₦airaland Forum

doyin01:
Several people on this thread called the bottom last year and that made a particular moniker "deflover" to keep arguing with them and the moniker kept claiming that bitcoin will touch 14k before the bull run will start.. so rest and leave the past

Bro you seem to be obsessed with deflover, it seems you cannot make a post here without bringing up his name. Just think it's strange how you somehow brought up his name in response to my post that has nothing to do with him.

Nothing concerns me with anyone else's prediction, but I remember folks on this thread panicking and forecasting even more downside. All the news outlets were releasing one bad news after another to cause more selloff; that was all I needed to know, it's time to buy. Buying when others have panic sold in the midst of FUD and doomsday predictions have always served me well in different asset class. So when I ask the rhetoric question "who called the bottom?" I'm not saying I'm the only one who called it. That phrase is actually a popular expression e.g "who said Tinibu will win? This guy." Or "Who said Argentina will win the world cup? This guy" Do you get it now? It's doesn't indicate that I'm the only one who could've made that prediction. Maybe u should take your advice and rest, but buy bitcoin, we are heading up.

Who called the bottom last year? This guy.

Traveling overases with just a tourist visa is like voluntarily hopping into a slave ship during the times of slavery. If you were a young and single guy, I can understand the risk vs reward but as a married guy with children, I don't think it's very wise.

You will basically have to start afresh, working menial jobs for less than minimum wage because anyone hiring an illegal immigrant will exploit them as they have no legs to stand on and are desperate for work. Your best hope of eventually getting papers would be to do a fake marriage with a citizen but that comes with very high costs, abuse from the citizen and risk of the immigration services denying such marriage after all the money and years spent.

How about your wife and kids? How is your wife supposed to get intimacy when you are gone for years? Don't you realize, intimacy like food and shelter is a basic human need? You will likely be cheating on your wife but woe betide your wife if she sleeps around. How about your kids, who will be the father figure they need at such tender age? Most of these cultists and armed robbers you see today had no responsible fathers in their lives.

I will say you should sit down and think outside the box for ways to improve your business or for new business ideas. Don't let the pressure of japa syndrome make you make a move you will ultimately regret. I too have felt the urge to abandon it all and relocate overseas, but the risk vs reward doesn't make any sense and there are no guarantees in life.

Poor name selection, it sounds like a tribalistic payment gateway.

Catapault:
That picture is giving me London vibes or maybe Yanki.

Are you sure that is Orlu?

What’s a police yellow tape doing there?

Liar?

Lol I took a second look at the pic like I'm seeing it for the first time and I can see why you got the foreign vibe. But this is in Orlu and I walk past this path everyday. Police tape is sold in naija, check jumia.

Yes. This road is in the Orlu part of Imo state. We've had sidewalks and road drains for years. They just patched up this part of the sidewalk last week. So yes it's rare but they do exist.

Promxy94:
I felt like passing but your comment forced me to make my position known.

If an offer is not worth accepting then hold unto your name because i like your spirit. Besides if you price cheap you never get high sales. But if you price high, you either get a high sale, or a no Thankyou. So keep up with what you want.

Thanks a lot, that makes me feel better.

Crazeworld:
Nobody can give an accurate advise on how much you should sell a domain they don't know. You didn't even give enough information like the keyword, potential use case by industries, desirability, etc. Only you knows the domain name which means only you can valuate it. Every other advise given here is just from a sales point of view.

However, the mail from Afternic's sales rep shows clearly that the domain in question isn't anywhere worth your asking price of $8k. In his word (let's assume the agent is male), "the client started with a much lower offer but was eventually jacked up to 1k after extensive domain education on similar sales in the current market." If the domain were that valuable, I think the agent would have advised the client that 1k is a low offer.

From your response, it looks like you would have happily sold it if you can net above $1k after commission but you decided to shoot for the moon by countering $7k. In my opinion, it doesn't look like a very good decision that can help close the sale.

If you are starting out in domaining, getting sales, irrespective of the amount, will greatly help to boost your confidence. You don't sit on a domain and say you know it's worth much more than you are being offered. You can upgrade your portfolio when there is cashflow.

Very good points. This particular domain is worth much more. It is in an industry that's blowing up exponentially. It is a 2 word, 7 letter domain that ends in "jobs". I can confidently sit this one out because there's a high demand for it. But, I get your point.

Kasiyya:
bro take that offer. Break the yoke cause is you first ever sale

I countered. They were low balling me and they know it. But it's all good, this one doesn't have to be my first sale.

trafficpools:
like you've been advised quickly accept the offer and moved on, cos 50/50 you might and might not be able to sell the name for the price again

Wishing you your first sale with the name!!!!

Too late bro, I countered with $7k. Similar domains sold between $7k and $22k. But If they counter with something higher than $1k I might accept it. If they don't reply back, I will keep it because I know this particular domain is worth much more.

Heyzee5:
Well, since it is your first sale, I will advise that you take the offer. I am assuming the domain name is also grossly overpriced.

Simply reply with:

Hello,
Kindly proceed with the sale for $1000. I will also adjust the nameserver to reflect afternic's nameserver. Thanks.

Adjust the nameserver to get your 850. Congrats in advance.

Thanks for the advice.

trafficpools:
after commission, you'll get $800.
You should reply the email you received with the amount you wish to sell it!

Is there any template or important thing to include? It will be my first sale. In the email, the broker said if I change the server I will get $850 instead of $750.

Guys please help me. I listed a domain on afternic some time ago and today I received an email from one of their domain broker that someone is interested in the domain. My buy it now price on aftenic is over $8k with a $500 reserve. The interested buyer made an offer for $1000 and after commission, I will get $850.

How do I counter? I think this is a low offer.

Geovanni412:
If only people know how bad things could get, they will appreciate deflover's warnings. His trades may be wrong but unless someone is hiding under a rock, the current macroeconomic situation does not bode well for anything investment- gold, commodities, stocks, crypto.
Mind you, HODLERS of stocks or crypto will always say that everything bounces back to its highs if the product is good but that is not always true. Japan's Nikkei 225, which measures strength of biggest companies in Japan has not returned to its highest point since the crash of 1989. How many years have passed since then? Can you say that Japan is not a big economy?
Let's see how things play out - just switch hope indicator on and pray that we don't see a depression as bad as 1929 or 2000.

I just need more retail investors like you and main stream media to start forecasting a 1929 Great Depression or 2000 tech bubble burst before I decide to go all in crypto and stocks. When the market makers, insiders, hedge funds etc start forecasting the worst, that is literally the best time to buy because they are causing investors to panic sell while they are buying at dirt cheap prices.

The market is highly manipulated. When a majority of retail investors are expecting one outcome, the opposite occurs. It's like a casino, the house always wins because they have the capital to move the market however they please, retail is nothing but a drop in the bucket. Classic example was the V-shapped recovery we witnessed in 2020 after the the coronavirus became a pandemic and lockdowns were announced all over the world. Did anyone expect the market to recover so quickly? People panicked and sold stocks, only to see them quickly recover.

Funny how you gave the example of the Japanese NIKKEI never reclaiming its high from 1989, but the majority of markets In developed countries have far exceeded the 1929 Great depression or the 2000 tech bubble burst.

So please continue with the fear mongering as it helps me decide when to actually put cash to work. I'm waiting for more doom and gloom from social media and the news media before going all in, for now I'm slowly adding to long term positions.

This is the bottom. Start buying now. This is financial advice.

GeneralOjukwu:
Don't be shameless.

Why blame the OP for your kinsmen committing 99% of the crimes Nigerians do abroad?

You are not even ashamed to still deny the fact that Yorubas undoubtedly lead in intellectual achievements inside and outside Nigeria.

There's a reason why your people all run from their homelands. There's a reason why the best amongst them must have lived in South West.

Stop complaining about the OPs honesty and worry more about how Igbo language is fast becoming the lingua franca in most jails in Asia.

You are obviously a troll hiding behind a moniker on nairaland. You will never spew such silly sentiments on a platform with your real picture and name so for that reason I wouldn't take you seriously. However, you are a confirmed idiot if you somehow believe Yorubas don't commit as much crimes as igbos or Igbos aren't high achievers abroad. It will be silly to sit here and list the multitude of crimes committed by yorubas today alone nor would it benefit anyone if I were to list accomplishments by igbos as that will not only be childish, I wouldn't be able to complete the task in a finite time.

Silly trolls like you and many others on this platform will always exist just like they do on other Internet platforms. But it's rather appalling that mods are also in on this divisive tactics. They are supposed to set the standard here. While they cannot completely rid this place of tribalists, they shouldn't encourage it either. Pushing threads from people who's main objective is to slander a whole tribe, doesn't help anyone.

Philipponzaghi:
If you check my post timeline, you’ll see I’ve desist from posting lot of drug arrest by Nigerians abroad daily because people like you paint me a tribalist for doing so.

I’m an independent reporter of drug crimes, they are majorly done in Asia and unfortunately almost 99% of the drug traffickers caught are from one single tribe.

I backpedaled a bit from reporting it because trust me, the Indians are arresting Nigerians almost everyday for drug crimes and if I keep reporting it daily it will be too hard for the tribe majorly doing this to swallow.

For calling me a tribalist, I am now volunteering to make sure I report the arrest of drug traffickers daily as they happen and not try to be lenient. So that the tribalist tag can eventually stick.

Just watch for my threads from now on!

You are a shameless tribalist. Anyone with just one 1 brain cell can quickly notice the pattern of your threads. You post crimes committed by igbos and then post topics highlighting yoruba accomplishments. I could care less what you post as there will always be shameless tribalists like you hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet to slander a whole tribe. Where I have issue is with the moderators who are supposed to maintain a certain standard on this platform pushing such divisive threads to the front page. When you know a person only posts crimes by a certain tribe while praising another tribe, you need to question their motive before pushing their threads to the front page.
I really wonder if seun approves of this.

This Op (Philipponzaghi) is a confirmed tribalist and it's quite appalling ng that Nairaland pushes these divisive news to front page just to get more eyeballs and engagement. If you scan through this OP's topics, he only reports crimes committed by Igbos and 99% of those threads make it to front page. While on the other hand, he reports achievements by yorubas ex:

"Victory Yinka Banjo gets 19 scholarships worth $5 from US and canada"

"David Odekunle Accepted into 7 Ivy League Colleges"

"Foluke Oyedeji-Laosebikan promoted to Queens Council in Canada"

But all the news pertaining Igbos are all crime related and they are immediately pushed to the front page. It's quite unfortunate that this platform all Nigerians see as a safe space to air opinions and get unbiased news has been turned into one that promotes and invokes tribalism.

Great call on $CIFR. I got in at $5.75, up 26% now. Will set a 10% trailing stop loss order as I ride this one.

Is it just me, or does it seem like today's dip is the usual 'buy the rumour, sell the news' pattern we've been witnesing all year round? Remember Elon Musk's highly anticipated appearance on SNL, remember Ethreuem's hard fork last month and now Elsavador finally making bitcoin legal tender. The said crypto sold off when the event took place. So I'm guessing this may be a temporary dip, but what do I know, I'm just a guy who drives taxi for a living.

Smooyis:
Are you newly married?

Lol, no sir. 5 yrs now

robosky02:
We did have a full squad, some players didn't make it to game due to visa issues so we had to play some local rivers Angel and pelican stars

But Oshoala just arrived camp and some other players

Wow, visa issues? I thought athletes get automatic permission to travel to the host country, never knew they had to apply for visa.

Realhommie:
I saw highlights of the game, our girls were unfortunate. Just one of those moments where you do everything but the ball would never go in, hardluck.

Oh that's terrible then

robosky02:
Nigerias Supre Falcons last few games


07/10/19
WOQ
Nigeria1 - 1 Côte d'Ivoire


18/02/21
HFW
Nigeria 1 - 0 CSKA Moskva


20/02/21
FRW
Nigeria 1 - 0 Uzbekistan


23/02/21
FRW
Nigeria. 9 - 0. Equatorial Guinea


10/06/21
FRW
Jamaica. 1 - 0. Nigeria

How did Jamaica beat us, I thought they are only good at track and field.

In the coming days, we will read news reports about more faintings. This is an undisclosed adverse effect of the covid vaccine. Denmark football player Eriksen and Zambian president are just the lucky ones to be revived, many collapse and don't wake up.

Me and my household will not take any covid vaccine even if we are forced at gun point.

Grandmeister:
That's all fine..if you're a doctor will you work for free in a hospital? If you're a lecturer will you teach for free? Something that you won't demand from the government that actually FORCES you to pay taxes and different charges on services and commodities...a government you voted for in an election. You see them withholding salaries that are the workers RIGHTS yet you hail them and cower before them for your own CIVIL RIGHTS? Then turn around and demand those from churches? Misplaced priorities be our problem for this country.

Free for the community, paid for by their tithes and offerings. The teachers and healthcare staffs will be paid from the tithes and offering money. I rather that than mega churches.

He should be given a honorary medal for killing those two bandits. Two less lowlifes for the army to worry about.

My libido is as high as the summit of mt everest while my wife's is like that of Olumo rock. I want it everyday and twice a day on weekends, but she wants it far less. Making love is the cornerstone of marriage, not childbearing. If I don't want intimacy frequently, I will remain single and just date occasionally or pay someone for it, but that's a sin and also a health hazard. So every married couple out there should make love as often as their stamina permits.

I genuinely don't have anything to contribute to this matter. I had previously written "ok" to save space thinking I will have something tangible to say. So rather than leaving just "ok" I said let me come out clean. Leaving just "ok" is an eyesore! its tantamount to defacing a building with a graffiti, I'm no cyber hoodlum.

Even the inventors of Christianity don't carry the religion on their head like Nigerians. I have no issue with all these mega churches but I cannot stand the fact that a majority of their members are living in poverty while the leaders of the church and their children live in opulence. Rather than opening gigantic auditoriums or branches every day, they should spend more money giving back to the community. Open free hospitals, free schools, free houses for the homeless and stuff like that.

Its quite painful. My secondary school classmate Emeka Okafor from SS1 Alpha finished university 6yrs before me. Emeka used to come last 5 those days in school. He never cared about his studies, he only cared about being the best striker in our football squad. Every term, Emeka will magically dodge being asked to repeat a class; we suspect his father was greasing the palms of some very important people in the school.

Anyway, in SS1, luck ran out for Emeka and he was asked to repeat. I can remember Emeka crying like a hopeless chicken, his eyes was bloodshot red and he really thought his life was over. I stood by him in school that day he found out he will be repeating SS1 because I genuinely felt like he will commit suicide. You see Emeka wasn't a bully, but he loved to use seniority to have junior students run errands for him, he was panicking they will avenge his evil deeds

To cut a long story short, the following year, we heard Emeka had moved to the U.S with his family. He enrolled in one of the public schools there and he told me he was actually learning and doing very well in school. Somehow, Emeka was able to graduate highschool with honors, he then enrolled into a prestigious university with full scholarship. The last time I heard from him, he said he had finished medical school and was in his 2nd year of residency. He plans on becoming a brain surgeon some day. This guy finished university 6yrs before me, although he's still furthering his studies, he's light years ahead of me academically simply because he migrated to the U.S.

Now tell me, why should I recite the national anthem or wave my Nigerian flag? What have I benefited from this country to come out in public and say i'm proud of being Nigerian?

A friend of mine was employed by citibank in Lagos. The guy was so good he got promoted to head their retirement funds. Before we knew what was happening, he was transfered to new york to head a local branch there. So the sky is the limit for you.