In those days, pouchong from neighboring Shi-ding Township cost just NT $ 500 – 600 per catty, giving Ping-lin farmers an incentive to buy Shi-ding tea and palm it off to tourists as the more expensive local product. The tourists, who didn ’ t know any better, were happy, thinking they ’ d gotten a good “ local price ” on high-quality Pinglin tea.
而同樣是包種茶，鄰近的石碇就只有 1 台斤五、六百元的行情，於是坪林茶農轉批石碇茶來混充「作假」，再以高價賣給來坪林遊玩的觀光客，不明就裡的遊客，還以為自己以便宜的「產地價」買到好茶而沾沾自喜呢！