The Fake Masks Interest Chain Under The "Magnifying Glass": 4 Cents To Get The Goods Many Times To Sell 3 Yuan.

During the new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control period, respirators became necessities, but some illegal businesses turned their brains.

Consumer complaints about masks are common. Since the twenty-first Century economic report set up the "315 complaint platform", it has received multiple complaints about fake masks.

Fake masks flow into consumers through various channels such as e-commerce platforms, pharmacies and private sectors. Counterfeit "Piao an" mask is widely seen throughout the country, involving a wide range of influence.

In twenty-first Century, an economic report reporter learned that during the epidemic prevention and control period, the supply of masks was in short supply due to the inconvenience of logistics and transportation. After receiving the fake masks, consumers often choose to swallow the words "just do it", and consumers' rights and interests are greatly damaged.

In response, Lin Zhao, judge of Xicheng court in Beijing, said that according to the relevant provisions of the consumer protection law, consumers who buy goods or receive services through the online trading platform and whose legitimate rights and interests are damaged may demand compensation from sellers or service providers.

Wear three fake masks at a time.

At the beginning of two, Ceng Lin (a pseudonym) passed a Jia Da Ying residential quarter in Yuquan District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. She saw a large pharmacy, so she bought 20 packages of respirators. However, after a few days of dismantled use, it was found that it was a fake mask. Her home was far away from the pharmacy, and during the epidemic control, it was not convenient to go out, so she did not contact the pharmacy again.

"It's very thin, it's useless, so I have to wear three at a time." In March 9th, she issued a fake masks for the twenty-first Century business news reporter. From the appearance, she could see thin as cicada, and the quality was not up to the standard of protection.

The outer mask of the mask is written on "China Henan floating protection products", "disposable masks", and production numbers, product numbers, reference standards and other information. The address is located at Changyuan Ding Luan Industrial Park, Changyuan.

In March 9th, the economic report reporters in twenty-first Century called the government telephone of Ding Luan Town, Changyuan, Xinxiang, Henan, according to the address on the package. The staff member said, "there is no floating enterprise here, and Piao an company is not in our town."

Reporters again "Henan Piao Yu" as a keyword to inquire about the letter, only to inquire into "Henan new floating high tech Limited by Share Ltd", the address is located in Changyuan County Piao an industrial park, Henan Piao an group is one of the shareholders, holding nearly 30%.

In twenty-first Century, an economic report reporter called the Piao an group to explain the above situation. The staff said that the fake masks were not produced by Piao an group.

In March 11th, twenty-first Century, the economic report reporter contacted the head of the above pharmacy chain and issued the above fake mask. The official admitted that there was a pharmacy in the jijiaying residential district of Yuquan District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. He asked the company to purchase a query and explained that they had not purchased the "Henan Piao Yu" mask.

"If you investigate this shop, we will do something serious about it." He said.

Subsequently, the above district pharmacies contacted the twenty-first Century economic report reporter, he said guilt: "masks are scarce, the company did not deliver. The friend gave some (a total of 120 masks) and used them in the store. When I took it, I didn't know it was a fake. Bought a part of this customer. At present, the pharmacist has negotiated with Zeng Lin to complete the refund.

Fake "Piao an": take the lowest 4 points.

"This is not an example. There are other pharmacies selling fake masks in Hohhot." Zeng Lin said.

For example, the Hohhot news network showed that in February 26th, due to the sale of 970 bags of fake "Piao an" mask (25 yuan per bag and sales volume of 24250 yuan), in February 26th, Tian Zi medicine chain Limited was fined 250 thousand yuan by the Saihan district market supervision bureau.

Recently, the fake "Piao an" mask has been concentrated in many parts of the country. As early as January 28th, the official official of "Piao an Holdings Henan Limited" issued a letter of statement, which stated that in recent days, information on counterfeit and shoddy masks appeared frequently on the market. In order to enable consumers to identify the genuine and genuine products of Piao an brand, Piao an group made an example, for example, the product name of "Piao an group" was "disposable medical mask" and false risers. The product name of the cover is "disposable mask".

Piao an group also said that the company's protective products are mainly supplied by medical institutions such as Wuhan, Hubei, Henan, and so on, and have not been sold to drugstores such as Anhui and Huangshan City. After that, the official official issued many similar information about the announcement.

Against this background, many market supervision departments, public security organs and other departments have launched heavy punches to punish false masks.

On March 3rd, the Changsha people's Procuratorate informed that the hospital was authorized to arrest 3 suspects who were suspected of selling fake floating mask in accordance with the law. In March 9th, the official website of the Changsha people's Procuratorate reported that 1 million 900 thousand "problem masks" were coming, "floating safety" masks were counterfeited, dozens of traders were involved, and a number of cities in Hunan were inflow.

In twenty-first Century, the economic report reporters combined with many public cases to find out that behind the fake "Piao an" mask, there is a chain of interest, which is profitable for illegal producers and dealers.

Combing reporters found that some fake "Piao an" mask manufacturers were from Henan, and some were family workshops. Individuals and other dealers at low prices (usually 0.3 yuan / around, the minimum to 0.04 yuan / only) to get the goods, repeatedly transferred (known five level distribution), through personal, pharmacy, electronic business platform and other channels for sale, the price is generally 3 yuan / only. Among them, profits can be seen, and producers and distributors can benefit from it.

In the end, the illegal business will pay the price. On the morning of March 8th, the people's Court of Sheyang County of Jiangsu province adopted a remote video method to open a court hearing on the sale of counterfeit and shoddy disposable medical masks. The defendant was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment and 100 thousand yuan in penalty. The case is the first case of fake masks in Jiangsu.

Personal selling, fake masks are rampant.

For the above fake masks, Zhou Kai, deputy general manager of the pharmacy network mall, said in an interview with the twenty-first Century economic report reporter: "if the pharmacy strictly operates according to the" drug management quality management standard ", there is no sales of fake masks. That is to say, the masks sold by pharmacies should have quality inspection reports provided by the manufacturers, sales vouchers issued by the upstream dealers and invoices.

"Of course, it does not exclude individual pharmacies from selling fake and shoddy masks according to standard operation." Zhou Kai said, however, the risk of selling illegal masks is very risky, because consumers are monitoring, including quality and price.

Zhou Kai also said: "for the management of pharmacy, the current regulatory authorities follow the principle of online and offline consistency. We request that all epidemic prevention products sold in the pharmacy network mall must provide quality inspection reports, purchase vouchers and invoices. There is no problem in guaranteeing the quality of goods, the purchase price and the inventory, and strictly carrying out the "quality assurance, price protection and supply protection" in strict accordance with the requirements of the market supervision department.

In the view of Zhou Kai, the problem is still more. As a middleman, the sale of masks by individuals is not only unknown, but also involves various problems such as raising prices and not having sales qualifications.

For example, in twenty-first Century, the economic report "315 complaint platform" received a complaint message that the consumer bought masks from Russia through friends and wanted to use the factory to resume work. In February 23rd, he bought a batch of respirators by his friends, 30 thousand of which were imported from Russia, amounting to around 90 thousand yuan. The payment is only half the goods arrived, and the quality of the mask is poor. It belongs to the "three no products". The consumers feel helpless because there are no manufacturer labels on the masks on the basis of many times of changing hands.

Zhou Kai said that the pharmacy is a strong regulatory target, if there is a problem, they pay a huge price. At present, more regulatory blind spots lie in personal selling behavior, which is often driven by the indifference and high interests of the law, and personal selling behavior is often more difficult to regulate.

Rational view of price rising logic

"In the past few years, the law enforcement standards of different prices were different, so a large number of pharmacies were afraid to sell masks." Zhou Kai proposed.

During the epidemic prevention and control period, the market supervision departments severely cracked down on the price illegal acts of profiteering the use of the epidemic, and the pharmacies were frequently punished for driving up prices, price fraud, and failing to press the prescribed price tags.

In March 9th, the economic report reporters visited a pharmacist in a city in Fujian in twenty-first Century. The staff of the pharmacy said: "before the outbreak, a mask was sold for 30 Fen. Now the price of masks has increased due to the rising cost of raw materials and the shortage of supplies. Now the Government recommends that each mask be priced at 1.5 yuan. However, the actual price of each mask is currently 3.5 yuan, so even if sold at cost price, it will also be subject to consumer complaints, so simply do not sell. Reporters referred to the fake masks, which the pharmacy staff said, which belongs to individual pharmacies, selling fake masks costs a lot.

Speaking of consumers, Zhou Kai suggested that masks should be purchased from regular retail channels, so that in case of quality problems, it would be convenient for them to safeguard their rights. At the same time, consumers should also understand the rising retail prices caused by rising raw materials during the epidemic. At present, some provinces and cities have already made clear the reasonable profit margins of masks sales, so long as they are within this scope, they do not belong to bidding up prices, but they operate normally. Blind complaints eventually lead to the sale of masks without formal channels, rather than unauthorized sales of the formal channels, which ultimately hurt the interests of consumers themselves.

For reference, a week ago, the market supervisory authority of Xiangshan County of Zhejiang province reported that in 2 days, 7 complaints were reported to push the A drugstore to the cusp of public opinion.

"I drove more than 900 kilometers overnight and bought tens of thousands of KN95 masks from Jinhua, and the purchase price was 13 yuan / 16, only 16 yuan / only. I also said that I had a black heart. The cost of oil, rent and labor should also be considered as a cost." A the owner of the pharmacy repeatedly cried out.

Xiangshan county market supervision and Administration Bureau said that from the purchase notes and related transaction records he provided, the masks were priced legally and in compliance with the sales price of the same size KN95 mask sold in the market, so the market regulator decided that there was no price increase.

?