Millions of online sellers to compete with Amazon in Vietnam
Wednesday, April 4,2018AsemconnectVietnam - Amazon will find it not easy to conquer the Vietnamese market as it will have to compete with millions of people selling products via social networks, especially Facebook, analysts say.
Mai Duong, 27, an officer in Hanoi who earns US$1,000 a month, is a middle-income earner in Vietnam. However, selling goods via Facebook brings her additional income 2-3 times higher.
Hoang Linh, manager of a fashion shop in Hanoi, also said that income from online sale – her extra job – is higher than the monthly pay she gets as a manager.
Duong and Linh are big rivals to e-commerce websites and hold a considerable retail market share.
Nikkei News in a recent article commented that giants in e-commerce such as Amazon and Alibaba should beware of the millions of Vietnamese who sell and buy products via Facebook.
Some people who sell products via social networks can earn up to US$10,000 a month, and the trade has been developing so rapidly that the government is considering taxing the transactions.
Vietnam’s e-commerce market is growing by 25%, and high growth will continue in 2018-2020. It is expected to have a value of US$10 billion in the next four years.
Foreign investment funds and companies have continued to pour money into e-commerce firms.
An analyst in digital marketing said that it won’t be easy for Amazon to conquer the Vietnamese market.
“Individual online sellers are a better choice for many Vietnamese who want to make payments in cash,” he said, adding that payment via banks represents only 10% of total transactions in Vietnam.
Pham Thai Binh from Savills HCM City also said that though the business scale of individual online sellers is modest, the high number of such sellers will generate competitive power.
State officials have also tried to calm down Vietnamese e-commerce firms amid warnings that Amazon and Alibaba would dislodge them from the home market.
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