I need money to lead my life, But...

I need money to lead my life, But...

Europe is clearly shows the grip of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, countries including Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, the U.K, and Ukraine—have all recorded their highest daily case loads since the pandemic started.

I'm sure that if this second wave grows bigger than the first wave or even similar to the first wave, the fatal rate will be very high to compare with the first wave. 

One of the reason would be the fake intermediaries in this PPE trade.

Brokers, connected to brokers, connected to brokers and connected to brokers increases the trade chain to infinite level and the front line warriors and patients die due to non availability of their PPE products. At recent past we read a news about the death of a health care professional on non availability of N95 mask in USA. An N95 mask!

But just think that at what level of N95 quantity we are seeing in posts at linkedin daily. Billions, Trillions. But a health care professional dies without access to her basic protective item.

As a responsible person at this pandemic situation, I wont deal with any products which I don't see in my own eyes. As a manufacturer, I will deal with the products only which are produced in front of my own eyes. I take responsibility of the supply of these products which I'm supplying to the needy people.

Even though I could make money in trading products which I don't produce on my own or see the product in person, I wont do that trade - to reduce the number of intermediately people in this trade. I don't want to be a dead weight on this trade.

Trading business is not at all wrong.

But being in the trade and running behind unknown sources and clueless buying leads, will definitely ruin the market and it will definitely make trouble in reaching the real products to the real needy people at right time.

If any one ask me for Nitrile gloves, I will say frankly as "NO, I don't deal with Nitrile gloves" as I said all these times. Because I never produced nitrile gloves and I don't have a direct factory contact who produce nitrile gloves. 

Even though I get selling offers and buying needs of Nitrile gloves at my DM often, I openly say them that I don't deal nitrile gloves as I don't know the authenticity of those products availability as well as those buying leads.

I believe that If people follow these practice, the product would reach the needy people without much delay and trouble. I may be wrong, but I strongly believe this.

Level 1 - Are you a direct buyer? 

Level 2 - Are you an agent of a direct buyer?

Level 3 - or at least, are you an agent of an agent and know your agent's customer's name at least?

You can be in this trade. Or even one or two more levels can be there in certain cases.

Exactly these levels will apply to the sellers and factories side too.

According to me, from the factory to end consumer, the levels / intermediaries should be less than 10. Not more than that. Its great if its less than 5.

If the levels are beyond that for any product, the "extra people" can be sure that they are helping indirectly to increase the death rate of this pandemic situation.

I need money to lead my life, but, not on others death!