I saw a laptop on tradestsble but the seller is in the lagos while l am in onitsha, but the seller refuse to send to a person he knows close to my location, insisting that I should made payment first. Please advise me

I know u not a muron that is why u made this post. The seller has proved to u who he is- a scammer. So buy safely. Good luck

I have never used Tradestable but I have used OLXseverally. OLX encourages local buying and selling. LOCAL means in your LOCALITY!!! if someone is looking for a laptop you need to find sellers locally and the site has made that VERY EASY because you can choose your location.

Scammers know that there are alot of GREEDY FOOLS out thre that is why they will tell you to send money before seeing your ridiculously low priced goods! If you are in LAgos they will tell you they are in katsina, if you are in katsina they will tell you thay are in Awka and so their lie dey catch mugus...

The OLX Classified site is extremely usful just like Nairaland there is so much money to be made but some gullible ppl will lose money instead of making it. As a rule of thumb always see goods before paying a single kobo and never go to meet a stranger with a large sum of money SHIKENA!!!

OLX and tradestable are breeding ground for frausdsters and the coy is not really doing much to curb the menace. A new site is out now owned by a Nigerian (www.curtislist.com). Though still new I can perceive they have a plan to make online shopping more credible for buyers and sellers. Curtislist included a customer rating system, a comments and feedback thread for any item listed and a forum discussion board per registered user. With this you can easily blacklist a fraud seller and others will quietly avoid doing business with that person. Just the way amazon.com works. very solid idea.

http://www.curtislist.com