This article is from WeChat public account: Tech Planet (ID: tech618) , author: Zhou Xiaoqi

On March 2, the National Development and Reform Commission announced that the daily production capacity and daily output of Chinese masks continued to grow rapidly, and both exceeded 100 million.

The domestic panic masks are gradually being alleviated. The price of masks that have increased in value by several tens of times is slowly falling, and the domestic epidemic situation has been effectively controlled.

On the contrary, overseas epidemics have become more serious. According to public statistics, except for China, the cumulative number of new diagnoses of new coronary pneumonia has exceeded the million mark, which allows many people to see the business opportunities of masks going out to sea. .

“Now there are dozens of people looking for masks every day, as long as the spot can be sold out in minutes, without worrying about sales,” said Chen Guohua, a cross-border e-commerce business.

After the outbreak of the overseas epidemic, Chen Guohua took advantage of the business of going out to sea. As an intermediary channel dealer, he contacted domestic factories internally and communicated with overseas traders. Now his daily job is to find the source of supply and arrange delivery.

However, Chen Guohua told Tech Planet that he had seen the magic of the mask factory investing millions in the same day, and he himself had experienced the stimulus of making 100,000 a day, but the business of masks going to sea was not as simple and profitable as imagined. If you make money, you will lose money, and the “money printing machine” will become a “money crusher” if you accidentally lose it.

The following is Chen Guohua’s readme, edited and edited by Tech Planet:

Mask mask watershed

“Excess capacity at the low end, supply exceeds demand at the high end”

I have been in the cross-border e-commerce business for more than ten years. I have never been in contact with masks before. After the outbreak of overseas, a large number of customers came to us and asked us whether we should sell masks. This started the business of exporting masks.

Most small factories get our prepaid order money first, and then use the money to buy raw materials. When the masks are shipped, the factory becomes an auction house, and the buyer who bids high will take the money. the arrival.

Several batches of our orders have been cut off halfway. I once went to the factory to order at the price of 14 yuan and paid the full amount, but suddenly someone came out and went to the factory to bid 15 yuan to buy the goods. Sell ​​the goods to others.

Unavailable, we can only find the next factory urgently. When the same factory continues to wait, it is impossible to ship at the price of 14 yuan. They would rather pay my liquidated damages. The factory has already made enough money anyway.

In a short period of time, it is really impossible to find a factory to ship. We can only buy masks from other channel vendors at a high price. Overseas customers are still waiting for my masks, they have no time to talk to the factory, and there is no way to lose money.

Now I have sent people to the factory to squat. Where there are masks that meet the standards, I will send people to pick up the goods. At present, almost 10,000 or 20,000 masks can be obtained every day, plus a 10% profit, and it can be sold to channel providers for overseas users in an hour.

The mask factory is also very savvy. Large manufacturers usually receive more than 100,000 large orders to guarantee the bottom, and then make thousands of small orders to make money.

Because large orders will lower prices, and small orders have higher shipping prices, many factories have received many small orders privately. If the product is done well, some buyers will gather together and place orders at the factory, so that the price of the goods is low and the profit is more.

Now the mask spot is like a stock, one price per minute, no one may buy it in the first minute, but there are more people buying and selling in the next minute, and the price will rise.

We will also encounter customer refunds, because the standards of overseas countries are changing at any time, and the masks produced before do not meet the existing standards, customers will refund the orders, and we ca n’t help but refund, after all Cooperation with other businesses.

However, sometimes I get more money by returning the order. Once I just got the mask for the return. I had other customers want these masks in the afternoon, and the price also increased by 1.3 yuan. .


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