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FEGEITOK:The original post you initially quoted shows a Schneider Conext SW inverter which is not a hybrid inverter, that is, it does not contain an inbuilt solar charge controller so you cannot connect solar panels directly on it. If you are planning on purchasing this awesome inverter and plan on using it with solar panels, you should also purchase a separate solar charge controller to handle that part of the system. I'm currently using random Chinese solar panels at the moment. Currently, it is performing ![]() |
FEGEITOK:Go ahead, 100% recommended. |
Oldboss:Not that much, it depends on what you are buying and the seller. |
WaytoGo:Do you agree with the dispute arrangements by the seller that is asking you to wait for the item. If no, decline. If yes, accept. But once I open dispute, whatever the seller says that doesn't go down well with me (that doesn't get me my refund) gets declined. |
Prince202020:Those guys (NIPOST) charge for every item received in most of the POs around the country. Luckily, of late, it's just me and Speedaf and I'm loving it ![]() |
Kaido:Use your address, the shipping agent decides if to use Speedaf or NIPOST |
Namzy:See if you can replace the damaged part. Try Alibaba if all fails here. Bought a part in Taobao to replace a damaged charger that I was unable to fix here. |
durodee:308v? WTH!!!! ![]() |
Chuksteric: mctfopt: mctfopt: |
odimbannamdi:I don't chat on WhatsApp with Alibaba sellers except "my guys". I've noticed that if things go south, WhatsApp chats are not admissible as Alibaba cannot ascertain the authenticity of such evidence. I still think you'll spend more than 35USD to return the package to China, unless you are going the NIPOST route that takes ages to get to China. That not withstanding, go ahead and open your dispute. I don't think you have any other option at this point. Open it in all the invoices as the dispute payment is based on the amount seen on that particular ticket |
odimbannamdi:Sorry about your predicament. I've gotten a refund from Alibaba but not from Alibaba. My seller get small sense, offered to change the faulty product without me putting any official effort. I guess I got lucky, I hate when some sellers tell you to repair things as if Nigeria is like China with loads of bad ass repair people who do cheap repairs. Eg when one of my ebike twist throttle was acting up, contacted one of the seller and he told me to take it to an ebike shop. Lol. How many people use ebikes in Nigeria to warrant a shop and guys capable of running repairs for it? I later found a fix and DIYed the issue. Though the seller later offered a throttle but told me to pay for shipping. For your case, go ahead and open the dispute. With enough evidence you may just win. Just that dispute resolution is sort of dicey in Alibaba when compared to AliExpress. But I no longer do business with sellers at Zhèjiāng Province, I prefer sellers from Guǎngdōng Province. Guangdong sellers has higher quality product and more quality, which often comes at a slightly higher cost, compared to the often lower quality product from the Zhejiang province. I learned this lesson the hard way. |
burner44:Speedaf is on steroids... got a package I ordered in 13 days. They are doing well. |
felaliveson:Every battery (both lithium and lead acid type) will explode when overcharged. By the way, lithium iron phosphate battery (LiFePo4) is not prone to explosion. In my early days, I once have overcharged it several times without it exploding. Just that such behaviour is a sure fire way of drastically reducing the life span of the battery. |
Mansoor001234:Check the various threads and read reviews. |
umarfantami:There are businesses who ship on behalf of a buyer. They operate in these two major ways: 1) You pay for your item, and ship to their address (usually local to where you are sourcing the item- China, USA, UK, Dubai etc). They charge you for shipping to your country (Nigeria in this case). 2) You send web link of item you want to buy. They bill you for both buying and shipping to your country. Some who procure sometimes have service charge fees separate from the shipping fee charge. Here are some third party shippers: 1) https://www.nairaland.com/4755234/buy-ebay.com-1688-taobao-alibaba do some research here as many no longer active 2) https://www.nairaland.com/1819824/newly-found-shipping-agent-china#24807137 I'm not sure of the other numbers, but I'm sure the one that ends in 2441 is still available on WhatsApp 3) CHRISVICMALL 4) HEROSHE 5) COLALA Plus a host of others too numerous to mention here FYI: Do your due diligence before transacting with any of the above mentioned business as I am in no way endorsing their business. Thank you. |
umarfantami:If you can, I'll recommend you use a third party shipper as they have ways of bringing in stuff like iPhone without paying crazy custom duties. The custom duty for iPhones varies, but the few I've seen is never small. I've seen a guy pay ₦80,000 for iPhone X. He was furious as it was a gift sent to him by his bro. You may get lucky and receive your item without custom duty fee. But the postal agencies always have a thing for Apple products, they love to give em hefty custom charges. |
HilcomTech:Em... check these links and do your own research 1) https://www.nairaland.com/712408/free-air-satellite-tv-general/2265#106797547 2) https://www.nairaland.com/4403417/shop-ship-amazon-ebay-usa 3) https://www.nairaland.com/6324863/buy-ship-usa-india-china 4) https://www.nairaland.com/5485206/dallas-picker-order-goods-via |
dammodee911:The output frequency of your generator appear to be ok. But isn't 275v to 285v too high? Most over voltage cut off devices will cut off voltages above 242v. I think your generator's output voltage is too high and may be the reason the inverter cannot charge on gen use. Consider either fixing the generator's high voltage or getting an AVR. But I think the latter is not really a cost effective fix. |
IRAPADA:Check here https://www.nairaland.com/390522/solar-energy-complement-fta/1127#110414582 |
gadgetplanetng:I just saw it it now. Lol at oporating and "mor". WTF is "imadanco"? ![]() |
gadgetplanetng:Are you afraid it may be these people? ![]()
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Trippledots:A neighbour once used one like that for two years. He still sold it and added money and bought a new one. I still wonder who bought it from him ![]() |
ladykilllar:You may need to edit and type the name in full in case someone searches Nairaland. I have this earbud mine still works well. Nearly lost the case one, but got lucky and got it back. |
paulmarkino:Why not buy Amazon HD 8 (2020) release from Jiji instead of spending the almost same thing on this while running into issues of dollar wahala and goods getting lost in transit plus crazy wait time? At least this is a known brand (I checked out both and they appear to have same configuration) this unknown Chinese brand may just have same spec and perform woefully.
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Trippledots:Well since you say it's a steal, then that's a nice way to get some feet wet in this incredible RE experience. |
Marrvelous:In AliExpress you do less work. Sellers often ship their products. Their MOQ is lower. I've seen great deals in Alibaba but sellers won't talk to me as I only wanted to buy a miserly 20 pieces. The seller has an MOQ of 500. Alibaba is like DIY while AliExpress is like getting it already made. But if you know how to work Alibaba and you are buying many, you'll surely get a cheaper deal at Alibaba. |
Marrvelous:You can check out the following points as a to-do list: 1) Check the review of the item you want to buy, if you can't see it...check other reviews of similar products sold by the same seller. Sometimes I even Google the name of the particular store to check reviews, just in case they have somewhat deleted older bad reviews � If all are good, proceed to No 2 2) Chat the seller and tell them how many MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity) you want to buy. From experience I've seen sellers with MOQ of 1 boldly written on product that I chat up and they'll tell me MOQ is 1000. Also ask them how much they are selling the products, most of the prices you see are often clickbaity in nature to get you to click ![]() Sellers in Alibaba wants to sell in large quantities, they'll often ask if you are buying for private use or whether you are buying for sale. Of course, I'm always buying for sale You know the perceived big buyers get all the perks and benefits. Lol. Remember you can negotiate downwards whatever they tell you. But if they insist that's the last price, that may probably be the last price. 3) Have a means of shipment (sellers will often ask if you have a forwarder in China), because when you chat up seller to enquire about pricing, they'll ask you where you are shipping it to. If you allow sellers to chose a shipping method for you, be ready to pay a crazy amount of money. I've only used a seller's shipping method once, because it was a steal ( $40 using DHL for a 1.5kg item). 4) Chat up other sellers too for same product to see who sells the cheapest. I sometimes chat up to 7 sellers from different part of China selling same goods to get a correct deal, of course I'm never in a hurry to close a deal. Some of the sales rep can be pretty persuasive, but you can't pressure me to make any purchase. ![]() 5) If a seller is very slow in response (note the time difference of 7 hours ahead if you are in Nigeria) I don't usually deal with em because if you run into problems, chances are they won't ever reply again especially after the deal is done. 6) Sometimes ask all the questions about the specs, don't just trust everything you read in the specification are correct. Eg I've chatted sellers and asked point blank if the batteries I'm interested in is used, it turned out it was used but still has about 80% capacity left. Note, this important factor is nowhere written in the description. That is why I often asked questions like these when buying batteries from a new seller: "Are these brand new cells or fairly used?" "Are these grade A or grade B cells?" "What is the total capacity of these batteries after running a test" I'll ask the last question even when I see 200ah written as capacity. You'll be surprised to the answers you get when you ask. But if you don't ask, they often won't tell ![]() 7) Some sellers may encourage you to pay them outside of Alibaba protection, always say no to this. The only time I've paid outside of here was an old customer that I've already had several deals going back years. Lastly, do your research on products you are buying, you'll be surprised to see people selling it cheaper in Nigeria. I never buy a product that I'll get cheaper in Nigeria. I always add the total cost, shipping and cost of product. If higher than what it's sold in Nigeria I won't deal. But in my case so many of the things I buy are not even sold here, or if it's sold here I don't know where to get em. Goodluck. |
Bradiyung:I don't think it will be too much hassles. Just pick whatever you want to pay for, select Western Union as your mode of payment, click confirm and go to the Western Union or FX section of the bank with the payment detail. Give it a try and update the house how it went down. Worst case scenario it wouldn't scale through; you can always cancel the order. Nothing lost. |
chiboyne:Logistics is not like an exact science where 2+2 will always be 4. So each shipping is different even when done by the exact store using the same logistics. Sometimes all you gotta do is wait, if at the end of the day you don't get your package, there is dispute to be opened and refund to be done by AliExpress. |
ayobamizz:I heard ₦504/$ and $50/month limit |
Bradiyung:The only bank that it's naira card can do this payment at once appears to be Standard Chartered bank. Other ways to go about it is to ask sellers to split the payment into two (many will not do it, but correct sellers do) so you can pay with either of Access, GTB or Zenith which currently has $20 limit per month. Or open a dom account and fund it with dollars @₦600+ per $ and buy at once. I have not tried any other means of payment apart from debit card on AliExpress, but I've done Wire Transfer (TT) on Alibaba from a dom account. Also as a side note, on the boot you want to buy kindly check the addition feedback of those that had bought it and used it after some days. You'll be shocked to see some 5-star review drop to 0 star feedback after some days ![]()
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You know the perceived big buyers get all the perks and benefits. Lol. Remember you can negotiate downwards whatever they tell you. But if they insist that's the last price, that may probably be the last price. 