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Novice1: Great work Inspired.

Fact is, to buy a blue title vehicle in the the US, import it into Nigeria and clear it paying all the legal dues, you cant sell that vehicle at prevaiing market prices and make a profit.

Additionally, some damaged/collision vehicles can be rebuilt to near-pristine situations.

Bontee: Poster please pay up your levy because it is 100 percent legal to collect money for any public merriment or road closure by the local government authority in nigeria.

Can't you guys read?
This was held INSIDE HIS COMPOUND.
How does this translate to[b] PUBLIC[/b]

blank: Sorry to burst your bubble but it is a legal fee by the LGA.

Fhemmmy: Nice one . .. keep them coming

Yes Boss!
We have made a promise to hand people with quality cars.
We will never renege on that. . . . U lead the crusade boss!!

More pics to whet your eyeppetite

lagerwhenindoubt: It is particularly sad that nearly everyone on this thread has discounted the very essence of Salesmanship - TRUST , rather we have focused on blaming Alhaji for not inspecting a car before buying it. I suspect that a lot of posters on this thread are actually car dealers and cannot bring themselves to the point of beign a buyer. It is a pathetic excuse we are all making for damola and it is a sad development for Nairaland Autos. If you all think that this issue will rest with this thread - you are dead wrong, a lot of viewers have made the realization that they cannot TRUST every Auto-sales Post they read on Nairaland. It is even more sad that many have actually gone to inspect the so-called CLEAN, MINT, PERFECT, CHILLING cars - have been disappointed. I know one Highlander in Festac on Nairaland that is similar to what Alhaji bought. The pictures posted are different from the actual car and it had more than superficial problems. The real owner could not be found after they pressured me to sign a cheque for the full amount to a 3rd party. This poster is still very much on Nairaland and one Nairalander will buy this car and be in a similar situation.

I wonder why we cannot bring ourselves to accept the plain fact that this Damola character is not Trustworthy, rather we blame a man who Trusted him well enough to pay him N2million for trash. Na waooo.

Chairman
Thanks for your input. I really appreciate your observation. You are one of the few person i respect on this forum, i don't know why
You see, i really get worried when issues like this crop up because without some of our dealers knowing it, it is our business that gets to suffer.
You don't really get to know until you deal with someone who doesn't trust you or your judgement(this is the worst). Or when you lose sales to a rival
who you are dead sure doesn't have as much quality cars as you do.

I was surprised that given the vituperations pouring in from incensed buyers or observers, no dealer bar a few made any attempt to put things in perspective.
The seller was never, has never been, but may intend to be a dealer. But for the case in point, he is not one. Hence i find it hard to swallow
when people lump us all up, either as a pre-conceived notion or a reading carelessness. Whichever it is, it doesn't favour me as a dealer or any dealer for that matter.

But my main grouse is the issue of trust. I thank God for one thing; the seller didn't keep mute. He came back to at least salvage whatever is left of his name.
I really pity him cos from my little 'ignorance', I want to believe he did not set out to sell a lemon to the buyer, but is guilty and is paying for not fully revealing the condition or history of the unit he sold. He is paying for that now. Maybe if that car hadn't over heat along the road, we may never have heard of this deal till today.

I am also worried because i know that the future of sales in digital. People needn't leave the comfort of their homes or offices to buy or sell their wares; cars inclusive. And this can only be achieved when trust in entrenched. Therefore i shudder to think what will happen in this age of e-commerce if buyers can't trust sellers to fully disclose the condition or the exact situation their goods are in. We are already seeing the result in what Inspired M is doing here; clearing all the pre-order deals on Nairaland, simply because people can trust his final product. I urge him to keep up the game and never falter. Someone like me is also working hard to be sure i attain and surpass that standard. It is for this reason that i find it hard to believe that people are bashing Lekky 2 for his decision to buy sans inspection. At least from his experience, he has done a deal like this before and it worked out well.

Finally, you observers and buyers owe us a lot. U discovered something terrible that someone else is likely to fall into and u are keeping mute! WHY??
Expose the damn dealer and blacklist him !!!! Why do have to wait till someone is scammed before u say, "i knew it"! You are not showing love to your neighbour if you keep hiding such a dealer in our midst. If we intend benefiting from the buying convenience and comfort this real estate offers us, then it is up to us all to make it clean by exposing those out to sell lemons. It is like someone passing thru a robbery scene unhurt and then goes past a close check-point on his way without alerting the police to what is going on behind them. Where is our love for one another??!!! Must we emulate the said dealers we demonise in this regard? Hell No!!

It is to user credit that some level of exposure and openness is being attached to car sales here. People will have to disclose VIN and other issues with their cars to advertise. It is to our credit that Lekky 2 came back and is getting justice for what was done wrongly to him. I can assure you, you will hardly come by such a positive feedback from road side deals. If you do, let me know where you got such so i can go commend the person involved.

Hence, in as much as we think dealers are fraudulent, it is up to us to expose those who take advantage of us all. Those who know me will tell u that even if u approach me to buy a car and i don't have what you are looking for, that parting shot from me will be tips on how to buy the right unit.

Whatever be the case,we can only get better with time. We are not yet there, but with continuous, conscious effort, we will get there in a short time.
IT IS WELL WITH US!

Piedpiper: Ol boy and you never let me know ? Ol boy and you never let me know ?

I have been waiting to be sang to the bank oo
I been tell u about this ride but ur eye dey for SUV.
I have another Honda Accord 2009 LX from the place this one came. Also a 2005 Toyota Tundra just in case
If u dey interested, make we do two aside.