Since the outbreak, market supervision departments at all levels have not neglected the supervision of illegal prices of people’s livelihoods.
Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account ” Financial Times APP “(ID: tf-app) , author: Lu Jieping.
Eternal benefits bring the same eternal madness. From masks to forehead guns, from meltblown cloths to sensors, the same story is constantly being performed.
Since the resumption of work in various parts of the country in February, the frontal temperature gun, as one of the important epidemic prevention supplies of new crown pneumonia, has quickly become like a mask to become a “supplied product” in short supply. It once skyrocketed to four or five hundred yuan.
In early February, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology forecasted that the demand for handheld temperature detectors is expected to climb to 550,000 units, and demand will erupt in a short period of time, while production capacity will need time to keep up.
According to the relevant report released by CCID Consulting, the annual production capacity of handheld infrared temperature detectors is only 300,000 units in 2019, and it is expected to reach 650,000 units in 2020. However, Times Finance learned from industry insiders that the actual production capacity of the temperature gun industry in 2019 is expected to be about 1 million to 1.5 million units. From the number of existing orders, the actual demand of the temperature measurement industry has soared to at least 15 million units.
The huge supply and demand gap has made the entire temperature measurement industry from core components to thermometers fry with hot cooking oil. The prices of upstream raw materials, including the core element temperature sensor of the temperature gun, have risen rapidly. According to the Times Finance, as the sales price of the amount of gun guns increased along the way, thermopile sensors also soared from less than 10 yuan to 115 yuan, an increase of more than 1000%.
In addition to the shortage of the upstream supply chain in the market, some intermediaries are hired by “golden masters” to store goods, creating the illusion of a shortage of goods in the market, which exacerbates the tension in the production of raw materials.
In foreign countries, the epidemic situation is getting worse, and students from various places will return to school to return to school. It is foreseeable that if the upstream and downstream supply and demand information of the temperature measurement industry still cannot be shared smoothly and smoothly, and the supply and demand are still unbalanced, intermediary speculation and price increases will continue to exist.
Sensors whose prices have been exploded 10 times
“755 hardcover 4 feet, 30 million pieces, 101 yuan / piece. Requires all food, strong ones, can whisper, do not spit. The transaction process: code words, commissions, deposits, pickup.” March On the 17th, an intermediary who claimed to have a large supply of infrared temperature sensors as the core component of the temperature gun released the above transaction information in a sensor WeChat trading group.
Such a message that may be confusing to outsiders, but received a lot of ridicule and doubt in the WeChat group immediately after sending it. “Brothers possible? 3 billion. You have neither the owner nor the goods, and the price is dead.” “