Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
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Re: Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
#2> Another obstacle comes from companies like Facebook and Google, which banned the sale and advertising of N95 masks in an effort to thwart profiteers from diverting vital medical gear needed by frontline medical workers.
In their desire to wield censorship to avoid bad PR, these companies are actually hindering some of the people doing the best work (and taking on their own financial risk!) to help. This is despicable.
Why are large corporations so cowardly?
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#3I have noticed that Google Shopping is blocking results for "N95 mask" in the UK, making it more difficult to find retailers which sell them. On the other hand there are thousands upon thousands of results on eBay/Amazon, most of which cannot be trusted.
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#4> The problem is getting consumers to their retail websites. At the moment, anyone trying to buy N95 masks on Google Shopping or Facebook Marketplace is greeted with a blank page; on Amazon, a search for N95s yields a welter of vendors hawking KN95 masks, a Chinese-made equivalent that researchers say is less effective.
> “How is it that you can spread conspiracy theories on Facebook, but we can’t sell N95 masks to the millions of Americans who need them right now?” Mr. Brown asked. “I can understand Facebook not wanting to sell masks made by some guy in his garage, but these masks meet strict N.I.O.S.H. guidelines.”
I can more understand the first half of the article, about ingrained purchasing processes in hospitals etc. leaving newcomers with unbought supply, but this is nuts. All the crap that Amazon does show if you search 'mask' or 'respirator' over the last year, and they refuse to list genuine stuff?
I still have a disposable FFP3 (UK/EU N99 equivalent I believe) from a couple of years before the pandemic, it was £1.12ea or much less in packs. Currently I'd have to pay 10x that for a shitty piece of ill-fitting cloth. (It's probably technically past its shelf life, but it can't be worse than fabric that never met any filtration specification.)
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#5> Another obstacle comes from companies like Facebook and Google, which banned the sale and advertising of N95 masks in an effort to thwart profiteers from diverting vital medical gear needed by frontline medical workers. In their desire to wield censorship to avoid bad PR, these companies are actually hindering some of the people doing the best work (and taking on their own financial risk!) to help. This is despicab…
Why do people keep asking this question when pretty obviously big corporations have big PR and marketing departments that when they tell you you're going to lose a lot of money from consumer disengagement and are looking at a senate investigation, so what corporations are literally built to only do and take the most profitable option?
This isn't a mystery. Public pressure doesn't work because corporations "feel bad".
Re: Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
#6> The problem is getting consumers to their retail websites. At the moment, anyone trying to buy N95 masks on Google Shopping or Facebook Marketplace is greeted with a blank page; on Amazon, a search for N95s yields a welter of vendors hawking KN95 masks, a Chinese-made equivalent that researchers say is less effective. > “How is it that you can spread conspiracy theories on Facebook, but we can’t sell N95 masks to t…
It might just be me, but even if Google and Facebook were happy to advertise their masks I'd assume they were fake/bad quality if they were being advertised on those platforms - in the same way that Amazon clearly are selling rubbish. Not sure what the solution to that is though.
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#7I purchased some at Home Depot recently for $4/pc (they had plenty in stock, Seattle area). The company mentioned here is selling [0] them for $3.75/pc, but only in quantities of 20 ($75).
I wish N95’s did not necessitate the second strap, but hey, it’s better than COVID!
[0] https://shop.demetech.us/collections/n95-respirator-masks/pr...
Edit: for the record, I think the ones I got at Home Depot are nicer. They have a foam cushion on the bridge of the nose and a super sturdy “pinch”.
Re: Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
#8> Another obstacle comes from companies like Facebook and Google, which banned the sale and advertising of N95 masks in an effort to thwart profiteers from diverting vital medical gear needed by frontline medical workers. In their desire to wield censorship to avoid bad PR, these companies are actually hindering some of the people doing the best work (and taking on their own financial risk!) to help. This is despicab…
Why do people keep asking this question when pretty obviously big corporations have big PR and marketing departments that when they tell you you're going to lose a lot of money from consumer disengagement and are looking at a senate investigation, so what corporations are literally built to only do and take the most profitable option? This isn't a mystery. Public pressure doesn't work because corporations "feel bad".
Public pressure to avoid being seen as profiting from opportunists seems to work.
Re: Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
#9Their shop (https://shop.demetech.us) ships only to United States, Canada and Mexico... so I am unable to buy it the easy way...
Re: Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell
#10Their shop ( https://shop.demetech.us ) ships only to United States, Canada and Mexico... so I am unable to buy it the easy way...
It also looks like a typical faceless drop ship company that I’d normally never buy anything from.