Antigen reagents are on sale, “disposal at a loss, instant delivery from stock”

Do you still remember a hard-to-find new crown antigen detection reagent that was out of stock on the entire network half a month ago? In the past two days, merchants have begun to sell off goods. From the price of more than 60 yuan per box in early December to the highest price of more than 8,000 yuan per box, a small antigen detection reagent will go back to the roller coaster at the end of 2022. There is an “antigen super chat” on Weibo, which was originally a platform for netizens to share the purchase channels of antigen detection reagents, but now it has completely become a large-scale idle transfer site, and many suspected scalpers and middlemen dump goods at low prices. | Related reading (The Paper)

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The three members of our family bought a box of 25 antigen test kits for about 75 yuan, and the unit price was 3 yuan before the epidemic was released, that is, at the end of November. All three members of a family were infected in December, and each person consumed an average of five. Now there are still ten left, and it feels that they will not be needed in a short time.

From panic buying by the whole people to being unable to sell, the situation encountered by the antigen kit is very similar to that of masks in early 2020. Hoarders and speculators are very shameful, which made the supply of antigen test kits very tight in the early stage. My parents also had a fever in the countryside, but because they couldn’t buy the test kits, they couldn’t confirm whether it was the new crown. The new manufacturers are also very greedy, hoping to take the opportunity to make a fortune, because the threshold is as low as that of a mask, which is a plastic shell and a test strip, even if it is cheap, it is a huge profit.

If, as experts say, one infection will not be re-infected for six months, then the size of this market can basically be calculated. Therefore, speculators and manufacturing companies who expect to get a share of the pie now, I am afraid that their dreams will come to naught.

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