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Lewis Perin

writes:

> On Jan 18, 7:34*pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
>
> > > The market may have collapsed, but the hucksterism is still doing
> > > fine, of course: *The best thing about Puer, he said with a
> > > showmans smile, is that the longer you keep it, the more valuable it
> > > gets.
> >
> > That happens to be true, assuming the Pu'er is stored well. *(I am
> > *not* in the tea business, I should say!)
>
> As I'm sure you know, Lew, any pu'er tea may or may not improve over
> time, storage being only one of the determining factors.
> Nevertheless, regardless of a tea's future quality, its future _value_
> (like that of any commodity) very possibly may have plummeted, as the
> article well describes. Hence the "showman's smile" that accompanied
> his claim, I assume....

Right; sorry I misunderstood you.

/Lew
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