A tree trunk that was sold for more than IT COST after the seller lied that it came from a rare phoebe zhennan tree. The Straits Times/Asia News Network
CHINA: A man was arrested in China after selling an ordinary tree trunk for RM1.08mil, reports said.
The man, surnamed Lin, bought the old tree trunk three years ago at RM129, which means he turned a profit of about 8,000 times his cost.
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