Shocked: Vietnamese broom costs 2.6 million VND on Amazon Japan
The broom you use to sweep the house every day costs only 30-40 thousand VND in Vietnam but costs up to 2.6 million VND on Amazon Japan.
Recently, the online community has been buzzing about the price of a familiar bamboo mat in every Vietnamese family, but it has an "astronomical" price when it is being sold on Amazon abroad.
Specifically, a Vietnamese girl living in Japan tried to search Amazon for a broom, also known as a Vietnamese cotton grass broom. The search results showed that this "rustic" broom was sold for 12,000 Japanese Yen, equivalent to nearly 2.6 million VND.
In Vietnam, a broom is sold for about 30 - 40 thousand VND. Thus, the price of a broom has increased nearly 80 times.
The same broom, if you look it up on Amazon in the US, will cost about 18 USD, equivalent to nearly 400 thousand VND, meaning the value has increased 10 times.
Faced with this huge price difference, many netizens humorously commented, affirming that they would switch to selling brooms and indeed getting rich is not difficult.
In fact, common and familiar products are sometimes taken for granted in Vietnam, specifically:lBanana leaves on Amazon Japan also cost 500k/leaf,Or Cao Sao Vang is sold at a very different price on foreign shopping websites.
Grass cotton brooms are also known by many other names such as thatch brooms and sedge brooms. The material used to make brooms is cotton from the unflowered thatch tree, dried and woven into a fan shape. The lifespan of each broom is from 3-5 months.