First, the answer is “no”. Or at least, not now.
Days ago I had a talk with a guy who may have the same age as mine (I mentioned it in a previous post). He was in a panic and anxiously kept asking me if I could join him to sell surgical masks. Of course, my answer is “sorry but no” because to be honest, I’m always a circumspect man, especially in those things of business, such as the investment.
I’m not an economist or an expert in this field that can compose a thousands-words essay to try to find out why. The only thing I can tell is from my own experience. Nowadays even the Chinese government is encouraging not only the graduates but also the whole masses to start their own businesses. In this case, there appears a bunch of companies which is not set up for vending products, but for assisting other people to start their shops to sell, for example, drinks or desserts (If I remember correctly, it’s called “Franchise” or so on… I’m not a pro in this line). Many people thought that this was undoubtedly a good deal and immediately threw themselves in without more-or-less complete consideration and… to no one’s surprise, they failed miserably. I can imagine that they just thought that as franchisees they could earn money without any hard works, because in according to those ads, the franchisers will handle with everything in the duration of the preparation perfectly, including the supply, the storefront renovation, the training, the guidance and so on. In other words, it may be frank, those guys even had no idea what they were doing. They just heard that being a franchisee was a super convenient and rapid way to be a boss, and a boss always has a lot of money. That’s all. They didn’t know anybody relevant in this line, they had no idea about the raw materials, they even didn’t know how to manage their staff or how to react if there came a problem…
As for this poor guy who has invested 3 surgical masks production lines, I can imagine that he has been defrauded by someone who had promised before that he could definitely take good care of the shipment. Now that man has disappeared with the money, leaving this poor young man with the 3 piles of metal scrap. He now desirably tries to catch every tiny opportunity, implore every man who may help him. However, he still totally doesn’t know how to sell his products. What a tragedy.
Or there is another possibility: he was just in, without any hesitation. Well, if it’s true… nice courage haha.