Indeed. Part of it is ignorance – it’s not easy to get educated on a subject as deep as tea in the U.S., even if you only focus on one category (puer, or just shu puer or something more specific than that even).
She paid somewhere in the mid $60 range. She purchased it knowing it was fake, fortunately, as she’d some samples and was getting an entire beeng to split with a few more knowledgeable people to try and determine if it was real or not.
M.
