The Official Nairaland Tech Market Referral Thread

Guys,
We've been buying goods from these merchants here for a while, and some of us have good stories, while some may have bad stories. So how do we tell the good traders from the scammers?
Simple. We copy Ebay's rep system. For each successful transaction you accomplish here, please Rep the trader abd announce it here, so others know who to buy from. We all win that way.

Conversely, if you get a raw deal, by all means let's hear about it here so we know who to avoid. 

i resently bought a laptop from Brume which was shipped from USA, and at a very affordable price. i'm so much proud that i met someone like him in nairaland, with good business, and good promise kept. i so much believe in product from abroad, than buying it in nigeria, because of mass production. Brume keep doing it

@AnthoniO
A system like this isn't perfect, but it's a useful check against fraud.
We've had so few referrals and rep posts posted here, so it's hard to guage how many purchases are actually being completed in this thread. I should hope that people report cases of fraud so we can all learn from any such ugly incident.

Let's hope your comment hasnt given some people bright ideas!

PS: Would it be any better if this topic were to be renamed : The Official Nairaland Tech Market Seller Referral/Reputation Thread?
Because the main thing isn't about referring, it's about reputation of honesty (kind of like ebay's reputation system).

 @ texazzpete
when it comes to fraud,
the vulture is a patient bird

I want to post a referral for BRUME2020
I bought a HP DV 6605US laptop from him. The goods arrived sealed from factory and intact. Everything was as listed on the post, remote control, earbuds etc
To sum it all, the guy is clean and I feel comfortable doing business with him.

Thanks Brume
Thanks all.

Or better still called FEEDBACK COMMENTS THREAD

Can be postive or negative feedback.

this thread has been about commendations, well i'm about to add something different - a CAVEAT (warning)

the name of the company is orient, . their address is 12 ola ayeni street computer village.(2nd floor) sometime last year, an oga in my department bought an auctioned ,scrapped laptop. as the departmental 'computer guru', i was asked to get all its issues fixed. the main issues turned out to be power supply to the board, and a dead battery. the PSU was fixed at kavex(another laptop seller in pc village. however, they didn't have the battery, i was referred to orient. they didn't actually have a spare battery, they simply pillaged one from one of their systems. no problem, as the battery was working fine. that was my first real business with them.

sometime last  year, i bought a new laptop with a 160gb hard drive. i installed vista on a second partition, so i was dual booting vista and xp. unfortunately the vista partition was too big, and i couldn't resize, so  i decided to buy a bigger hard drive. i confirmed from the net that there are now 250gb laptop hard drives. i called orient. he gave me the bull you sometimes hear - no such thing as 250gb laptop hard drive, but i have 160gb.like so many computer gurus in pc village, he was either ignorant or being devious

none of the above is really the issue. the real story starts now. i bought an 80gb external hard drive from kavex computers two years ago. the drive holds my music, and current versions of the software i use. there is only 5gb of space left on the drive, so i decided to buy a new drive, and move either the music or the software to it. i get to orient. yes, they have external hard drives. 80gb, 120gb . they give me the prices. i quickly check kavex, who have 160gb, but too costly . back to orient.(incidetally, oga is not around, but i'm in contact with him via phone). thats when it turns out that the hard drives are actually 'used'. but they have some 'brand new' drives. 80gb and a 120gb. the 120gb drive is in an 'opened' foil. what they usually tell you is that they open to confirm that it is actually new (from their own seller)  etc. no problem. they put the drive into a case, and hook it up to a system. the guy doing this assumes i'm the usual noob customer,  so hes explaining as he goes along ( forming pc guru) , the drive is installing etc, etc. i notice that the indicator led is red for an abnormally long time. finally, the drive shows in my computer as f:. we click on it, and explorer crashes. this happens twice.then i notice a second drive g(warehouse ) has appeared. i open this drive, and find its full of documents.

something is wrong here - there's no other drive attached to the system. so i go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management/storage/disk management

then i find that 1. the 'brand new' drive is actally partitioned into 2 partitions, g and f
2. partition(F) is unformatted(basic), which explains the crashes when we tried to access it.
3.the other g:(warehouse) is formatted, and has someone's documents.

i call their oga, who gives me some more story about the drive being brand new, the foil only opened so they can 'test' it.on the other hand, his boys there are saying we should renegotiate a tokunbo price. me,  i ask if there are any other 120gb drives. sorry, no. i leave.

perhaps its all just miscommunication, however, I'll recommend that anyone doing business with orient had better know his/her computers,  or make sure he/she has a guide with him who does know computers. if i'd not checked the drive, or if they'd been just a little smarter( how long can it take you to format a disk, anyway?) i'd have bought it.

i actually had an argument with one of my colleagues in the office about this; so many people are afraid of pc village. to tell the truth, if you aren't tech savvy, you should be. however, not all of the vendors are  crooked/incompetent. sadly, even the so called big names can't really be trusted. if you ever take the time to read the back of pc outlet's receipts, you find some disclaimers. ( something to the effect that a faulty item will be replaced by the manufacturer and not by pc outlet- so what happens if my creative earphones fail, since creative has no offices in nigeria?) even lg. i bought a home theater system from their head office (fouani) in december last year. at most electronics shops, they only test TVs, so they didn't test the system. however, the box was looking very battered, so i insisted they open it, and lo and behold, a used system was inside! if i'd not checked and taken it home. . .i'm sure they would have refused to take it back , especially when you consider the fact that they didn't even take the serial numbers of the stuff they sold. nigeria. . .

anyway, in summary, buy from orient at your own risk.

i have had a series of deals with brume, he is good example, keeps to his words and a serious business person. Thumbs up

hayprof, expatiate

hayprof,. . . . . . . . .explain in details

Could someone help me out with a list of computer distributors in Nigeria and their contact details, any information would be helpfull,  Thanks !

I hear u.

Wow, i got here and saw many of the recommendations for Brume!  That's cool. I just got my BRAND NEW dv9700 delivered to me today and i must say i was impressed . I was a little dubious about interacting with someone i'd never met, but i wasn't disappointed! He was also every nice about the price. 
Keep up the good work!!!!!!

so brume exists, really i myt have 9 accounts saying the same thing about someone, do not be deceived, if uve never really met him, then forget it, don't be scammed, or check with d admin dude

Brume ,Brume whoever and wherever you are please contact me for a business deal.I hope i will be able to recommend you like the rest guys


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