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Bring Osinbajo or Zulum for us.

Maturity,

Na so

Sermwell:
I intend publishing some books on basic phonics for nursery and primary pupils. I had already typed the and visited someone on my street for arranging the work before printing.
I was asked to pay 3k to format each work before any other thing. The charges are as follows:

1. formatting 3k each
2. back cover 1k each
3. ISBN no. 7k each
4. printing #400 each. About 70 pages

I'm printing 6 different books but I have a strong feeling that I'm being cheated as I don't have any experience regarding how much these things cost. please I need to know if I'm being cheated. Please help me out. Thank you.

#400 could be cheap or expensive. Tell us the type of paper to be used, the quality of the printing and the type of machine doing the printing. Don't go and spend your money to print on expensive paper and high quality. Consider your market oh. Whether the book is printed at #400 using high quality material or printed at #200 using moderate quality material, the content remains the same. It is the content you are selling, whatever you are doing to cut cost, don't comprise on the quality cover and design.

He must have told his brother; I go kill you oh!! ...and he thought he was joking.

When person say, I go kill you, me I tear race. Even off na small pekin, I run.

My brother, there is a lot to tackle here including fraudsters

yetiyemi88:
I got an email telling me "Please be informed that you will not receive an invitation to attend the 2019 LSS Documentation exercise scheduled to take place from 12th – 20th October 2020.

We observed from your profile on the Scholarship Management Portal that you have not uploaded a valid admission letter."

I have checked everywhere and cannot find where to upload the letter.
All their numbers of 0902500007 and 0902500006 are switched off.
The whatsapp number of 0902500008 does not get my messages delivered.
And the email admissions.lss@ptdf.gov.ng rejects my email.

What should I do?

just be following updates on telegram, they will still invite you on a later date after they must have rectified the admission letter upload issue. Just note that you are not alone

Spendoumana:
My "view offer" is taken out.

check your email, they must have sent you an invitation mail. I just got mine this morning

Truth still dey pipeline

This man should have just married another person. Why kill her and kill yourself?

This man should have just married another person. Why kill her and kill yourself? Woman, see yourself now. Stay one place you no hear

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Suffering on top Poverty dey cause all these thing!

Please where can i get their decoder in Umuahia?

Please open the borders oh, the local rice farmers and merchants have killed us.

Openbusiness:
Mr man don't be clever by half, if you want to compare, compare of equal grounds. You can't be mentioning average business man in Nigeria and then saying average person in America. Why not say average business man in America too. Cuz that will expose your errors. Do you know how many millionaires America produces per year? Far far far better than your Nigeria.

if you want to go by equal grounds, I can bet that Nigeria produces more naira millionaires than dollar millionaires in US. What is even one million naira? #100, 000 x 10. So you see, you can't compare the value of the currencies on equal ground. Every currency and its purchasing power is peculiar to their local economy.

Kpomosauce:
so in essence dollar has more value than naira?

You can come to that conclusion only when the compare the purchasing power of the equivalent values in the local economy. If $1=#500, what can $1 do for you in US and what will #500 do for you in Nigeria?

Openbusiness:
Let's not even talk about exchange rate alone, let's look at it from the angle of quality of life and the purchasing power within the local economy. Nigeria produces garri locally, all raw materials to manufacture garri are local based. How is the cheapest garri? A very tiny nylon is N20. Go to America and Europe. Do you know what $20 or £20 can buy as per locally manufactured goods in those places? You can buy more than 20 units of full big boxed cereals. Some cost like 50 cents per box, that means you can buy 40 of those types with $20. Yet one idiot liar is still concocting useless lies that Naira is more valuable. In America, you can buy a latest 2020 car with about $25,000. Car that they manufactured in their country. Innoson claims to be manufacturing cars and 80% of their manufacturing materials are produced locally. Ok if that's true, which Innoson car can you buy for N25,000? Or what's the cheapest Innoson brand new car? Probably nothing less than N4m, yet they claim Naira is better. Rubbish post!

if an american company pays their staff $25, 000 per year, will you accept to work remotely for that company from Nigeria for a pay of #25, 000 per year?

Kpomosauce:
you just shot yourself on the leg guy

one dollar can buy you bottle water within the borders of the US. Now what can 1 naira buy within Nigeria.

if you want to compare the two, you do it using the equivalent values. So in your imagination, you want $1 to be equal to #1, so that when you get #100, 000 it becomes $100, 000? Do you know that an average person in US don't make $100, 000 in a year but an average business man in Nigeria can make more than #100, 000 every month? Our environments are not the same, you should not be comparing our currency head to head with that of dollar

CodeTemplar:
One Naira was once equivalent to one Dollar. How about that. The quality of 1 bedroom flat there isn't same as 2 bedroom flat here because water flows, power is constant, amenities work(mail, roads, train, healthcare, education). The disparity in buying power is effectively negated by standard of society.

Which currency in the world has its one unit equivalent to one unit of dollar? If $1 is equivalent to #500, you compare the purchasing power of $1 and #500 in the respective country!

Kpomosauce:
okay if 1 dollar can buy you a bottle of water what can 1 naira buy you?

is 1 dollar equal to 1 naira?

This has been my argument with a lot of people. What the naira will do here, its equivalent in other currency will not even do half of it in the country they use it.

BKsoul:
Now you see... thats your agreement with your client concerning payment, they were supposed to have an agreement concerning payment and the terms of payment agreement is supposed to come from one who will bring out the money, if it favours him, then he go ahead with the work, what if he has a budget on the money

That is the point I am trying to make. Since they didn't have an agreement on payment right from the onset, the op should have waited till month end before coming out. Well, I hope he gets paid by month end.


I am out.

BKsoul:
No you do not say that... its expected that every worker gets his payment once he finishes his work, so dont say that. can i buy your soap, then after using, i tell you i will pay you by month end how will you feel.

it is expected that a worker gets his payment after work, but when and how he gets it must be cleared stated! If they didn't specify that, he should not come hard on his client.


As for my soap, I have outstanding debts from my distributors. Most of them only pay up when they want new supplies. Its a condition we have agreed on, if you don't clear your old debt no new supply.

BKsoul:
that wasn't what you said..

you must have read my initial comments before the one you quoted. All I was trying to tell him was to exercise patience..

BKsoul:
the client should have stated the terms of payment from the onset... he said its 29th

If his client didn't mention the payment terms, what stopped him from asking for it? He is the one getting paid, he should have asked how he will be paid.

BKsoul:
Mr sweetbrownbuns, stop the wrong use of words.. if you want this issues to be settled, then by all means calm down... your temper is beginning to prove the other man right about the threats.. calm down now...if you could have handled it, you shouldn't have come to nairaland

now you are telling him to calm down. I said it earlier and you said I am wicked.

BKsoul:
You are wicked, so he should not pay the guy for work done? and you are doing business too? ha human being..

You are not getting my own point of view. He did a job, and his client said he will pay him by month end. That didn't go down well with him and the next thing he did was to threaten his client. His client then said if he doesn't stop the threat, he will not pay him. He then rushed here to call his client a scammer. Funny thing is that the client has come to say that next payment is by 25th, just two days from today. Can't he wait I do business and people owe me too, I give them some time and they pay up.

SweetBrownBuns:
You're a bigger nuisance. You think your actions aren't seen through clearly. Better get lost if you know you don't want to carry fire you rather not. If your intentions are honest, then you won't be contacting me alone. Shameless hypocrite. Wasn't there when we were discussing but suddenly acts judge over issues alien to. Him. Fraud apologist

You are running too fast. Calm down first. Give people some benefit of doubt and be overly convinced before you run to call them fraud.

SweetBrownBuns:
Really. Smiles



Show me. Where he said he'll pay month end before service rendered Sir. Thank you in advance as we wait


May God forgive you. Show me where I agreed to working under condition of non-payment in any way before service rendering. I can see you're sympathetic to fraud or his alternate



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McBrownJay


Dominique


VickyRotex

I was not with you when you went into a contract with him. I don't know what you agreed as your payment pattern. When I discuss business with a client, after every specifications for the business has been cleared, the next thing I ask is how payment will be made.

You have posted screenshots and none shows where you people agreed on immediate payment. Then he told you the payment will be by month end, how many days is it to month end that you can wait? If by month end, he doesn't pay you and you call him out, then it can be justified!

SweetBrownBuns:
You're not getting the point


Check the screenshot before you conclude


I asked for payment. If he knew he was going to pay, why my was he saying he wouldn't pay and then he'll block me.



Check the screenshots if I didn't mention I'll bring it here and I didn't want to. Check and see if he provided anything tangible regarding making payment


As I write, I have 50k with one client, 30k with another longer than his, no one saw me created a thread

You have posted screenshots but you didn't post anywhere you discussed about payment terms.

I have read through the chats, and he gave a condition upon which he will not pay you.