr of tea.
On the left you can see the tea I bought from China directly, and on the right the same variety, Mi Lan Xiang bought from my trusted tea shop in London in double the price. Look how many stalks there are in the left one. There is none in the right one. There shouldn’t be any stalks without leaves in that tea. But since it is a low-quality tea and it will be sold at a low price in some ignorant buyer from the west lets put stalks inside to increase weigh, they thought.
The second point that should have warned me is that it was certified to be Organic. If a tea is certified organic tea, then it is guaranteed to be a low-quality tea. High quality tea is never certified to be organic because the farmer knows that he can achieve a high price in the market and he will sell for sure his tea, so there is no need for him to pay thousands of dollars to certify his already organic tea that it is actually organic. Only low altitude, low quality teas that cannot be sold in China due to their inferior quality are certified to be organic in order to sell it to an ignorant and neurotic westerner who thinks everything certified is good an has actual no capability of judging the tea by tasting.