Someone selling his Red Mark

[apache]

I just saw this and the asking price is HK $600,000.

http://www.hkteaforum.com/forum.php?mod ... a=page%3D1

Say UK £1 = HK $ 11.9 and the cake is 350 g

This would be £144 per g, just for comparison gold price at the moment is c. £25 per g. It costs almost six times the price of gold in weight!

[Tead Off]

Gold is also a nicer color.

[TwoDog2]

I just saw this and the asking price is HK $600,000.

http://www.hkteaforum.com/forum.php?mod ... a=page%3D1

What a sucker. I saw that tea on aliexpress for $19.99 /s

[apache]

I just saw this and the asking price is HK $600,000.

http://www.hkteaforum.com/forum.php?mod ... a=page%3D1

What a sucker. I saw that tea on aliexpress for $19.99 /s

In the same vein, why spend tens of thousand of dollars on a Rolex watch, you probably can get one for 10 or 20 bucks in Times Square.

[shah82]

Dude is either very hard up or it ain't real. That's like $5500 or something like that.

[paxl13]

Dude is either very hard up or it ain't real. That's like $5500 or something like that.

/s meant sarcasm if I read TwoDog correctly

[apache]

Gold is also a nicer color.

Yes, pure gold does have a very attractive hue which no other element has. What gives gold this colour is a rather interesting question and only very recently does science come up with an answer which involves quantum mechanics and Einstein's special relativity. This effect only holds if there are enough gold atoms stick together but in colloidal gold, the individual gold particle suspended in liquid is too small to give the normal gold colour, instead you would see a hue from red to deep purple depend on the sizes of the particles.

[apache]

Dude is either very hard up or it ain't real. That's like $5500 or something like that.

Whether he is hard up or not I couldn't tell, but I know he has just bought a batch of 48 cakes of 2001 Xiaguan iron cakes a couple of months ago. The Red Mark which he is "selling" looks a lot more convincing than the one I saw displaying in Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, HK.

[shah82]

How do you mean that it looks more convincing? I wouldn't be able to tell by the looks, especially if someone made an effort...

[apache]

How do you mean that it looks more convincing? I wouldn't be able to tell by the looks, especially if someone made an effort...

If you ever saw the one showing in the Flagstaff House in HK, you would see what I mean. It was re-wrapped in paper looks as if it was printed yesterday. At least the one he is selling hasn't been open and looks it has been around for sometime. But I don't think he is selling it seriously, if he really want to sell it, he could take it to Puerh House, I'm sure Henry will be interested if the price is right. This seller already sold quite a number of old cakes on this forum and I would be surprise if someone would bid for it. But I could be wrong, as there are a number of tea traders on that forum, they might be interested.

[kyarazen]

Gold is also a nicer color.

Yes, pure gold does have a very attractive hue which no other element has. What gives gold this colour is a rather interesting question and only very recently does science come up with an answer which involves quantum mechanics and Einstein's special relativity. This effect only holds if there are enough gold atoms stick together but in colloidal gold, the individual gold particle suspended in liquid is too small to give the normal gold colour, instead you would see a hue from red to deep purple depend on the sizes of the particles.

thats because of localized surface plasmons between the sizes of a few nanometres to probably a hundred nanometers

wont be surprised if someone in china picks up the red mark at that price (about $100k?).

[Tead Off]

Dude is either very hard up or it ain't real. That's like $5500 or something like that.

US$77,419. to be exact.

[shah82]

Oh gosh, a magnitude off, sorry. I kept eyeballing with two zeros off and working from there instead of one. That price makes sense!

[puyuan]

I hope it ends up in Daketang or somewhere similar so that I can share a pricey pot with other damned souls while it's still possible...

[toby]

Whether he is hard up or not I couldn't tell, but I know he has just bought a batch of 48 cakes of 2001 Xiaguan iron cakes a couple of months ago.

I only bought one