eleven:

Not that they were hard to sell, it was challenging for me because I didn't have a boutique to display them; had to do direct sales & delivery to clients which had high operating cost, highly pruned to credit purchases and meeting individual customer's taste, styles, colors and sizes.

At the end of the day had to sell all off at ridiculous prices to boutique owners.

The profit is well gained at retail level, at wholesale level its crazy except you have high volume turnover.

The business is well managed at retail level, having a boutique is very key.

Thanks man. I don't have any product at the moment but if i find anything valuable i will let everyone know.

eleven:

Thanks for the offer. Am sorry no. I have run that line before (Go through my profile to see my past adverts).

I seen your past post on handbags. Are they hard to sell? Why did you stop selling them?

eleven:

Not much though to maximize profit we use local freight handlers because using the big shippers are more expensive though very efficient but not cost effective for now.

Cost is about $3.95 per lbs for Air freight with a minimum weight of 25lbs.

Our regular handler is Liberty Express based in NY with office in Ikeja.

The new handler messing our shipment now is based in Ajao estate.

$3.95 is not bad at all. Do you think you might be interested in buying bulk women's handbags? Jeans, perfumes/colognes?

eleven:

Am a Nigerian living in Nigeria. I am my friend's contact in Nigeria handling his transactions.

My friend has several sources where he source his goods from. Ebay is one of the sources.

What we do is he buys from his sources, send directly to me with his prices, I sell and transfer his money back to him. The shipment we are currently waiting for which the clearing agents are messing up is our 7th shipment so far.

Previous shipments have always been smooth. We attempted a different shipper this time and trust me we will never use this shipper again.

Like I mentioned earlier its important you do your market survey very well, get a trusted contact on ground to do this for you before attempting to buy any products for resale.

I wish you good luck in this highly competitive field.

I would like to know how much does shipping and import taxes affect your business and which shipping company you use? Thanks

chucky234: I have been in the phone and accessories import business for six years now,its highly profitable if you have a good source and a reliable person in Nigeria that can help with the sales.
I can introduce you to my partners in the US who are white Americans,they will be able to help get blackberry and other phones at flat rates.

I appreciate your help but i feel the phone market is very saturated at the moment. Luckily enough i found a source where i could buy loads of new women's bags and jeans for cheap. I will try that within the next few weeks and post my products on Nairaland to see if there are interested buyers. I hope it goes well.

hey bro, are you a Nigerian American and if so what state are you from? Where do you buy cheap to resell and how profitable is this business, how many items do you ship per month? I appreciate your response. I'm a Somali American.

Hello everyone one, I'm new to nairaland. I was checking Konga.com and i realized that their prices is way too high compared to USA. I thought about buying used ones from Ebay and find buyers in Nigeria so i could make some profits from it. Electronics in kenya is also expensive since i was there a year ago. What do you guys think?