Shell game. Place a pearl on the table, enter 3 cups. The con artist spins a yarn about this special pearl. You play, lose, play again, lose; but the third time. The third time he tricks you into winning. You take the prize "bait" and depart with a feeling of accomplishment. Now that pearl is as real as the piles of guns we left behind in iraq. But what your unsuspecting client has yet to realize is. They've paid more to play the game than if they just bought the pearl outright. All the while our delightful antagonist is trotting from town to town with a pocket full of pearls. And money. To sell them outright depreciates the market value. And makes you look like a criminal. But in blatant disregard for the Budapest referendum. An honest criminal could theoretically confiscate an entire region of small pearl manufacture. And very much destabilize the market. Severely damaging the reputation of any previous associates and or partners. Especially if said dealings had no fence and dealt direct under the table. So what to do with a pocket full of pearls and a bad rap? Go full robin hood. Ensure everyone has access to pearls. Drop the price like a hot frying pan. Nothing destroys the value of an object like putting it in the hands of the poor.