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How China’s Private‑Domain Marketing Industry Uses Fake ‘Medical Experts’ to Sell Overpriced Health Products to Seniors
CCTV‑led reporting exposed a private‑domain marketing network in China that uses paid actors posing as medical experts to sell cheap medicines and supplements at sharply inflated prices to elderly consumers. Video producers, private‑domain operators and contractors create scripted lectures and sell products in closed social‑media channels, prompting likely regulatory scrutiny after the 3·15 consumer‑rights season.
Inside China’s Private‑Domain Sales Machine: Cheap Medicines Repackaged and Sold at Five‑Fold Markups to the Elderly
A 3·15 investigation exposed a private‑domain marketing industry in China that repackages low‑cost medicines and supplements into expensive, persuasive video lectures sold to elderly consumers. The scam hinges on fabricated expert authority and intimate social‑platform channels, yielding markups of up to five times the purchase price and prompting renewed regulatory scrutiny.