Striving to have a memorable Valentine Day, Trung, a civil engineer in Ha Dong district has ordered a pair of simcards for him and his fiancé. Trung said that over the last five years, the couple mostly gave each other roses and chocolate, but he wants to make a breakthrough this year.
The requirements Trung has set prove to be very complicated. The twin simcards must have the suffixes “332007” to mark the day the two officially loved each other. The simcards must have 10 numerals and they must be issued by one of the three biggest mobile networks (VinaPhone, MobiFone or Viettel).
“Chocolate and roses are the symbol of the love. However, I want a special gift this year. The simcards would help connect us, especially if they have nearly the same numerals,” Trung said.
He has revealed that in order to have the special gift, Trung has to spent a lot of money. The simcard providers, who Trung has contacted, all have asked for the high prices of no less than five million dong. Trung has to wait 5-7 days to get the things he ordered.
Though Hau, a small merchant at the Dong Xuan Market, does not set too strict requirements for the twin simcards, she still had t spend nearly 10 million dong. Two weeks after ordering, she received a pair of simcards with the numbers 09xxx36123 and 09xxx36456, in which the numerals in the middle are exactly the same, while the three last numerals are also special “123” and “456”.
Hau said that the simcard with “456” suffix was priced at nearly 5 million dong, while the one with “123” was priced at less than 2 million dong, if she bought it separately. However, in order to get the twin simcards which satisfy her requirements, Hau had to pay 8.5 million dong.
“The seller said that it is always very difficult to find the simcards which match each other,” Hau said. “Therefore, the twin simcards are always very expensive.”
According to Hung, who has five year experience in simcard trading, the tendency of using twin cards has existed over the last three years. Valentine Day is the best business time for him.
In general, the buyers want the simcards which comprise nearly the same numerals, and only one numeral could be different. For example, 86.6789 and 68.6789.
Also according to Hung, there are two types of twin cards with big price differences. The simcards of big mobile networks, or the twin cars with the numerals significant to buyers or lucky numbers as thought by orient people, are always very expensive. Meanwhile, the simcards of small mobile networks can be found more easily. Especially, the simcards of the new networks are very cheap, just hundreds of thousands of dong per a couple.
As lovers have the high demand of talking with each other through phones, simcard traders try to provide the simcards with big accounts, or the simcards which allow making free calls for less than 10 minutes. As the simcards are being hunted by couples, they would be 100,000-250,000 dong more expensive.
Simcard trading has become a profitable business. Bao, the owner of a simcard on Kim Ma Street in Hanoi, said that he has sold two couples of simcards since the Tet holiday finished, while he needs to fulfill three more orders.
Source: VnExpress
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