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OP I get your points but I think this is relative to the age, status and maturity of the individual in question. I used to think like this but time and the experiences of others have thought me otherwise.

Now I see several people here saying they like being single so they can avoid several responsibilities. So who takes care of your own responsibilities? You or someone else? If you are young, remember your guardians/parents would not live forever. If you are independent, remember you could die and leave everything you have worked for behind with nothing left to show you were even born. If you like build a 12 bedroom mansion and buy several rolls royce. Without a spouse or kids, your siblings would be the ones to inherit your property when you die and leave them to their own spouses and their children to inherit what you worked for.

When you get old who would take care of you? Your siblings would be old too and need taking care of. What's more? their spouse and children would likely be there for them, supporting them financially, emotionally and physically. You would have nobody to fend for you then, you would be full of regret.

There's no joy in the carefree nature of single life that equates to the joy of companionship, knowing you have people who love only you including those you brought to the world and who would carry your name beyond the grave.

Be wise.

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nickyvil:
I understand you perfectly but this is used item and there is always terms/conditions for every vendors. If an item is taken, there is a certain time frame a complaint can be made and every body knows you have to test an items before you take it home. So the mistakes is from both the seller and buyer but more on the buyer, let's just state the fact. If you tested an item and your not okay with it then no matter what the seller says its your right not buy so like I Still said, since there is not middlemen(escrow) the buy and seller have to come to a term before transacting and a writing or recording evidence must be on record. Like I said I'm not in support nor against. We just need to learn which I have learn this in a hard way now I work more with terms and conditions than just taking a sellers word.

I agree that there should be some terms of transaction. It doesnt matter who was right or wrong in this case. I'm only saying, this matter would not have escalated if the right steps were taken to resolve it privately. The buyer has lessons to learn as well, but most times when an issue is dragged online, the seller suffers. So the seller should not assume they don't have to take precaution also.

The best lawyers try to resolve an issue before it gets to court. Even if either one of them is right 100%, their manner of approach would determine how the judge/jury sees the case. The best sellers adopt this form of approach. I have bought some things on Nairaland and can attest to good sellers who have given me items that broke down immediately I got home, their conduct and honesty during and after the sale makes me overlook the issue, especially if it's a minor case I can fix with the help of a local artisan. After all a used item is not supposed to be as pristine and perfect as new and that's why it costs less. In this case, the seller could have courteously explained why the item is not liable for a refund or offered some form of settlement (even if they are sure the buyer won't take it) instead of initially ignoring or claiming the user spoilt the item themselves. Even if the initial silence was for a genuine reason, his conduct after eventually showing up would put any buyer off immediately. You were nice before the sale, begging the rider not to leave until you have had a chance to show how the item works, why turn bitter afterwards because of a complaint? insulting the buyer and even bringing the sellers husband/family into the public show of shame is only painting yourself in bad light. Businesses thrive on reputation.

That said, I'm happy they are working on resolving the issue. We look forward to more responsible transactions on this platform and others.

Please add more photos

nickyvil:
I'm not in support or against but electrical go go faulty at any time even with warranty.. Anybody buying used items must have it at the back of his mind that he/she is gambling that's why it need to be tested and apart from testing come to agreement with the seller that within so period if the item developed faults, the seller either refunds or repair??

Transacting business online via social media is a whole different ball game and a risky one at that. It’s not like selling on the streets where the seller can deny the buyer and claim he never gave a receipt so never met the buyer. You have to keep in mind that this is social media and with the history of online fraud spanning close to 20 years, Nigerians have been wired to suspect everyone they meet online and have developed a system for protecting themselves.

So if you don’t show concerted effort to make your customer happy, even the slightest issue could tick the buyer off and buyer’s remorse will set in. You can be sure they will be going back online to taint your image/get justice. That is why a seller should be careful to make the customer happy, even if the customer is wrong in deed, customer is always right in theory. Show concern for their plight, they might eventually tell you not to bother that they will fix the item themselves. It’s dangerous to annoy them, buyers most times are anonymous and as such have no reputation to protect as such, you the seller have a business to run and should therefore thread carefully and be professional at all times.

Learn from the folks in 1st world countries how they handle such issues (for example eBay). The seller knows how feedback works and seeks to solve problems not compound them.

SenatePresdo:
Twitter be making Buhari feel like Vladimir putin just to massage his ego and cover his shame

Twitter is bigger than Buhari.

Jack is just trying to give Buhari a soft landing as to cover his shameful face.

Their COWee app has been banned from appstore

If e sure for Buhari, after negotiating with Twitter, I dare him to Tweet that statement that made Twitter suspend him.

Dot Brain Buhari with Dot Brain followers

Twitter is feeling the heat of the ban not because of the ban itself but because Nigerians are using VPN and messing up the trend/algorithms in other countries that they rely on to decide which ads go where.

AnonymousPrideNgx56432:
1. Dispatcher confirmed it was working very well and she paid.
2. She messaged after 2 weeks that it acting up.
3. I suggested she checks the thermostat as its a good place to start when using a microwave.
4. Oga I don’t have a record of deceiving anyone else someone else would have called me out.

If it is acting up there’s no way calling out ones name on Nairaland can fixed it. I sold her a tested working used microwave..... can you ask her if she bought it non - tested?

If the item you sold isn't yours but your neighbour's (according to you) have you stopped to think if your neighbour gave you a faulty item to sell?

Have you contacted the neighbour to verify the claims? If they admit the item was faulty why not arrange to have the item returned to the neighbour and a refund given to the buyer?

If the neighbour denies foul play, lets be fair here, 2-3 weeks is not a good enough time for a microwave to go faulty. Let's assume the buyer would genuinely want the item they bought to last and not intentionally abuse it, since they paid money for it, delivery and all. Even if the buyer actually abused the item until it developed a fault, you could offer to refund a fraction of the cost to the buyer enough to take care of repair costs, or you could offer to buy another microwave for the buyer from car boot sales people if she is willing to add some money. When you find the time, you repair the faulty microwave and resell as a refurbished item.

A good seller should show concern for buyers plight. Even if you lose money sometimes, a good name is always a meal ticket to better deals.

michlins:
they forget that price is relative. What I see as expensive maybe cheap to you.

Let the market determine the prices

I would like to see the following dialogue:

Nairalanderexampleseller1 1 Pendulum Clock = 500k
Nairalandexamplebuyer1 Seller can you justify why you are selling the pendulum clock at this rate?
Nairalanderexampleseller1 Yes it’s actually a painting by Leonardo da Vinci not physical pendulum clock.
Or
Nairalanderexampleseller1 Thanks for pointing that out, I found it in my grandma’s house when I came for burial and we had to clear the house out, I haven’t really been in the country that long so I don't know how much this is really worth. How much do you think it’s worth?

Instead of

Nairalanderexampleseller1 1 Pendulum clock = 500k
Nairalandexamplebuyer1 Seller you dey mad ni, na ordinary alarm clock you wan sell 500k? Ogun fire you and your generations.
Nairalanderexampleseller1 Fool, catch me outside, how bout that?

michlins:
people who want to get things for free will come for you. Trust me

They won’t. I am not advocating for them not to complain if justified, but to do so without insults.

mrsdaniel:
Disadvantages of getting some category of used item ! Not everyone is always lucky .. Take heart tho

Never buy electrical items without testing. Not even at the shop, let alone from an individual.

Guys let’s not ruin this thread with constant insults while complaining of prices of things posted. This might discourage some people from posting their stuff due to fear they would get bashed.

My idea of the purpose of this thread is to clear household items not needed by the seller not a place to market items sold from a shop, on the other hand it’s not a distress sales thread where you can get the items at ridiculously low rates

Also, consider the fact that some people have items to sell that they inherited or didn’t buy themselves (perhaps gifted) or bought several years ago and may genuinely not know the going market rate. You can’t possibly sell something bought in 1991 for the same price in 2021, especially for properties that appreciate in value. You also have to deal with buyers with CPS (chronic pricing syndrome), who want to buy something worth 300,000 for 3k just because it’s on the clearance thread, bargaining is allowed but some CPS enthusiasts take low fixed or starting prices being advertised as an invitation to outrightly rip your pockets out and steal the item from you, then get angry if you refuse to go lower than advertised. There is really no metric for determining what clearance price is right for an item as you might have to consider various factors listed above and also the location and demand for the item. For example Alex may really need something in Borno but can’t find it in the market cos the sellers have fled due to crisis in the region. Sani may still have the item for sale in Borno and just needs the cash to relocate elsewhere for safety. His cost of the item would be very different to the cost of the item in a place where it can be easily gotten. Seeing the bashings on the thread, Sani May be discouraged to post the item, whereas Alex might have been grateful to pay anything for it.

The best we can do is suggest to people who post prices we deem unfair to review them for a quick sale. Outright insults should be discouraged or kept to a minimum. Let’s keep it civil please.

To the sellers, if you have an item that is unconventionally priced here, courteously explain why you have done so and don’t insult those who genuinely feel you have gone over the mark.

I wish you all peace and progress.

benedict100:
I want to sell my chandelier. Are you willing to buy?

Do you still want to sell?

majorbravo:
I need the following items.

1. Chandelier
2. Home theatre (tall speakers)
[s]3. 4.5x6 bed frame
4. 6 x 6 bed frame
5. Side stools[/s]

Anyone who has at clearance rates please help a brother out.

Updated

Can anyone pls provide the list of the "calling at" stops from Lagos to Ibadan?

majorbravo:
I need the following items.

1. Chandelier
2. Home theatre (tall speakers)
3. 4.5x6 bed frame
4. 6 x 6 bed frame
5. Side stools

Anyone who has at clearance rates please help a brother out.

Updated

OP your case is an easy one.

Cut off contact with the both of them at once. Give yourself two months away from them and even seeing them.

Then when you return, by then the older one don give up chasing you/or already has a man of her own, you can go after the younger one.

If you can't wait for two months to do this, maybe you are afraid the younger one might find someone during this time then do this:

Link the elder one with one of your senior friends who is good at wooing ladies and make sure they go on a date, then go after the younger one, the younger one would most likely agree to date you especially seeing that her sister's potential future husband is friendly with you.

On the other hand, be careful cos if your friend refuses to date the older one and then goes for the younger one instead and they click, na oyo go enter the matter o.

Thirdly, I won't advice you to do this tho but if you can't find a guy to be genuinely interested in the older sister, then ask a playboy friend to just go after her as decoy, then when you get the younger one, he can pull out.

Valenjay:
lg tall speakers available

Please post pictures, price and location

I need the following items.

1. Chandelier
2. Home theatre (tall speakers)
[s]3. 4.5x6 bed frame
4. 6 x 6 bed frame
5. Side stools[/s]

Anyone who has at clearance rates please help a brother out.

Dear fellow house clearance thread enthusiasts.

I just want to ask a question.

Are things in the country so hard now or is there a specific time of year people sell off their household items? Sometimes we find several things for sale to buy here and other times only few. Recently, there has been a major decline in the number of posts for clearance household items. I see more of fashion wears, phones and accessories which is good too but I also want to make an appeal to home movers, please post your house stuff you want to sell at clearance rates so that we who are looking for household items can buy.

Thanks.

Still available?

Anyone have any of these available for clearance in Lagos? Please let me know if you selling.

4.5 × 6 Bed Frame
Chandelier
Side stools (2 to 4)

sharpwriter:
Chai... E don tey wey Yoruba don dey suffer

But that sh!t will soon stop.

Bro check the federal allocation. The country’s capital used to be Lagos before it was moved to Abuja.

valarmorghulis:
Look what west achieved with the little allocation, awolowo was a great leader, despite the huge difference in allocation, north and east couldn't achieve what awolowo achieved, in sw they were generation x3 of what they generate in east/North yet they gave west little

Based on this report, which region do you think the Federal government was situated? Definitely not in Abuja. So add that value to the 500 SW received.

Need the following:

1. Chandelier Or 2 Standing lamp (projecting light upwards towards the ceiling).
2. Side stools
3. Home Theatre wt tall speakers
4. bed frame 6x6
6. Bed frame 4.5 x 6 bed
7. Indoor Flower decor.


@ me if you have any of the above for clearance sale

Arthur on var-cay-she-on.

Gunayo:
That must have been a terrible experience. Imagine someone telling you to inhale this malodorous for 2 hours everyday for the next 1 month and get paid ₦200000. Will you take it?

Or imagine being her husband and having to put up with it for life without pay, cos I have only ever met one other lady besides her (who is now married) with similar odour and they both fit the same descriptive category. Is this some genetic condition? I’m not sure, but I sure hope there is a cure for it. I couldn’t tell them, I just kept my distance till date.

Gunayo:
You will not kill me with laugh ooooooh. You should have just taken the foam to dry cleaner or dash her the foam and save yourself the stress.

Man, I was so perturbed by the experience. I didn’t know how to get her to get up. I was just pacing about the room aimlessly, visibly uncomfortable. It’s not the normal body odour you get from most people.

This had the makings of burnt lizard flesh mixed with onions/garlic and a hint of marinated rotten sardines. The worst is the smell never fades off even after the source is removed. Unless wiped clean with special chemical based agents.

Tonymegabush1:
Body odor well I can manage that but you see mouth other no be me and you

Trust me, you haven’t really met anyone with serious body odour cos you won’t be able to withstand it.

One half-albino girl came to my room back when I was an undergrad and just lay on my bed to rest while she was waiting for her friend who was my neighbour. I dunno if it’s cos she’s been out in the sun all day from lectures or summat. But the smell was so unbearable. Even after she left. The smell lingered on in the sheets and never left till I washed it twice. I took the foam out to the sun. Cos the smell sank into the foam as well.

I didn’t know how to tell her, cos it wasn’t really my business and I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. But it was painful to note, I almost shed tears on her behalf, cos she was so damn pretty.

SA

Any one got PSVR games for sale here?

majorbravo:
Red dead redemption 2 on PS4 for sale.
Lagos Mainland.
Contact me on WhatsApp via the number on my signature.
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Now available

majorbravo:
I'm in need of the following items.

Home Theatre
Chandelier
Side stools (3 - 4)

Let me know if you got these.