That’s right four hundred forty masks (6 cents per). Yes it’s Amazon but this is a good deal.
This is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J1THV9G
It is from a sub-company of Amazon that specializes in deals so it is legit-ish. The ones a close friend received came in an official 3M branded box (a huge brown box not retail packaging).
They’re individually packaged in the official sealed wrappers, had lot codes on them and looked to be in good shape. No weird smells either and the elastic and nose pieces seemed fine. No expiration dates unfortunately if that’s super important but the box had a barcode and I suppose you could contact 3M and ask about that lot number.
Interesting, in 2019-2020 there was a pretty severe shortage iirc. Anyway I supposedly have a box of these on order and I hope they arrive. There was a famous story of Ikea having a stash of 60,000 or so masks warehoused from the 2002 SARS-1 outbreak, and donating them to a hospital in 2019 or 2020, and they were still perfectly good.
I have a bunch of cheap KN95 around and I give those out fairly freely. I guess these will be better. The rubber bands keep breaking though.
There was a severe shortage, then everyone basically stopped masking, so the supply that 3M created basically just sat there and this is the end result.
The bands on these are for shit but they’re fantastic for small/medium size heads. Sadly, my bowling ball sized melon is too large and it creates a poor fit. The V-Flex’s are much better IMO.