GoodFaith:

@davodyguy
PLEASE DONT TAKE YOUR TILER TO THE PLACE YOU ARE BUYING TILES
My brother you don't need your tiler
First thing
Get your Engineer to give you measurement
Go out there and look at tiles and get prices
Pick the type of tiles you want
Bring few of the tiles to your sit, get the tiler to review the tiles
Now tell the tiler go give you measurement-------"Time for your eye to Open"
Now go buy the tiles base on the Engineer measurement
Tell the tiles seller to MAKE SURE THE NUMBER OF YOUR TILES YOU BUY IS COMPLETE
Call the tiler to come start work
Tell the tiler the total piece of tiles you bought
That you will count each room IN PIECE

This is the same advice I gave him yesterday but he refused, he kept cursing Igbos and blaming them for his woes which he caused by himself. I even told him the guy can defeat him in a judgement because he failed to count his own goods before evacuation. The blame is his.

davodyguy:
Guys
While we work and go about, let's not forget COVID-19 is real.

The attached image is for an uncle we lost to COVID-19 on Christmas Eve.

I've cried all night since then, cause it's a painful loss.

God that made us to witness January 1st 2020 will keep us alive to see many more years.

RIP uncle BJ

Why are you rubbing the name of the yoruba in the mud? Why you dey look for their trouble?

SLAP44:
Can someone explain to me what the process of skull mining entails?

Is the business profitable?

Wahala be like bicycle

successmatters:


I am with you on this, we cannot allow these other tribes be profiling others for their mistakes.

We were all here some years ago when Brabus swindled up to 10 clients in our full glare here. Nobody, nobody ever mentioned that Yoruba people are crooks and 419 people. Everyone respected themselves, but one poor fvull will lose his money via greed and come on here to castigate a whole tribe of about 40 million people.

Everyone should condemn this.

Brabus might be forgiven for his stealing and being a crook because he is Yoruba. We are allowed to be dishonest and still brag about it because we own Lagos, we decide who should steal and who shouldn't

Igbos should be dishonest only in the East alone

Arrewa just told me it's a lie. He said Boko haram has been defeated and the north is very safe.

Ogbuefi2020:

The Ikwere-Benin attachment is the most ridiculous of all. Benin came to Ikwerre land at the time when the empire was collapsing like a pack of card. after depopulating the west, Benin looked east but before they could enter the eastern heartland the Portuguese left bight of Benin and moved to Bight of Biafra. After this movement by Portuguese, Benin lost its monopoly of guns as Arochukwu acquired the new weapons and chased Benin out

Sounds like the truth.

SLAP44:


Nice analysis,
However, you will hit a brick wall if I tell you to explain if it's the whites that gave these equally ancient towns their names.

Onicha Enugu
Onicha olona
Onicha ebonyi
Onicha ugbo

I think Onicha was the right spelling and pronunciation of the town Onitsha before the whites came and spelt what they liked. There was Aniocha also in Anambra and another in Igbo Delta, so that doesn't count.

I agree with you completely.

Juliusmalema:
Amotekun..

Watch the game and understand the players.

As a fulani man, juliusmalema will be posting obvious OPC news and be tagging Amotekun because the fulani is afraid of what Amotekun can do to their lawless herders.

Watch the game.

GoodFaith:


Sorry nobody sold me fake cable
If you sell me fake cable it will be a war
You will give me the correct cable or will 500k to make your life hell
I fight back, I don't take BS

You fight back for this our Lagos?

Both you and your 500k will be beaten black and blue. The same people whom you paid to treat their matter will finish your money, then collect bribes from them to chase you around. They are at an advantage because they know the area. You cannot be coming from Yankee to win local feuds in the market.

n3xt:


I didn’t know you’re speaking for the poor.

Tell me just one poor person who gets a new Mercedes as winning and instead opt to be driving his keke maruwa?

We poor people will never pretend to be poor, he who is on the ground, is there anywhere he can fall to again?

n3xt:


Yinmu!

Before stone-coated, there was Nigerite Super lightweight. Then, longspan roofing sheet. Later, Steptiles. Not too long metcopo, shingles, shakes, Gerald, polycarbonate, SIP, acrylic and so on...

Everything is only a matter of time!

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I did a project in Lekki, Lagos for a high profile Nigerian here and he decided to use Nigerite roofing sheet. He cares not about who’s looking! His land costs about 60m

Wring analogy again

That a rich man decided to hail a taxi and go to work, it's either he wants to throw off his enemies and pass in a vehicle they don't know, or he is afraid to scratch his car.

That a rich man decided to use Nigerite, it's either he is building a house for his people where he won't stay for long, or he's protecting his land from grabbers with a house.

For a poor person like me, it's different. If a poor person decides to use aluminium, it's because he knows he cannot afford better options. The poor don't pretend to be poor.

Commonsense101:

@ Bolded Couldn't agree more.. . . . "Quality" of life is exactly about that. Happiness and satisfaction.

Do you know that using goods that gives you happiness can make one to live longer?

I laugh when some people who are as poor as me tell me that it doesn't matter what they use to roof their house, or that the neighbours can go to blazes as he isn't trying to satisfy them.

The day you start building, you are dancing in an open square and many are watching you. If you cannot afford some finish, we understand and nod in sympathy, but for some to come here and tell me it's a matter of choice to see stone coated and still use aluminium, ask them why they didn't use grasses as roof like in the olden days, why did they even bother to use aluminium?

Is that so?

That's an Anambra ijele masquerade dance

n3xt:


Not at all!

When Simonkk wanted to supply me just 400k light fixtures, they came in their official bus.

Here we’ve seen someone who took 1.8m to buy cable from retailers and still end up paying transport.

The person who had 1.8m to spend is not a small player. It’s just that we are not fully exposed to the endless opportunities out there.


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When I first wanted to buy from these guys, they were like “We have minimum orders.”

I just told them “I have access to a very large market and I can recommend people to buy from you on a daily basis.”

I’ve had to walk in to many iron foundries to enquire about steel. If I can’t buy direct, I can get people to buy for me.

What I am telling you is that everyone cannot be driving to SimonKk to buy 10 pieces of light bulbs worth 8k for their small house, and that those who buy in bits are so much in the majority, and that's why the retailers are thriving.

Your example is way off the mark because people still patronise those small retailers with good results at the end. Please let's not demonise small players, if not, we will be going to the north to buy pepper for our stew instead of buying from Iya Basira.

Commonsense101:


Wait you're the person who got sold fake cables the other time now , abi?
Posting the prices from your "correct seller" who turned out to have slapped you .
Your trouser no help you ?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I need someone to help me stand up from this gutter I have fallen into

Commonsense101:

Errrm, I'm confused. . . .
What tribe are the honest people who sell quality from??

Judge a man based on your interaction with him not this Tribe nonsense. Some of you will probably see honest sellers and swerve because thier price is "high" . then turn to the dishonest ones with more attractive prices and come here to wail when you get swindled.
some guy embarrased himself sometime ago, gloating about buying cheap cables from some seller, after cussing out reputable suppliers ( i think topsy or twinsken) with higher prices ..... .but alas he had bought trash for the price of trash.

Do your due diligence,

95 % of the people who trade in those items you mentioned above are From the same tribe , so both the honest and dishonest sellers will statistically come from the same pool. It's common sense

That's what I was saying all along, If a story sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Stop thinking you're too smart because you will lose at the end.

My worry is that instead of people to admit they were greedy, they try to pass the blame off to another people he hates so he can claim victim. A wise person would have taken his beating and swallowed his hurt and walk away instead of trying to tarnish a while tribe of people.

GoodFaith:

Nairaland is a school
I have learn from Nairaland
and Using my street sense
If I walk into a Boss house to go get rent
10 to 15 people with gun
and Boss paying respect

n3xt:


I think I over-exaggerate that part but I hardly deal with small retailers these days. I walk in directly to companies and direct importers to make my purchases.

Cement - Lafarge
Sand - Berger, Ilaje or anywhere dump trucks can get it.
Light fixtures - Simonkk, Ago
Iron Rods - I do POD
Blocks - I produce them myself.
Granite - I get account for Quarry.
Plumbing tinz - I do Rifeng or POD with verified suppliers.
POP/Plasterboards - I do direct importers (Omega in Mushin)
Interlock Mould - a Chinese company in Eleyele Ibadan.

I do bulk buying and as a matter of fact, I still have some material I bought 6 years ago in my store.

I don't understand what you are trying to do here, are you mocking those who cannot afford to do bulk buying or what? I think what you should be advising them is how to do your due checks and how to ensure they are not cheated.

You cannot be telling everyone to buy bulk because you did same. Some people are small players and so they must buy in bits.

laiperi:
OP, if you are trying to show the beauty of new areas and settlement in Enugu fine. All the places you have shown are not more than one block or street in Ibadan.

Show old established areas in Enugu.

If one block or one street is shown to represent Ibadan, you will think you are in Paradise.

Ibadan beats Enugu hans down, Enugu is the brown roof capital

topsy23:


People believe that you want to cheat them.

Merry Christmas and happy new year in advance

But end up losing good money in the process

n3xt:


I respect you bro for this.



Everything rises and fall on leadership.
It’s the government’s role to introduce statutory price and quality control to maintain smooth economy in nation.

The people in power knew what to do. They just don’t care.

For a very long time, we were getting cement at factory price in my ongoing project. The ministry supervising the project ordered the cement directly from Lafarge.

Let’s ask ourselves, what’s the work of SON, MAN etc?

I stopped patronizing retailers/agents a very long time ago. I buy direct from companies (Coleman, Lafarge, Dangote, Simonkk and the likes).

I count my stuffs on site.

Wrong wrong wrong!

There is no government in Nigeria. Everyone does what they like and for those who will get lower prices, it's a case of a government body arm twisting another government body or forcing themselves on another private body to sell cheaper, not because there is any laws anywhere being followed.

The sooner you all start to learn that you are on your own and stop all these cries about being swindled by doing your own checks, the better for you.

Oh, you stopped patronising retailers? You are a big liar! What happens if you need small quantities of an item, you will go to Coleman factory and request for 2 coils of wire or to Pfizer and request for a card of paracetamol?

GoodFaith:


If you guys are deported
What will they say about me wearing this pant in Nigeria
getting in Bus and off bus in Nigeria
I have few of this pant to wear and shoe with paint on my next visit
I damage this clothes when people doing stuff for me
I end up becoming part of the worker
some friends have told me to to buy over raw working clothes and keep it in my car

Baba, you will be deceiving only yourself if you think that by wearing dirty pants you can prevent them from eating your money.

See, the government itself are crooks, people on the ground are also crooks, so the best you can do to yourself is to reduce the impact and not to try to sound smart in a field you will be made to be the prey.

opolo eye, no bi open eye

twinskenny:
same to you boss more wins for us this coming year

Don't mind the guy, he look you guys here finish and decided to do what he liked after all the help he gets here. He should be left to enjoy his loss.

kopell:
Hahahah, when you frequently here God name from anybody you're negotiating with, it doesn't matter what tribe my brother run oooo. Not all igbos are bad people, bad people are in all tribes it's individuals that matters.

Let me tell you what happened, a proven dealer here gave him the real cost of the tiles and factored in his profits, the guy refused to buy from someone here because someone in the market is offering to sell cheaper.

He went to the market after a carrot was dangled in his front and he swooped on the carrot thinking we was being smart, then he was outsmarted!

Coming here to complain about the 130k makes no meaning since na you do yourself.

davodyguy:

This is painful, knowing my wife warned me not to deal with this guy.

A lesson for Kobo Kobo project owners.

Always count all you buy, from cement to tiles to cables to pipes to taps.

Count at the store, count again in the vehicle and when you get to site, recount.

Don't pay anyone until goods are supplied.

We must encourage retailers, that's what I thought. But some retailers are evil.

We're in Agric Market Orile, all through. While tried to make U turn to the other side, this guy did what he did and said no need to check.

On getting to site, we counted and found discrepancies. We called him and he lied that he loaded it before we came, which is why he said we should not bother recounting from the truck.

He said he's not going to the village for Christmas, but staying in Lagos.

We called him this morning not to take our words, that he should come to the site to count. The guy said he's in the village and not back till end of January, 2021

See life.

When God strike some people, we would not know they're paying for their evil deeds.

Too many wicked people in Nigeria.

₦130,000 plus gone on Christmas day

You can keep sounding self righteous because you already had the plan to blame someone else for your laxity. You failed to count your goods and you are here still blaming the seller when you should have turned back the truck at the road to recount.

I hate it when people come online to spread hate because of their own failure to do the right things. A nairalander even offered you lower prices, but noooo, you must go buy from those whom you don't like, whom you claimed had cheated you many times just to come and cry here?

I still had more

Bkayyy:

I dey tell you.
Nobody knows respect like Ndị Afonjọ.
Just see the way they respected Oba of Lagos to the fullest.

After which they broke bottle on top on Oba head line that in Osun just like their custom instructed them

davodyguy:


I'll not repeat such again.

Lesson learned.

When these guys sweet talk you and swear by God's name, you think they're saying the truth

Baba calm down

Nothing to be angry about as you failed to do your checks. How can you tell us that you accepted him by his words, took the loaded tiles and left the market only to come back and complain here.

Do you know he can defeat you in a judgement?

Do you know that the drivers could also stop
along the way and reduce your tiles?

Do you know that your tiles might have disappeared right from your site?

Better check well before accusing people.

davodyguy:
When buying tiles, ensure you do the measurements accurately with your tiler and also ensure proper conversion from sqm to cartons and lastly if possible, after agreeing price with supplier, go with your tiler when going for pickup.

I just got swindled of 90+ cartons costing over ₦130,000.

Lesson learned.

I know all tribes in Nigeria have bad people, but we need to be wary of some particular ones.

When I bought cables from them, it's the same thing until I stood my ground.

When I bought conduit pipes from them, it's same thing. They sold fake 20mm at the price of original 20mm Dignity pipes. I stood my ground and returned all pipes

Now it's tiles from Orile.
This criminally minded Patrick Ebere knew what he did, smuggled all the tiles in the truck before my arrival to make U turn to the other side.
Swearing that ' ọgá the thing complete' 'maka why I go cheat you'

I said I'm coming to his shop, he said no that he has traveled to the East, whereas this bastard is right here in Lagos

So, you want to tell us that when you bought cables, one tribe cheated you, when you bought pipes, the same tribe cheated you, and you still carried your 2 left legs to enter their shop again just to get swindled, so you can come online and wail your hearts out?

Who do you this thing?