Hence, in Lin Li's opinion, the Nether Pearl was worth less than 50,000 gold coins, let alone 5,000,000.
However, Lin Li's disappointment was fleeting, and he soon remembered some of the tricks that those unscrupulous merchants would often pull. Selling an inferior item like it was of superior grade was one of such tricks. Another trick would be to take advantage of the shoppers' lack of knowledge to sell them the inferior goods. On the one hand, they didn't want to let the inferior item seem unattractive after being compared to the item that was of superior quality. On the other hand, they wanted to use this opportunity to raise the price of goods of better quality. If the inferior item could be sold for 5,000,000 gold coins, the one of superior quality had to cost at least 10,000,000 gold coins!
