I Interviewed 3 Pure Water Sellers In Port harcourt / Aba Expressway, And According To Them: Sometimes, It Takes About 6 Hours To Sell 20 Sachets Of Water Which Amounts To A Total Of N200 (1Dollar). From The N200, The Profit Is Only About N40 As The Pure. Water Sellers Have To Pay The Wholesalers Their Money Back As Well As Cover The Price For Ice Block Which Was Used To Cool The Water. The Long And Short Of It Is That Some Of Them Make Only N40 In 6 Hours Of Hustling Under The Hot Sun, Risking Their Lives On Major Express Roads And Always At The Mercy Of The Environmental Protection Board Who Whip
Them With Cane When Caught; Burst Their Water Sachets To The Ground And Fine Them N5,000. As If That Isn't Bad Enough, When Passengers And Drivers Reach The Traffic Stops, They Prefer To Dash N100, N200 Or Even N500 To Beggars And Fake Sufferers Who Sometimes Make About N1,500 A Day Doing Nothing But Begging, Leaving Them Richer, Luckier And Safer Than The Pure Water Sellers Who Are Young Entrepreneurs Serving The Larger Community With Their Trade, And Trying To
Make Ends Meet. So When Next You Are At A Traffic Stop, Please:
1. Dash The Pure Water Seller Instead

2. Buy Pure Water To Patronise Them And If The Change Is (N10, Or Even N20, You Can Leave It With Them)

3. Say Something Nice To Them. Greet Them, Encourage Them.

4. Slow Down, Don't Knock Them Down.

5. Even If You Wont Buy The Pure Water, If They Ask You To Buy, Rather Than Ignoring Them And Facing Front As If They Are Not Humans, You Can Look At Them, Smile And
Say "Thank You"

Kudos. This should be on Front Page

and where I am, people sell more than 10 bags in a day especially during dry season with a profit of #70-#110 per bag.

Op wait let me call him
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ikbnice:
and where I am, people sell more than 10 bags in a day especially during dry season with a profit of #70-#110 per bag.

true talk

ikbnice:
and where I am, people sell more than 10 bags in a day especially during dry season with a profit of #70-#110 per bag.

I doubt anyone makes upto #110 /bag at this present dispensation of inflated prices, #70 could be termed realistic after deducting cost price (ice block and bag cost), and even at that, They could only make at most #700-#800 after the day's sales. I hail them, youngHustlers

#700 of today is an equivalent of #400 of yesterday = Depreciation, meaning, this guys are now making less in this harsh economy

Op is right, saying 'thank you' when not buying and leaving them with little change(money) not only encourages them, it's definitely an act of humanity.

Abidex35:


I doubt anyone makes upto #110 /bag at this present dispensation of inflated prices, #70 could be termed realistic after deducting cost price (ice block and bag cost), and even at that, They could only make at most #700-#800 after the day's sales. I hail them, youngHustlers

#700 of today is an equivalent of #400 of yesterday = Depreciation, meaning, this guys are now making less in this harsh economy

Op is right, saying 'thank you' when not buying and leaving them with little change(money) not only encourages them, it's definitely an act of humanity.

A bag is sold btwn #80 and #100, but store owners sell it for hawkers at #120-#130 per bag 'cuz it is cold. Hawkers are free to exchange there satchet water if it gets hot before selling it and also the ones remaining will be returned to the store.
Hawkers can start this business with no capital, just a known guarantor and the satchet water will be given out on credit. It's brisk business where I am and people have taken it up on a large scale.

This one na lie o. Well

Hmmmmmm

lies people tell . makes the devil fear. OP your write up is either false. because 1bag is 120 naira. if you buy directly from the manufacturer you get 5bags at 500 naira.. hence 20 sachets will go for 200 naira. amounting to a gain on 100 naira or 80 naira at most. most times the water is refrigerated so the sellers dont even need to get iceblocks. and in less than 30mins its all gone. in a day u make over 2k plus from sales. so what are you saying?. pls am not a pure water seller o. poster below me is a phooooooooolish purre water hawker

TO THE MAN ABOVE ME

Na lie abeg

N200 now is actually half a dollar not a full dollar.

LATE SAM LOCO EFE - poverty is nt only a disease but also a climax

when tyms are hard!

6 hours to sell 20 sachets??
The hawker must be crippled

Its a fat lie

Or maybe he sells in the bush.

TO BUHARI & ALL HIS CHANGE MANTRA DULLARDS

Voy:
I Interviewed 3 Pure Water Sellers In Port harcourt / Aba Expressway, And According To Them: Sometimes, It Takes About 6 Hours To Sell 20 Sachets Of Water Which Amounts To A Total Of N200 (1Dollar). From The N200, The Profit Is Only About N40 As The Pure. Water Sellers Have To Pay The Wholesalers Their Money Back As Well As Cover The Price For Ice Block Which Was Used To Cool The Water. The Long And Short Of It Is That Some Of Them Make Only N40 In 6 Hours Of Hustling Under The Hot Sun, Risking Their Lives On Major Express Roads And Always At The Mercy Of The Environmental Protection Board Who Whip
Them With Cane When Caught; Burst Their Water Sachets To The Ground And Fine Them N5,000. As If That Isn't Bad Enough, When Passengers And Drivers Reach The Traffic Stops, They Prefer To Dash N100, N200 Or Even N500 To Beggars And Fake Sufferers Who Sometimes Make About N1,500 A Day Doing Nothing But Begging, Leaving Them Richer, Luckier And Safer Than The Pure Water Sellers Who Are Young Entrepreneurs Serving The Larger Community With Their Trade, And Trying To
Make Ends Meet. So When Next You Are At A Traffic Stop, Please:
1. Dash The Pure Water Seller Instead

2. Buy Pure Water To Patronise Them And If The Change Is (N10, Or Even N20, You Can Leave It With Them)

3. Say Something Nice To Them. Greet Them, Encourage Them.

4. Slow Down, Don't Knock Them Down.

5. Even If You Wont Buy The Pure Water, If They Ask You To Buy, Rather Than Ignoring Them And Facing Front As If They Are Not Humans, You Can Look At Them, Smile And
Say "Thank You"

I agreed with you...
but Most Nigerians are heartless
....am sorry to say that but that is the truth......

6hours to sell a bag of pure water...
but only 40 seconds to loot 100billion.
and you think this wicked world is fair to everyone.
I don't agree to it.

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You just made a lot of sense. Thanks for this write-up,those people do a lot just to make an honest living. It's not much,but it's something.

We know you have the right to lie but please use brain take lie.

Bless our hustle

Anything a man does to survive apart from stealing is good and should be encouraged.

Voy:
I Interviewed 3 Pure Water Sellers In Port harcourt / Aba Expressway, And According To Them: Sometimes, It Takes About 6 Hours To Sell 20 Sachets Of Water Which Amounts To A Total Of N200 (1Dollar). From The N200, The Profit Is Only About N40 As The Pure. Water Sellers Have To Pay The Wholesalers Their Money Back As Well As Cover The Price For Ice Block Which Was Used To Cool The Water. The Long And Short Of It Is That Some Of Them Make Only N40 In 6 Hours Of Hustling Under The Hot Sun, Risking Their Lives On Major Express Roads And Always At The Mercy Of The Environmental Protection Board Who Whip
Them With Cane When Caught; Burst Their Water Sachets To The Ground And Fine Them N5,000. As If That Isn't Bad Enough, When Passengers And Drivers Reach The Traffic Stops, They Prefer To Dash N100, N200 Or Even N500 To Beggars And Fake Sufferers Who Sometimes Make About N1,500 A Day Doing Nothing But Begging, Leaving Them Richer, Luckier And Safer Than The Pure Water Sellers Who Are Young Entrepreneurs Serving The Larger Community With Their Trade, And Trying To
Make Ends Meet. So When Next You Are At A Traffic Stop, Please:
1. Dash The Pure Water Seller Instead

2. Buy Pure Water To Patronise Them And If The Change Is (N10, Or Even N20, You Can Leave It With Them)

3. Say Something Nice To Them. Greet Them, Encourage Them.

4. Slow Down, Don't Knock Them Down.

5. Even If You Wont Buy The Pure Water, If They Ask You To Buy, Rather Than Ignoring Them And Facing Front As If They Are Not Humans, You Can Look At Them, Smile And
Say "Thank You"

I know what you are trying to do, and I appreciate you for that. However, stop framing pure water sellers as victims who need our pity, they are hard working Nigerians who have chosen to toe the path of dignity in labour rather than criminality. My late mother (like many mothers out there) hawked soft drinks in fuel stations and with it sent me and my siblings to school, I also hawked during holidays...my story is different today (to the glory of God!). They are not victims to be pitied, they are heroes to be celebrated!

Bless our hustle

izzou:
6 hours to sell 20 sachets??
The hawker must be crippled
Its a fat lie
Or maybe he sells in the bush.

and you don sell before?

It either they lied to you or that was a bad day or you are just exaggerating if not I am very sure they make more money.
In a sunny day maybe around a stadium or rally, it doesn't take them up to 15minutes to sell 20sachets. People rush their water, the business is like every other one, it has a particular period they sell well.
And about giving to them, haven't you seen a pure seller that ran away with people's change? Most of them are criminals that just use that to cover up. What do they do at night?
I am not saying there are no good ones but we should stop making people feel bad cos they didn't leave their change with sellers.