Pu-erh counterfeiting caught on vid
Check this video out: https://instagram.com/p/1LQgpuHjLd/
Description: Caught this guy rubbing a puer brick on the street in the Kunming market to make the wrapper look "old." Not my own video, found it on Reddit. -- Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at: gopher://retro-net.org/1/dnied/ , http://devio.us/~ndr/ |
Pu-erh counterfeiting caught on vid
On 2015-04-08 08:58:21 +0000, Dario Niedermann said:
> Check this video out: https://instagram.com/p/1LQgpuHjLd/ > > Description: Caught this guy rubbing a puer brick on the street in the > Kunming market to make the wrapper look "old." > > Not my own video, found it on Reddit. It seems like this is likely to be pretty pervasive. I also suspect that puerh teas are upgraded by the substitution of a new wrapper as well. Popular puerh manufacturers have been taking steps against this such as placing the tea in a sealed plastic bag with tiny air holes, and also boxing the teas and affixing holographic sticker seals. These may be effective to some degree but as time goes on, I think it's probable that the situation will get much worse. Stock up now - pherh improves with age, will never get any cheaper, and is likely to be a better long-term investment than stocks and bonds. |
Pu-erh counterfeiting caught on vid
Oregonian Haruspex > writes:
>On 2015-04-08 08:58:21 +0000, Dario Niedermann said: > >> Check this video out: https://instagram.com/p/1LQgpuHjLd/ >> >> Description: Caught this guy rubbing a puer brick on the street in the >> Kunming market to make the wrapper look "old." >> >> Not my own video, found it on Reddit. > >It seems like this is likely to be pretty pervasive. I also suspect >that puerh teas are upgraded by the substitution of a new wrapper as >well. > >Popular puerh manufacturers have been taking steps against this such >as placing the tea in a sealed plastic bag with tiny air holes, and >also boxing the teas and affixing holographic sticker seals. These >may be effective to some degree but as time goes on, I think it's >probable that the situation will get much worse. > >Stock up now - pherh improves with age, will never get any cheaper, >and is likely to be a better long-term investment than stocks and >bonds. But it isnt that simple. A lot of people in China acted on that theory in the early 2000s. There was a speculative frenzy now known as the Puer Bubble. It ended just about 8 years ago, wiping out a large number of people. A good place to read about this is €śPuer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic€ť by Jinghong Zhang. /Lew --- Lew Perin / http://babelcarp.org |
Pu-erh counterfeiting caught on vid
On 2015-04-10 13:43:59 +0000, Lewis Perin said:
> But it isnt that simple. A lot of people in China acted on that theory > in the early 2000s. There was a speculative frenzy now known as the > Puer Bubble. It ended just about 8 years ago, wiping out a large > number of people. A good place to read about this is €śPuer Tea: > Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic€ť by Jinghong Zhang. Thanks for the book recommendation - puerh literature is very difficult to get in English. I was aware of the puerh bubble but I didn't know that people were wiped out financially. It would be interesting to see how and why, especially seeing the kinds of prices that good 10+ year old puerh can fetch these days. |
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