There are really all kinds of wonders in this world, do you believe it? There is an aunt in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, who can actually earn 30,000 yuan a month by selling seawater.
Does this sound a bit bizarre, but it does happen in reality. What is going on? Let’s take a look!
Nguyen Thi Bui, a Vietnamese, lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Speaking of Nguyen Thi Bui's profession, everyone may feel a little strange when they hear it for the first time, because Nguyen Thi Bui actually makes a living by selling sea water, and she also earns a lot of money.
After hearing this, you may have doubts. There is not much sea water, right? You can get as much as you want without spending any money. You can make money by selling sea water. In fact, some people buy air, and it is really not surprising that some people sell sea water.
Nguyen Thi Bei's family lives next to the port. She is a native of Ho Chi Minh City. When she was 17 years old, she met her future husband Lok Nam in Vung Tau City. From then on, the couple lived together. Lok Nam went fishing in the sea near Vung Tau every day, and then his wife Nguyen Thi Bei took a boat to Ho Chi Minh City and was responsible for taking the caught fish to the local seafood market for sale.
At the beginning, Ruan Thi Bei mainly sold shrimps and crabs in the market. In order to keep her shrimps and crabs fresh, Ruan Thi Bei often brought some sea water. Later, when the customers who came to help saw this, they also began to ask to bring sea water home, because some customers opened restaurants, and some customers also had high requirements for fish.
As time went by, more and more people began to request seawater purchased from Nguyen Thi Bei. At that time, they saw that there were business opportunities in selling seawater, and besides shipping costs, seawater cost nothing, so Nguyen Thi Bei and her husband decided to give up selling seafood and start selling seawater instead.
At that time, Nguyen Thi Bui and his wife were the first and only business owners to start selling seawater in Ho Chi Minh City. They had monopolized the local seawater trade for decades and had no competitors. It was not until the past few years that new seawater distribution agents slowly began to emerge.
To this day, the Nguyen family is still the largest seawater dealer in Ho Chi Minh City. Every morning, agents of all sizes gather in front of the Nguyen family to buy seawater from here and sell it outside.
The Ruan couple's seawater business is very marketable. Large seafood restaurants buy seawater from them. In addition, seafood vendors, saltwater fish breeders, and ornamental fish breeding enthusiasts, the seawater business is indeed very marketable.
In the past, Nguyen Thi Bui opened a water station for selling seawater in a community near the canal bridge. At that time, it was the only way for many ships to pass through. However, the community was later demolished, and Nguyen Thi Bui returned home to continue the business.
Nguyen Thi Bei is relatively honest in her business, so everyone comes to her to buy seawater. Every time she pulls more than 200 cubic meters of seawater from Vung Tau in a large truck, it takes 2 days to go back and forth, and it takes 5 days to sell out.
Everyone saw that she chose the long road instead of shortcuts, so they advised her to go to Can Gieu to get seawater. In this way, the cost of transportation can be greatly reduced. However, Nguyen Thi Bui said: "
The seawater in Can Gieu is relatively shallow, the salinity is not enough, and it is also mixed with a lot of water. Because of the mud and sand, she went to Vung Tau to collect water to ensure the quality of the water. "
Nguyen Thi Bei said that her business intention is small profits but quick turnover, and she is surrounded by real neighbors who can't be seen when looking up. She cannot lie to others for fear of being poked in the back.
Don’t underestimate Ruan Thi Bei’s small business of selling sea water. She earns a lot. In Ruan Thi Bei’s shop, sea water is sold at several prices. A 30-liter barrel of sea water is usually sold to street people for 2000 VND (equivalent to about 6 cents in RMB). If you buy 1 cubic meter of sea water, the price is about 70,000 VND (equivalent to about 20.6 yuan in RMB).
However, if it is sold to high-end seafood restaurants or saltwater ornamental fish breeding families, the price can be as high as 250,000 to 300,000 VND per cubic meter (equivalent to approximately RMB 73.7 to 88.5 yuan).
Every week, Nguyen Thi Bai can sell more than 300 cubic meters of seawater. Nguyen Thi Bai's large truck can transport 150 to 200 cubic meters of seawater each time, twice a week on average. Nowadays, more and more people in Ho Chi Minh City are starting to raise fish in large aquariums. Sometimes the demand for seawater in a week can be as high as 10 to 15 cubic meters.
Nguyen Thi Bei said that their family has retained a lot of old customers due to the good reputation they have built up over the years, so the monthly salary is relatively generous. They can earn about 100 million VND (equivalent to about 30,000 yuan in RMB) a month.
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