"HobbesOxon" > writes:

> Just as Marshal said, buying yixing over the Internet is like gambling:
> you should only pay what you can comfortably afford to lose. I would
> advise that you keep your expectations low and be pleasantly surprised
> if the item turns out to be good.
>
> I've ordered from maybe four or five Mainland eBay vendors now, and the
> majority of them provide substandard goods (note, Scott @ Yunnan
> Sourcing is, as most people on here already know, very decent).
>
> About your vendor in particular: I've had a quick look at some of the
> "1900-1960s" pots and I'm not convinced. A forty year old pot is going
> to cost you much more than that, and, well, they just don't look forty
> years old.

Sooner or later, we're going to see an eBay vendor flogging thick,
40-year-old Pu'er bricks, each with a fine contemporaneous Yixing pot
inside it.

/Lew
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