* source: sina * author: tan jiling

Original title: mask sales margin "price gouging February 60 MAO mask 56,800 yuan caused widespread concern. Price difference of 40 cents, bid up the price?

On June 9, the WeChat public account said that recently, the market supervision bureau of honghu city launched an investigation into the behavior of huakang pharmacy in honghu city, which is suspected of raising the price of masks. After investigation, huakang pharmacy in honghu city sold disposable masks at 0.6 yuan 1 yuan 14,210 yuan, a fine

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According to the hubei provincial market supervision bureau's guidelines on the identification and handling of price violations during the prevention and control of covid-19, the pharmacy violated two regulations: one was "; The other is 15% ", which constitutes price gouging.

A person in charge of the regulation unit of the market supervision administration of honghu city, hubei province, surnamed wu, said to zhongxin jingwei client that during the investigation, the drugstore felt wronged. After all, the price increase was not high, but it still exceeded the standard recognized by hubei province. Therefore, in consideration of all kinds of circumstances, no top, severe or severe punishment was given, but a moderate range of punishment, and finally the pharmacy is relatively more acceptable.

According to the southern metropolis daily, the head of the hunan market supervision administration said that in addition to the announced 3D anti-smog masks and disposable surgical masks were also found to be involved in price gouging. In addition, the 2nd, market supervision bureau issued "will be coronavirus pneumonia epidemic prevention and control during the investigation of illegal bid up the price guidance" state, the operator on the basis of purchase cost substantially increase the price of foreign sales, the market regulator warned, still not correct immediately, to constitute the illegal ACTS related to bid up the price.

And in honghu market supervision administration's punishment notice, did not mention whether ". However, the state administration of market regulation document also said that before the opinions were issued, provincial market supervision departments or other relevant departments, with the consent of provincial people's governments, had already made specific provisions on the illegal ACTS of price gouging.

Fight in many places!

Starting from January 22, 2020, without reference to the original price, the purchase and sale price difference exceeds the administrative penalty of 0.195 yuan, 5 yuan and 1 million yuan on February 6, 2019.

Guizhou tongruntang pharmaceutical chain co., ltd. received 12.8 yuan, 49 yuan and 300% yuan for bidding up the third batch of typical cases of COVID 19 during the prevention and control of the epidemic, according to the guizhou provincial market supervision bureau Monday.

Lawyer: you can't just look at the margin

Some netizens think that 60 cents for 5 yuan, 20 yuan is too much. "This price has been very conscience, markup."

Yang baoguan, a senior partner at the Beijing zhongyin law firm, told zhongxin jingwei client that the action in hubei province had a legal basis and "although the amount is not large, according to hubei regulations, it has constituted price gouging."

Zhu lijia, a professor at the party school of the CPC central committee (national academy of governance), agreed that during epidemic prevention, businesses should sell masks in accordance with relevant regulations and policies. People may think that the price of masks is 0.6 yuan, a 15% increase in the standard price, suspected of price gouging."