Mask of Madness: The first year of 2020, 19, changed.

During the Lantern Festival, the crazy mask market is expected to stabilize.

On the one hand, the supply side began to exert its strength.

On February 8th, China National Textile and Apparel Council revealed that more than 60% of medical and health textile enterprises have started to resume production. Thousands of enterprises such as masks and protective clothing were thoroughly investigated, and Changyi member enterprises resumed production.

By noon on the 7th, Sinopec had completed 1 1 mask production line with its partners and was about to enter the equipment installation procedure. According to preliminary estimates, Sinopec will help increase the production capacity of masks by 6.5438+0.3 million tablets/day, and increase the production capacity to 600,000 tablets/day on the 29th.

In addition, the tangible hand began to intervene. Prior to this, on February 5, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued a notice, demanding that price violations of prevention and control materials such as masks be severely and quickly investigated.

For more than half a month, volunteers who witnessed all kinds of chaos in the mask market told the truth (a pseudonym), and they are still worried.

"I have seen scammers who sell fakes, scammers who don't deliver goods, and middlemen who hoard goods." The truth is indignation.

During June 2 1 day 19, the mask market has been undercurrent.

Huge demand raid

However, Li Ke's Taobao shop mainly focuses on daily necessities such as mothers and babies, and masks are just Korean products that he usually buys at will.

Under the snap, the masks in Li Ke's shop were quickly out of stock.

In order to meet the soaring demand of customers as much as possible, Li Ke canceled the original trip and began to actively look for goods.

Even though Li Ke's shop has sold Japanese and Korean mask products for a long time and accumulated some local supplier resources, Li Ke found it extremely difficult to find masks from the beginning.

"In the past, everyone imported cosmetics and skin care products from South Korea and rarely imported masks from South Korea. Our demand for masks is also sudden for South Korea. Moreover, the Korean Spring Festival is also a holiday. " Li ke said.

As of February 4th, the monthly sales volume of KF94 masks in Li Ke's shop exceeded 25,000, showing that they were out of stock.

As a daily necessities Taobao shop, Li Ke didn't expect to receive the demand from hospitals and epidemic frontline where medical supplies were in emergency.

In the case of shortage of materials, he chose to send his own masks to places where they were needed more.

"On June 30, 65438, a little girl in Wuhan didn't have a mask, so I gave her the mask for private use first." Li Ke, who lives in Hangzhou, thinks that Wuhan people need masks more than he does.

In Li Ke's view, the mask situation is changing every day, and he has been "pushed away" these days.

If you are from an e-commerce, you have a similar feeling.

According to the truth, I have no intention of celebrating the New Year's Eve.

He saw in a WeChat group that a first-line hospital said there were gap covers and protective clothing; In another group, he saw some enthusiastic people and foundations expressing that they wanted to raise materials for the front line but lacked channels; In the circle of friends, he saw someone saying that there was a source of goods.

"I just want to collect information to facilitate the docking of supply and demand." On the first day of the new year, Yan Zhen set up a new group to collect the resources of the mask factory that could be contacted after the original work and provide them to those in need.

To Yan's surprise, the WeChat group he established attracted more and more people.

"People keep looking for me, and people keep joining the group. There are many first-line hospitals for emergency help. "

A certain health bureau provides pictures to the interviewees who ask for help.

Profit-seekers swarmed in.

Before the outbreak, there was no gap in the domestic market.

According to the data released by China Textile Business Association, the output of masks reached 4.54 billion in 20 18.

65438+1On October 29th, Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and Information Technology of China, said that the maximum production capacity of masks in China is more than 20 million a day.

However, the demand for masks broke out during the Spring Festival when the mask factory stopped production.

65438+1On October 28th, the Shanghai Economic and Information Committee, after conducting a comprehensive investigation on the production and inventory of masks in the whole city, said that the shortage of masks was due to the suspension of production during the Spring Festival holiday. "Most of the 26 production enterprises in Shanghai have stopped production for holidays, workers have gone home, raw materials have stopped, and logistics has stopped."

The mask factory stopped production and the demand soared. "From the New Year's Day (65438+1October 25th), the battle for masks has already begun." Tell the truth.

It is observed that from 25th, people who have access to the resources of manufacturers, such as WeChat merchants, smell business opportunities and start to grab brand masks such as 3M.

On 26th, he heard the news that 3M's agents began to control masks, which showed that the sellers who claimed to get domestic 3M masks were not trustworthy except formal institutions.

On the 27th, Yan Zhen discovered that the mask factory in stock was supplied to the outside world.

Faced with limited mask resources, middlemen hoard goods.

The hype about the price of masks in the market is even more disgusting.

According to reason, in order to make a profit, middlemen with masks will try their best to compare prices for a long time after receiving a lot of money, and finally sell them to buyers with high bids.

What makes the truth even more desperate is that there is far more than one middleman between suppliers and buyers.

To tell the truth, a few cents from an ordinary single medical mask will become four dollars or even more in the market. "A lot of WeChat business comes out, and you don't know how many hands your mask has passed."

As the end of multi-level chain, it is difficult for ordinary consumers to buy regular masks with relatively reasonable prices.

On the evening of February 4th, in the "mask-protective clothing demand group" established by Yan Zhen, some netizens sent a message: "There are 20 Japanese N95 masks with air valves, which can be received in three days, every 65 yuan."

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After being questioned by group friends about the high price, the netizen posted a price comparison of the same type of masks sold by e-commerce, indicating that his price was reasonable.

Half a month ago, on1October 20th, 65438, a pack of 3M brand N95 masks was sold in 30 yuan at Ali Pharmacy, and the unit price was only 10 yuan.

Fake goods quietly entered the market.

Fearing that the first-line purchase of masks would fail, Yan Zhen also set up a "medicinal material identification group", and the source of goods could be sent to the group for identification by doctors and other professionals in the group.

During this period, Yan Zhen found that the counterfeit goods identified by the group were as high as 80%.

Volunteers who coordinate the protection materials are angry at the confusion.

What's more, direct "empty gloves and white wolves" fraud.

I've experienced it myself. "Liars claim to be direct suppliers. After receiving the money, he will shirk the delivery twice. One minute he will say that customs is no good, and the next he will say that logistics is no good. After casting the net, he ran away with the money. "

Since then, in order to avoid similar phenomena, Yan Zhen has always stressed to buyers that more attention should be paid to upstream sellers and it is recommended to adopt a bank remittance model that is easy to recover the payment.

However, under the fission spread of WeChat, buyers still entered the scam one after another.

"Many scams are not difficult to see through, but the demand for masks by most demanders is very urgent. In the case of tight frontline, there is simply not enough time to clearly identify them. " I really feel weak.

Overseas resources are just a drop in the ocean.

At the same time, overseas goods are constantly emerging.

According to the truth, the countries of origin of masks abroad are very rich. According to his observation, there are United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, India and Russia.

However, overseas sources of goods are only a drop in the bucket in meeting market demand.

Taking South Korea as an example, Jianghan (pseudonym), who has lived in Lianyungang for a long time, volunteered to help domestic buyers connect with Korean suppliers to purchase masks after the demand for masks broke out.

"The industrial chain between China and South Korea is very close. Korean mask raw materials also need to be imported from China, but China has a shortage of raw materials. " Jiang Han said.

The phenomenon of price gouging in the domestic mask market quickly spread to foreign countries.

Li Ke bluntly said that in the recent docking with Korean suppliers, because the price was not as high as that of bidders, it was a common phenomenon that orders were destroyed, and his goods could only come in from various suppliers bit by bit.

"But so far, 80% or 90% of the deposit I paid has not been received." Li ke said.

In fact, overseas masks also have problems of different quality.

It is reasonable to say that some expired masks from foreign sources have entered the market as good products, while product introductions in other languages have deceived many people who don't know the truth.

In addition, there are problems in logistics customs clearance and transportation of overseas goods, and the relevant policies of other countries also hinder the smooth purchase and return of masks. Some countries began to ban the export of protective materials abroad.

On June 365438+1October 3 1, official website, the Indian General Administration of Foreign Trade issued a notice prohibiting the export of personal protective equipment such as masks and protective clothing during the COVID-19 epidemic.

"Crazy" will fade.

The crazy "mask" market is expected to stabilize.

Local market supervision bureaus are strengthening the investigation and punishment of fake and shoddy masks and sitting on the ground.

On February 4 th, a few days ago, Beijing cracked the first case of selling counterfeit masks across provinces, arrested four suspects and seized more than 2 10000 counterfeit 3M brand masks.

On February 3, Gan Lin, deputy director of the State Administration of Market Supervision, said at the press conference that we should crack down on the behavior of "making money" by sitting on the ground and starting at a price. At present, the overall price order is basically stable. As of February 1 day, the whole system * * * dispatched 390,000 price law enforcement personnel, and put on record and investigated price violation cases 14 13.

Domestic mask production capacity continues to increase.

On February 2, at the press conference held by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Cao, deputy director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department, said that at present, the return to work rate of mask enterprises is 60%, and the daily output exceeds 65.438+million according to the total production capacity.

Some enterprises that did not produce masks have also announced that they will join the production capacity one after another.

On February 6th, according to media reports, entrusted by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, China Petrochemical will build a mask production line to give full play to its advantages in producing raw materials. At present, China Petrochemical has contacted mask manufacturers and mask machine manufacturers who lack meltblown cloth, and the mask machine is in stock.

In addition, local governments are constantly promoting the work of increasing the production capacity of masks. Foxconn, SAIC-GM-Wuling and other large enterprises have also joined the ranks of mask production, and their production capacity has increased rapidly.