Jail terms await those selling Antigen Test Kits online, warn RTP

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

The Royal Thai Police spokesman Pol Col Krissana Pattanacharoen has warned people not to sell Covid-19 antigen test kits online. 

 

They can only be sold by medical facilities or pharmacies.

 

This is because they need to come with an official recommendation on how to use them. 

 

The penalty for selling such things online is 6 months in jail and or a fine of 50,000 baht. 

 

Misleading the public in the sale of medical equipment can result in even more stringent jail terms and fines - 5 years and 500,000 baht, reported Daily News. 

 

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[Gottfrid]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Royal Thai Police spokesman Pol Col Krissana Pattanacharoen has warned people not to sell Covid-19 antigen test kits online. 

 

They can only be sold by medical facilities or pharmacies.

 

This is because they need to come with an official recommendation on how to use them.

Really? I thought it was because it is easier to have a hand in the game that way. But, who am I? I can be wrong.

[smedly]

they must be afraid of people acquiring and distributing/selling  ineffective substandard  medical products from China LMAO

[Dogmatix]

Why are we talking about antigen tests?  Lateral flow tests are the new standard. Maybe the LFTs are not available from China!

[tomazbodner]

32 minutes ago, smedly said:

they must be afraid of people acquiring and distributing/selling  ineffective substandard  medical products from China LMAO

They are distributing exact same ones as the government pharmacies are offering. They come with A4 instructions sheet in English and Thai, a pictorial that is very easy to follow. So if what Shopee sellers are selling is substandard and ineffective, so is the stuff government is offering.

[Excel]

32 minutes ago, smedly said:

they must be afraid of people acquiring and distributing/selling  ineffective substandard  medical products from China LMAO

Not really but by restricting the numbers offered for sale at "official" outlets they achieve two things. Firstly they will know the numbers for sale and hence know numbers of kick-back per test kit anticipated and secondly, by limiting the number of tests kits made available they limit the number of positive tests found as a result

[ikke1959]

The trade and profits of the scammers of the Government has to be protected.. If it cost them money throw everyone in jail. In Europe these test kits are free and almost everywhere available

[tomazbodner]

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

The trade and profits of the scammers of the Government has to be protected.. If it cost them money throw everyone in jail. In Europe these test kits are free and almost everywhere available

Free for end users, but they still cost money to produce. Someone has to pay for them, usually tax payers.

 

Different motives behind limiting availability (and I'd bet you have to leave your details when you buy one and get a follow up call - how was the result? Oh yeah? Photo to prove it, please!)

[ukrules]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

This is because they need to come with an official recommendation on how to use them.

Lies, pure lies. Many of us know people in places like the UK who have been handing out boxes of these to anyone who wants them. My father used a load of them over the months, they are very easy to use and nobody cares about 'official recommendation' - the manufacturers recommendataion is all that ever matters - so the real reason is something else entirely.

 

3 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

Why are we talking about antigen tests?  Lateral flow tests are the new standard. Maybe the LFTs are not available from China!

Lateral flow tests are antigen tests.

 

3 hours ago, Excel said:

by limiting the number of tests kits made available they limit the number of positive tests found as a result

Yes, I suspect the above is the reason.

 

[ourmanflint]

Would it be OK to send lateral flow tests from UK to family in Thailand do you think. They are free here

[sapson]

10 minutes ago, ourmanflint said:

Would it be OK to send lateral flow tests from UK to family in Thailand do you think. They are free here

Yes go ahead thats fine no problem.

[ChipButty]

5 hours ago, smedly said:

/selling  ineffective substandard  medical products from China LMAO

It's ok the government do it?

[ChipButty]

20 minutes ago, ourmanflint said:

Would it be OK to send lateral flow tests from UK to family in Thailand do you think. They are free here

My daughter gets them for free she was wanting to send me some, no cannot

[LongTimeLurker]

2 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

My daughter gets them for free she was wanting to send me some, no cannot

What is stopping her?

[ChipButty]

4 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

What is stopping her?

I was worried when it lands here what could happen

[hanuman2543]

It seems like another monopoly for overpriced Covid tests is in the making. In other countries the governments were happy that people took the initiative to import these tests and selling them to all who needed them. 

Why you have to go to jail for the same here?

Edited July 19, 2021 by hanuman2543

[CALSinCM]

Only monopolies are allowed.

 

[ourmanflint]

14 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I was worried when it lands here what could happen

In what way? 

[CALSinCM]

Just now, hanuman2543 said:

It seems like another monopoly for overpriced Covid tests is in the making. In other countries the governments were happy that people took the initiative to import these tests and selling them to all who needed them. 

Why you have to go to jail for the same here?

What amazes me is that these people think their own average countrymen are so dumb as to not to see through the rules and laws put into place to protect the financial interests of very, very rich Thais.  The Thais I know comment on this all the time.  I'm amazed at how well they grasp what is transpiring and why. 
To paraphrase Matt Taibbi, the Thai government is becoming the "Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells of money." Eventually the public will have had enough.  Then it doesn't seem so off-base when certain exiled Thais state that they'll be coming back perhaps riding on the back of public blowback.

[LongTimeLurker]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

This is because they need to come with an official recommendation on how to use them. 

So how come whenever I get a half dozen bags of meds from a hospital pharmacy here there are no instructions on howto use them? Contraindications, etc.

 

Haven't they heard of Google?

Edited July 19, 2021 by LongTimeLurker

[from the home of CC]

tests lol, the fastest growing online business in the west is phony vax certificates which imo should warrant a mandatory prison sentence..

[DaveE13]

33 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

tests lol, the fastest growing online business in the west is phony vax certificates which imo should warrant a mandatory prison sentence..

Not in uk. You have to download the NHS link. Put your details in DOB etc. Then it links to your vaccination with a 2D Barcode which lasts 30 days.

No phony vax certificates here.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

This is because they need to come with an official recommendation on how to use them

Do they not come with the manufacturers instructions?

Or is this just Big brother again?

Edited July 19, 2021 by hotchilli

[DaveE13]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

My daughter gets them for free she was wanting to send me some, no cannot

I was thinking of sending some to the gf in bkk but had the same thoughts that maybe will be siezed by customs 

[tomazbodner]

1 hour ago, ourmanflint said:

Would it be OK to send lateral flow tests from UK to family in Thailand do you think. They are free here

My last batch sent by German seller on eBay got confiscated by Thai Customs. Apparently not allowed to import.

[kynikoi]

This might reduce the copy fraud but not the extortion. Everyone forgets the b15 medical masks, b200 bottles of alcohol and the jugs of b1400 hand sanitizer.

 

Why will this be different?

[CALSinCM]

Here's one of my favorite.  Many Traditional Thai Medicines are being touted as working to alleviate Covid.
But sell a Traditional Thai Medicine online and claim it alleviates Covid and go directly to prison. 

So only certain, special people and institutions can give out TTM for Covid and everyone else is a fake and fraud and needs to go to jail.

How does that work in reality?  Same way it works for cannabis.

Certain people are protected and others are not?  This country really does suck sometimes.  All about money and wealth and power.

[MrJ2U]

9 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Really? I thought it was because it is easier to have a hand in the game that way. But, who am I? I can be wrong.

Whatever they can do pillage the Thai populace.

9 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

They are distributing exact same ones as the government pharmacies are offering. They come with A4 instructions sheet in English and Thai, a pictorial that is very easy to follow. So if what Shopee sellers are selling is substandard and ineffective, so is the stuff government is offering.

Shoppee has a money back guarantee though.

[tomazbodner]

5 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

Shoppee has a money back guarantee though.

Noticed that at the bottom. I rarely use Shopee... Now probably first time in 2-3 years.

 

I ordered tests before police started making fuss over offering them online. It was supposed to be pre-order to ship 2 weeks later but actually shipped immediately. Received them last week. Sealed, looking good. Expire in 2023. Looks like they were bulk packed, and then resold individually. Come with copied piece of instruction paper. The brand of the test is SD Biosensor.

Edited July 19, 2021 by tomazbodner

[MrJ2U]

11 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Noticed that at the bottom. I rarely use Shopee... Now probably first time in 2-3 years.

 

I ordered tests before police started making fuss over offering them online. It was supposed to be pre-order to ship 2 weeks later but actually shipped immediately. Received them last week. Sealed, looking good. Expire in 2023. Looks like they were bulk packed, and then resold individually. Come with copied piece of instruction paper. The brand of the test is SD Biosensor.

I'll check it out.  

 

There are pharmacist in Thailand buying in bulk from Alibaba.  

 

Oxygen tanks is what I want.  Dying from lack of Oxygen sounds something out of a nightmare.