3,000 accounts were banned in 2 days! As Amazon cracks down on the price hike of masks, here is the secret of shipping 200,000 masks a day...

As the COVID-19 epidemic spreads around the world, some people cannot buy masks, while others are hoarding them and driving up the prices. There is a shortage of masks in the United States. In online stores in the United States, a box of N95 masks is sold for $ 220 (about 1,527 yuan), with an average of 150 yuan per mask, which is 11 times the normal price .

Additionally, a bottle of hand sanitizer is priced at $48 on Walmart's website, while it normally sells for less than $ 4 .

Why are the prices of masks in the United States rising so fast?

On March 5 , U.S. Vice President Pence told everyone at a press conference, "Unless you are sick, there is no need to buy a mask."

Deborah Birx, an American medical doctor known as the "female Zhong Nanshan", has just taken office in the White House and was selected by Vice President Pence to serve as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. At the press conference, the doctor held up a disposable medical mask and told everyone: "Healthy people wearing such masks will not be protected."

As soon as they finished speaking, they exempted medical supplies such as masks from tariffs. This move was a slap in the face .

Now I ask Trump if you are panicking...

In response to the arbitrary price increases of protective products such as masks and hand sanitizers, California Attorney General Becerra said that for most goods and services, a price increase of more than 10% is illegal .

Prior to this, Russian President Vladimir Putin had bluntly stated that if any business wanted to make a fortune during the epidemic, their licenses would be revoked .

E-commerce platforms such as Amazon and eBay are making every effort to crack down on malicious price increases.

Amazon said recently that they have removed 530,000 products from the marketplace based on coronavirus price gouging and suspended more than 3,000 seller accounts on its U.S. marketplace for violating its price gouging policies .

It is reported that on March 6 and 7 , Amazon took down more than 1,000 and 2,000 foreign stores respectively, most of which were in China.

Amazon uses machines to detect price fraud to some extent, but has recently stepped up manual detection as price fraud has spread under the influence of the coronavirus,media reported.

Sellers, please take note. Amazon now uses “ machine + manual ” double inspection. If you continue to drive up prices, I’m afraid the gains will outweigh the losses!

On March 6 , eBay announced a complete ban on the sale of masks, hand sanitizers and disinfectant wipes to intensify its efforts to combat online price gouging. The new policy officially took effect last Friday.

According to reports, eBay has removed more than 20,000 items with descriptions related to the new coronavirus. In addition to the removal of existing items of this type, new items with words such as " coronavirus " and " COVID-19 " in their descriptions will also be removed.

There is a global shortage of masks now. Two European countries , Germany and Switzerland , have even escalated the fight for 240,000 masks to the diplomatic level .

Although masks and other epidemic prevention materials are selling well, and the country also encourages overseas exports, the price must be reasonable , because Amazon has recently strengthened manual monitoring and maintained uninterrupted work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in order to strictly crack down on price hikes. The editor here summarizes several operating methods of those sellers who sell masks well (including big sellers with daily shipments of 200,000 pieces) and have not been banned for your reference:

In addition, you must not sell fake masks that do not meet the quality standards . Once caught, your store will definitely be gone. Here is a method to check whether the mask is qualified:

Log in to the official website of the National Medical Products Administration ( www.nmpa.gov.cn ), and then click on the column of "Medical Devices" - "Domestic Devices". According to the instructions on the page, enter the medical device registration number or company name of the mask, and you can know the company production information and approval number information related to the product, and then you can know whether it is qualified.

Finally, I wish all mask sellers can make a lot of money. Sellers who have not yet sold masks can try sports health or equipment products, virus-related clothes, stress balls and other products, which are said to be also very popular on Amazon.