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A Guide To Importation Business 101 by Sanchez01: 11:01pm On Jul 02, 2014
Hello NLers, a friend gave me some e-books and I have decided to share them by posting them here. I have always been a fan of buying online, however, a particular e-book stood out to me; and that particular book is what I want to share now. I believe the article will help both intending online buyers and those who have been there. Here goes smiley:

HOW TO START IMPORTATION BUSINESS IN NIGERIA WITH LITTLE CAPITAL

Course overview: This portable companion is designed to give you a step by step guide on how to start importing from a secret website, at very cheap rate (at retail price) and selling for gain of up to 200%. These handy manual will teach you how to make a successful purchase from the site without an online payment processor like paypal or payza, i.e. paying directly from your bank account, and how navigate around the site to shop for the best bargain goods. On very rare occasion has there been an issue of wrong delivery,or delivery of faulty goods, but if ever happens, the contents of these book will teach you how to get your money back within 4days or make a repurchase with the money from another seller.

This is a simple risk free manual on how to be your own boss and earn a good living.

INTRODUCTION TO E-COMMERCE.
Commerce is a process of buying and selling of goods or product. Meanwhile e-commerce means electronic-commerce that is buying and selling via internet whereby both parties (buyer/seller) transact with necessary mode of payment in form of any accepted mode e.g. credit/debit card, money transfer, bank transfer, E-currencies and others.
Nigerians are somehow being sceptical to make viable transaction online in the areas of E-commerce, due to questions like:

• “How will I pay for the goods/products?”
• “Is the manufacturer/seller not going to defraud/scam me after he/she receive the
payment”
• “How I my going to get products delivered to me”

After this write up, you’ll be able to transact online in the area of e-commerce and get your brand new mini laptop cheaply for below N16, 000 from the manufacturers.

E-commerce Web Portals: It is an online platform to access and assess the products/ goods being display or advertise by the seller, supplier, producer, manufacturer for the purpose of selling the product to the online populace/users and get the products delivered to their address within stipulated days after the payment being contributed or received.
Note: There are various e-commerce platform/web portals but there are also web portals that scammers are in high rate

ALIEXPRESS
This is one of the safest e-commerce platform/web portals that has 95% security for transaction and offers cheap and affordable products. Aliexpress is an e-commerce organization base in mainland in Asia countries. It serves as the middlemen between the buyer (you) and the seller
(manufacturer/seller) in order to maintain clean transactions from both parties. It protects the buyer (you) not to be scam/defraud by the supplier (seller) as well as the buyer not to make fake payment to order or buy the products.

PRACTICAL TERMS: Aliexpress render the platform for the buyers and sellers to meets and carry out transaction and on a clean record and it performs this by enable displaying the products in their platforms for a certain period of time, the buyers search the products, then view the necessary product details, click on BUY NOW, input your address you want the product to be delivered to and make payment, then instruct the seller to send the product delivered to your address and then after the product is up to your satisfaction and up to the details specified, you can then release the payment to the seller from the aliexpress platform for as low as one unit ranging from consumer product to industrial products e.g. mobile phones, electronics, laptops, wears, bags, and others.

Step-By-Step On How To Get Cheap Products

Step1: Visit: log on to www.aliexpress.com
You may browse through the site.
Step2: Register to become member by clicking Join Free. It’s free
step3: search and locate the products you want to buy/order.
1) You can search the product by using search bar on top of the aliexpress.com by just typing the products name and click on search e.g. laptop, DVD, hard drive, flash drive, laptop battery e.g.
2) You can also search by using left hand side categories board which ranges from A-Z. After search and going through various product you come across under your key word product search e.g. laptop, check the product details of it is up to your own interest or satisfaction, if is not up to your satisfaction, keep searching.

HOW TO SEARCH FOR PRODUCTS.

Searches of product from aliexpress can be done either by countries, manufacturer, Date, price, shipping. You can search accordingly by countries in terms of products origin that is the product supplier or manufacturer You can search by duties- that is you can use this tab which is almost at the top under Best Match tan by to date remaining for the products to display. You can also search the product by using price categorization either from lowest price first or highest price.
Which the supplier /manufacturer of the product can deliver the product to you in either form being chosen by paid or free shipping process for product delivery.

Paid shipping: By picking the product, the aliexpress server will automatically calculate the shipping cost to your countries and add it with the product cost, then the total cost will be the amount to be paid.
Free shipping - By picking product with free shipping features even by simply scroll down to the extreme down page of the website you will notice FREE SHIPPING categories, it may takes 5-8days time to get the products delivered to you wherever you are, it is secured and it is highly preferable in order to reduce the total cost of the products.
Step 4: make payment for the products you pick.
The only form of payment that is accepted at aliexpress is master card or Visa Card through a secure payment processor which is referred to as escrow Make sure that the fund in your master/visa card is enough to pay for the total cost of a product or else your order will not take effect.
You can simply make the order for a product you pick and after consider the cost or total cost then click Buy Now then follow the processes to order the products.

Step 5: make the order/Buy New
By clicking on Buy-Now, input your real and functioning house or office address that is the Address the UPS, DHL, or any other courier that is going to deliver the product will possess in their database and you’ll get it deliver to you ASAP.
Make payment by inputting your master card/Visa card details- pin, CCV, card no and other details then be expecting your product.
Processing time: it is the time that is meant for the seller, supplier, and producer to package the product and take it to the courier service you pick at initial stage which ranges from 3-5 days.

Delivery time: it is time meant for the transport company or courier company you chose to deliver the product to your address. It depends on the courier company which could be ranged from 3-7 days as the delivery period and it will get to town here in Nigeria, your house address.
Transport companies are UPS, FEDEX, EMS, DHL, TNT and others that enable door to doordelivery of a product worldwide within 3-7 days ultimatum.

Why Aliexpress?
Aliexpress only enables you to release the payment to the seller after you have received the product, then confirm it status if it is equal to the details or configuration the seller indicate online and you are satisfy, then you can now release the payment to the seller from aliexpress platform as a result of their platform through this measure.

TRACKING:
The seller/supplier will release or send the tracking code to your email or aliexpress account and other details to clear the goods from the courier as the owner or buyer in which you can use the code to know and understand the status of the product whereabout, by imputing the tracking code into the particular courier company website.

How to Hold the Products
Note: If at a certain period you are interested in certain product, but you have not yet decided to buy or order it, just log in as a member with your username and password and click Add to Cart, then the products will be store in your account for future references.

2 OPTIONS ON HOW TO BUY ONLINE
(1) From Nigeria Bank after opening or operating International bank account or domiciliary account which is operated in dollars or other foreign currencies e.g. Access bank, First bank, GTBank and others. But it is stressful to get these kind of account open, but it is also good and within few weeks or months of operating the account, you will be given master/visa card.
(2)Using the service of daily profit tutorials ‘BUY 4 ME’ which help Nigerians to make payment online. For example after you have seen the laptop you want to buy at aliexpress just copy link page totally and contact them and they will pay on your behalf and you get the products deliver to your own address.

How to Make millions from this laptop business.
Option 1: it is by simply using your own cash to buy laptop from aliexpress at low or cheap prices and sell it for higher prices for profit as sooner as possible e.g. at some strategic places even without shops example of places are campuses, offices or civil servants, local government due to the fairness in price of the product you are selling to them
Option 2: it simply by letting the people trust you and they will give you the cash down and you order on their own behalf whereby the source to compensate your effort is by service charge which can be like 25% of the product value or cost. Even you can start with this process without much start up cash to invest in buying and selling.
HOW TO DISPUTE ORDER
This option is rarely used due to the save system that has been put in place by the site to ensure that you get exactly what you asked for, but if for any reason you need to ask for a refund then you press the dispute order button.


Conclusion
This piece of information is useless if you don’t put to practice all that you have learnt from this book. Endeavour to take a positive step and you will be glad you did. It has worked for others, your cant be an exception.
See you at the top.



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