From the auction's own text:
"The color on this ball is not pearl purple.... it is a light blue"
That color is way different from the actual Barrage. Might have been a test run. Color definitely affects performance. How, it depends on the color and the ball. No telling how this ball might react: might be great, might be terrible. Just no way of knowing.
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"When we choose an action,
we also choose the consequences of that action.