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How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by Nobody: 5:09pm On Apr 30, 2017
Jiji and Olx can be called a free market where the good, the bad and the ugly come to sell.
let me explain: The good are those willing to sell good products at a good price, the bad are those willing to sell fake products and the ugly are those willing to sell nothing but make money from unsuspecting buyers; they achieve this by posting products at a cheap price thereby luring the buyer with their cheap price and when you click on buy or call them, they will be formal with everything and request you pay them for the delivery ****NEVER PAY FOR DELIVERY*****
GO BY THE RULES BELOW AND GET THE BEST PRODUCT
Don’t buy a product that is too cheap, its either fake or the seller is an ugly one ****N.B few desperate sellers might deside to sell cheap***
Don’t buy if the seller is not sure of what he is selling e.g in the description box, you see an ipad with 4gb ram(impossible for now) or a different phone model on the display picture and a different model on the description.
Tell the seller to tell you the 7 th and 8 th digit of the phones imei number, tell him to dial *#06# to see the number, if the 7 th and 8 th digits are “1 and 3”, please don’t buy the phone, its assembled in Azerbaiijan and its fake. If its “0,2 0r 2,0“,it means the phone is assembled in Emirates which is very poor quality.. 0,5 or 5,0 is good. click this link to see more IMEI CODES .
Make sure you are buying the phone at the market price, confirm from other sellers or visit my youtubechannel to know the market price of various phones both new and used phones.
Tell the seller to meet you in an open place like a market or a busy place so that you can test the phone.
Confirm that every part is working before paying, insert your sim in the phone and browse for about 15 minutes to know if the phone gets hot easily and the battery capacity.
Switch the phone on and off many times to see if the battery drops everytime its restarted, if the battery goes down every time its restarted then you should ask for another battery or a compensation for the battery.
Don’t forget to test the camera,mouthpiece, speaker, headphone jack, sim and memory slot , charging port and also the virtual keyboard to make sure the screen is okay.
Finally when you want to pay for the phone, make sure you are in an open place but not too open; lets say a secure place.
watch on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7ms8KO1zE
www.whittechblog.

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Re: How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by Nobody: 6:41pm On Apr 30, 2017
Awesome/useful info!
Re: How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by firstclassmumu: 7:47pm On Apr 30, 2017
Thank you
Re: How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by Marksule(m): 8:06pm On Apr 30, 2017
Nice info
Re: How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by Nobody: 9:20pm On Apr 30, 2017
you can visit www.whittechblog. for more
Re: How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by henrixx(m): 7:45am On May 01, 2017
olx is more disciplined than Jiji.. olx rules it's stated that if you price your phone too expensive or too cheap below it's normal price range your ad will be removed. and sometimes if wrong info ur ad will be removed. but on Jojo you will see plenty scammers posting infinix note 3pro 25k camon cx 30k. better buy on olx than Jiji.
Re: How To Avoid Being Cheated Or Scammed On JIJI Or OLX by leonard002(m): 9:06am On May 01, 2017
No matter what I'm buying, whether online or offline, as far as its used, I must see u face to face, test what I'm buying to my comfort before I pay.

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