Pu-erh counterfeiting caught on vid

Check this video out:

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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.

Reply to
Dario Niedermann
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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.

Reply to
Oregonian Haruspex

But it isn?t 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 Pu?er Bubble. It ended just about 8 years ago, wiping out a large number of people. A good place to read about this is ?Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic? by Jinghong Zhang.

/Lew

Reply to
Lewis Perin

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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Oregonian Haruspex

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