Flea Market (or Gioi Market) is a market in the center of Hanoi capital with a name that sounds both rustic and a bit of “Gypsy”.
“Anything in the world, just go to Gioi market to have” is a merchant’s catchphrase when referring to the abundance of goods at the market that has existed for a long time in the two wards bordering Dong Nhan and Hue Street. (Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi).
This is a place to trade all kinds of goods, from nails, screws, watch batteries to electronics, refrigeration … in which there are many “toxic” components that are no longer produced. But it is not easy to buy genuine, durable goods at cheap prices in this market. That is why, after half a century of existence, the Flea market (or Gioi market) is still attached with the tag “selling fake goods, get real money”.
The “famous specialty” of Hanoi Flea Market that buyers here more or less has “enjoyed” is buying fake goods at a bargain price.
Many traders do not hesitate to reveal: a not small part of goods in Troi market are counterfeit and poor quality products that are mixed and sold with other items.
According to PV’s research, the market was formed during the French colonial period and was strongly developed in the period 1954 – 1955, because some people who had evacuated to the South had the need to sell their property at home. family.
Since then, Flea market was formed, expanded and developed to this day. Currently, the market is held from about 8 am to 19 pm. Almost all people in Hanoi are so familiar with the name “Troi market” but forget the real name of Flea market, Hoa Binh market.
Forget about the original name, but call it by the name of Flea market partly because here people trade all kinds of items from USB, computer mouse, electronic speakers, to larger items such as auto parts, accessories. motorbike parts, electronic equipment … but they are sold, dried in the sky.
The products at Gioi market are very plentiful and diversified with all kinds of “upper yellow lower bran” so that customers can choose any item. Customers can even buy a ball, an oil lamp, counterfeit products to the most complex of electronic machines and components.Flea Market sells many items from small electrical appliances to auto parts, industrial machines.The stalls in Flea market are located close to There are many items here that seem to be “extinct”.Many people bring goods to the Flea market and sell “in the sky” like this.In many old stalls here there are selling antiques that are not available in Hanoi.Thuong Vang lowered the rice bran, nothing in the Flea market did not have, including … coffins.Many people have come to Flea market to tell each other: This market is not for “faint of heart” customers. Here to buy, the buyer must be discerning, alert, knowledgeable about what to buy in order not to be under price pressure or “tricked into selling fake goods”.Flea market is also a “sticky” market with many messy consumption of stolen and stolen food. That is the reason, many people tell each other that, whoever loses something, needs something (stolen food), just go to Hanoi Flea Market to ask for it to “ransom” or buy it.There was a time when the government wanted to clear the Flea market, and once moved the Troi market to Phung Hung street. However, this market still exists here because the need for exchange really does exist and the area where the market is located has become “familiar land”, not easy to change.Currently, the government increasingly drastically eliminates selling of unknown origin at Flea market. Although there are bad scandals, it is undeniable that this market has attached many consumers in the capital.Currently, the market is changing a lot, becoming more civilized and active; diversified goods and more carefully controlled.Many things seem to be discarded to become “valuable” in the flea market.Hanoi Flea Market was formed from the subsidy period, up to now this is the oldest temporary market in Hanoi still operating, with the age of up to 60 years. To meet the needs of consumers, the market now sells brand new products besides second-hand. Follow Dân trí
