sultaan:

I don't think its a preorder mess, but the autosection mess.

All this will only get worse until it finally implodes; unregulated, unsecured marketplace based on trust.

sultaan:

I don't think its a preorder mess, but the autosection mess.
A couple of years back this thread was mainly auto discussion with few listings, then the discussions slowed to a trickle with more listings.

We complained and the best Mod could do was to create all discussion thread(huge mistake), basically meaning if you have anything to discuss go to this thread, to sellers section is all yours.

If anyone opens this section at anytime the first page is a bump by 3 sellers(reminds me of the old Oshodi sidewalk)

When larryshow4 bumps 4 posts on Cotonou cars, femmy2010, bumps another 3 on Cotonou deals,Adelambi with unending testimony from unending buyers. Soon someone will set up e-check point to collect 'owoile' and finally turn this place into autoshodi section.
If someone said this section will turn to this mess we have 2 yrs ago I would have said never, but we are only Nigerians [size=5pt]sorry for the name calling  [/size]

All this will only get worse until it finally implodes; unregulated, unsecured marketplace based on trust.

Bobajo:

Mobile phones and the internet!!! What will it not cause? Let me add my own experience this last week. I was looking to buy a 2001 4runner, which to my amazement is not readily available in the market. I said okay, let me do the alternative, a Pathfinder. So to Nairaland i turn, and i saw this splendid wine colored one listed by EMESHOT. I scheduled an inspection and drove from Lekki to Ajao Estate, wife and son in tow - a bloody waste of time considering that i charge my services per hour (i am a corporate lawyer, see). This fellow, this EMESHOT fellow, after keeping me waiting for nearly 45 minutes; seated in my car - he had no office, even though he had represented to me that his office is somewhere in that vicinity - surfaced from God knows where with another fellow and they both came up with this story of how the car had been moved to Apapa that morning. They didn't even know where the car was supposedly moved to in Apapa, just that it had been moved. I dont know what their game was, but i am too street wise to play along. I told both of them, very nicely - you never know what the game is so it's better to be nice - to get lost. I cut my losses and drove back to my office in VGC.

The moral of this story:
1. I can never part with money for what i can't physically see and touch, at least not to somebody i haven't known for a while. And i am talking known as in his residence, wife, kids etc. I ADVICE EVERYBODY ON NAIRALAND TO DO SAME. (Pre order my foot)

2. We all have a duty of care to each other (all Nairalanders) to quickly raise an alert to any scam and scammer(s); to name and shame, and ensure other unsuspecting Nairalanders dont fall into the hands of these idiots and nuisances.

Jafour:

@jadefour20
You got it wrong. Busy_body was not referring to you. She knows my contribution as a honest dealer on thorny issues in the past on nairaland was fair and straight. Anyway, I did not contribute to the post because someone along the line said what I needed to say, so I decided to keep mute and read other interesting contributions.

In case you have any score to settle with busy_body, look for a better way of doing it rather than arrogating someone's username with yours.

George_D:

and the tango goes on and on while our scammer smiles all the way to the bank!

At this public forum,advertisers should submit their pictures, verifiable address of business premises, so as to make fraudsters traceable,be caught and punished.
This forum has being a great source of info and should be protected for generations.
Kudos to Seun for this great job.

mastro:


Its a public free forum so by it's very nature this can't happen, if Seun decided to impliment this and recover his costs by charging N200 per ad, 99% of the traders would disappear.

Emperoh:

Hmmm
SO this thing is still raging?

Well, we all should be alert and do our due diligence before committing
I am just saddened that this negative image will affect honest ones like me.
Nevertheless, God for us all and happy independence to everyone!!!

Busy_body:


Raging or died down and swept under the carpet, to the extent that Fred Oyeniks aka PTconsult the thief now has the nerve and the audacity to boldly come out to declare his innocence by distancing himself from the PTconsult user ID due to his being allowed to get away scotfree Sad

On a lighter note, happy belated inependence day to you too boo Miss you pumpkin, would you believe i am still outta town gallivanting round the universe for bigger fishes to fund my [s]expensive taste in life for designer clobbers[/s] charity NGO's of course

Miss you soooooo much and hope to be with you for Christmas, even if it is only for a day Stay away from those jezebels and daughters of eve, if you don't want me to commit murder Loff you mon darlink

ikamo:

Nairalanders be very careful of pre-order- See the picture below
It is the pix of the boy behind gatewayautoinc on nairalist,
my money is hanging with him but I thank God he was caught this afternoon and I hope he will pay for all his evil deals.