SLC26-W3 | Street Business Diaries: Street Cobbler, Mobile Accessories or Street Clothes."

Hello friends

What type of daily necessities business is most demand in your area? (Street Cobbler, Mobile Accessories or Street Clothes etc.)

In my area all of the three businesses street cobbler, mobile Accessories and street clothes, are present. But the most common that is most demanded is Phone Accessories.

Almost every one uses phone therefore there is need for phone accessories like ear pieces , charger, batteries, screen guide, ear pod, phone pouch etc.

phone accessories

This is why the business of phone accessories strive very well because there is always a need to get accessories at every point. If your charger is not bad, you will need ear phones or ear piece or screen bad and the rest, so this business is not only lucrative but also sustainable.

Phone Accessories are important because they help us use our phones better. For instance our phone pouch, it protects our phone from cracks Incase it falls down and so on.

Have you bought these yourself or visited them? Show pictures + videos and show their prices

Oh yeah I have bought phone accessories many times. Infact I have a customer for my phone accessories. Recently when I got a new phone, I needed to put screen guide and pouch on it so I went to my customer to get it.

The name of my phone accessories customer is Ben but we call him oga Ben Accessories. He deals on phone Accessories such as Phone screen guide, phone chargers, ear piece and eat pods, phone pouch of all kinds of phones.

Oga Ben Accessories street shop

Oga Ben phone Accessories street shop is located in the city of Lagos opposite University of Lagos. Most of his customers are university of Lagos students while other of his customers are passengers who either wants to board a bus or came down from a bus because a bus bustop is located very close to his shop too.

Oga Ben has been in this business for the past 3years now. When I spoke with him, I realized he came all the way from his village to the city just to make ends meet and a friend finally introduced his to that business. According to him he says he makes good sales every day even though there are many competitors around him.

	phone chargers sold at Oga Ben shop

Charger type	Prices in Naira	Price in steem
Type C Original charger	6000	30 steem
Type C not so original	2500	12.5 steem
Normal original charger	4500	22.5 Steem
Normal charger but not so original	2000	10 steem

	phone pouches

Type of phone pouch	Price in Naira	Price in Steem
Rubber pouch	2000	10 steem
Steel or silicon pouch	4000	20 Steem
I phone pouch	6000	30 steem

	Ear piece sold at Bens shop

Ear piece type	Price in Naira	Price in steem
Fancy ear piece	3000	15 steem
Normal earpiece	1500	7.5 steem
Fancy Ear pod	10000	50 steem
Normal Ear pod	5000	25 steem

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Other items	Prices in Naira	Prices in steem
Original Screen Guide	2500	12.5 steem
Normal screen guide	1000-1500	5 steem- 7.5 steem
Car phone charger	8000	40 steem

What is the quality of these products? Also, if you have any experience with how long they last, please tell me

These products such phone pouch , ear piece, screen guide are quality depending on their originality that is why their prices are different. Oga Ben is an honest business man so when a customer shows up in his shop to buy items he always tells them to buy the original one and he tells you the price but when you can't afford the price of the original, he gives you the normal one.

His original products can last longer than just normal. For example his original charger can last for as high as 5 years. But his normal charger may last for 2weeks - 3 months.

Last year I bought a charger from him that wasn't original for 2000 naira(10 steem) because at that time I didn't have so much cash on me, my phone was down and I needed to charge it urgently because I gave a friend my charger.

After buying this charger, it only lasted for 3 weeks and it developed fault. At first It started heating too much anytime it's charging my phone, then suddenly it stopped charging my phone.

When I went back to get the original one from him I told him what happened and he told me the durability of non original charger is not guaranteed. I still have the original charger in my house right now, it's still working after a year.

So the quality of all the products oga Ben sells is dependent on their price and also the maintenance given by the user of the products.

How do people behave towards street vendors? (sympathetic, ignoring, bargaining etc.)

The way people behave towards street vendors can really be funny at times. Many people I have seen including my self have the attitude of bargaining.

For instance when I went to Oga bens shop, a customer came to fix his phone screen guide, he was told that the price of the original Screen Guide was 2500 naira(12.5 steem), the first reaction of the customer was to scream.

The customer after scream said Oga I will buy it for 1000 naira(5 steem). I just stood there in shock. Oga Bens and his customer dragged the price for almost 10 minutes and finally the customer insisted it should be sold for 2000 naira(12 steem).

When oga Ben refused, the customer walked away without buying. But the same customer will enter into a well finished phone accessories shop that operates like a supermarket or mall and buy the same products higher without questions.

Many people feel because it is a street vendor it should not be expensive, it should be so cheap. But guess what? Street vendors even buy their products at a more expensive price than those in big malls and supermarkets because they buy in smaller quantities.

I know that in business, bargaining is good but sometimes we should be considerate too especially with street vendors because they go through a lot to get the products to us.

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