A mask with a purchase price of 60 cents sold for 1 yuan and was fined 42,630 yuan. what do you think?

There is a news on the Internet that has attracted the attention of many netizens: honghu city Kang Hua Pharmacy sold 1 yuan masks in 0.6 yuan (the pharmacy bought 44,000 disposable masks on 1 month 23rd), and was fined 42,630 yuan by honghu city Municipal Market Supervision Administration for allegedly driving up the price, and its illegal income was confiscated 142 10 yuan. A stone stirs up a thousand waves. In COVID-19, the epidemic is spreading. Today, masks are hard to find. Is this 1 yuan mask expensive? To this end, many netizens have come out to question whether law enforcement is excessive. On February 12, 2020, 13, Weibo, the official of honghu city Market Supervision Administration of Hubei Province, issued a statement on the incident of "0.6 yuan in a pharmacy in HB was fined for selling 1 yuan", claiming that the difference between the purchase and sale of masks sold by this pharmacy exceeded 15%, which constituted price fraud.

What pushed up the price?

According to the Guiding Opinions of the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau on the Identification and Treatment of Price Violations in the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia Infection in novel coronavirus issued by the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, three specific standards are given for price gouging:

The price before (1) 65438+1October 2 1 is the original price, and the selling price exceeds the original price from the 22nd (applicable to: the same commodity has been sold before, and the purchase price has not changed).

(2) The purchase price of merchants has changed, but the difference between purchase and sale is larger than that before 65438+ 10 and 2 1 (applicable to the situation that the same commodity has been sold before, but the purchase price has increased).

(3) Without reference to the original price, the bid-ask spread exceeds 15% (applicable to those that have not been sold before and will be sold after 22 days).

In fact, as a pharmacy, I don't believe that this pharmacy has never sold masks before, so the second item listed in the punishment decision: "There is no reference price for the goods sold, and the purchase and sale price exceeds 15%", which is difficult to establish; Secondly, talk about the first point. During the first-level response of public health, the price of medical commodities and protective disinfection commodities related to the epidemic situation shall not be increased. If the price of masks before the epidemic was 1 yuan/piece, then the merchants did not violate the law at all, because the selling price was the original price. Even if the sales price goes up, as long as the purchase price goes up, and the difference between the purchase price and the original price has not changed, then the merchant has not violated the rules.

Finally, even if the price of the merchant is higher than before (for example, it used to cost 80 cents a piece), during the current epidemic period, the merchant sold 1 yuan/piece, which is actually not too much, and it is still within a reasonable price range. Moreover, it can even be said that the security guard at the entrance of our community is even more heartless with the canteen (the property has never been informed in writing or orally that it is necessary to wear a mask when entering the community, and the owner picks up the courier at the rookie station at the entrance of the community, and the security guard does not prompt). Express delivery comes in, the security guard says you can't enter the community without a mask, and then asks you to go to the grocery store next to the security guard post to buy a three-no product mask and a 25 yuan, and then is willing to let you in, whether you buy it or not, but you must have a mask on your hand. Compared with these profiteers, honghu city Municipal Market Supervision Administration has indeed gone too far in enforcing the law on Kang Hua pharmacies. You should catch more real profiteers when you have time.