₦airaland Forum

odimbannamdi:
Guys, how do you make payments now, considering the 20usd limitation?

Since I don't have a SC account, I use black market rate to fund my dorm for transactions. Life goes on.

bbally:
Nipost should refund him the value for the phone. lobatan

NIPOST that will shift the blame to the guys at customs? I've lost item which up till now I'm still getting the "come today come tomorrow" tactics that most public agencies employ when they want to frustrate you into giving up.

Auskyd:
Omo my package has arrived like 7 days early oh.

Cheeeeeee.

Thanks Me.ister for showing me road!!

Did you use DHL

searay:
So this simple math. A purchase of about $55.32 was charged over ₦30000

Please which bank is charging this ₦550 per $?

brainware:
I've been getting this throughout today trying to checkout.. I just weak

Follow the instructions on the screen.

FireTheSun:
My understanding is that, as a Seller, you will consider how much it takes to get your goods to the Buyer's location and charged "Delivery", based on that. if a Buyer is happy with the Delivery amount, he will buy your product and pay in full.
it is now your Obligation to now ensure the goods get to the buyer, after you have received that full payment (Goods and transport).

What l have never seen in my over 25yrs of buying things Online, is the Seller with-holding the Buyer's goods and telling the Buyer to either offer more Money or he (the seller_ will confiscate such Goods (obviously for re-sell at a higher price, due to inflation) and offer a Full Refund to the Buyer, without factoring-in LOSSES like Time Value of Money, inconvenience to the Buyer, Wait time, etc, which can also be monetised!
You are asking me to pay Extra $99 (after almost four Months since Full Payment (Goods and Delivery Cost), to pick up my items at your Shipping Agent's Lagos Warehouse, . Is that a favor to me or should l be jumping up at that and yet you are treating me as if l did not pay for what l ordered.
Even the Agent was so rude, he will just cut-off my conversation and say: "Go and meet your Seller, l dont have time"! Imagine!!
Am l supposed to be begging these people to collect my goods, something that , going by the terms of our "Trade Agreement terms", it should be dropped at my Door, which is what l agreed with Selina but now, she has changed everything and still threatening me!

Why cant we figure out a "sale's process", from beginning to the end, Cost it and then ensure we keep to our words, once we make a Sale on it?
Si this other people's experience?
Solar/Renewable Energy Family, please feel free to comment on this issue.
I am still in-shock.
This sort of extremely Poor Customer Service is what irks me a lot.

They have really poor customer service and obviously are not business savvy. To forestall this from happening, my shipper will tell you the cost of shipping when the goods arrive Naija. Which means they have the financial muscle to pay for the shipment themselves and only bills you when they've factored in all expenses incurred within that 4 month wait period.

This is not to say they'll slap you with outrageous bills, but rather the bills you get depends on how much expense they incurred in clearing the goods which, give or take, is fairly cheaper than most of their competitors. It's a crazy way of doing business, but so far it works for "em.

But if you agree on a particular price and pay it before they ship, they do not have any right to withold your goods. I'll recommend bringing legal action against them.

That is why most people when giving quote for a contract often slip in the time range clause that that quote is valid; you don't expect a quote done in 2020 to be the same in 2022.

The shipper should've factored in all "unforeseen" expenses on the onset before giving a quote. Now a good business man should incur this additional $99 cost and learn from it. So next time they know to give a quote that will stand the 120-day period between goods leaving China and arriving Nigeria.

FireTheSun:
The purchased items have been cleared since Thursday and in Bestline Shipping Warehouse at Aspamda.
I know it takes time (I paid since December and l figured that it will take 3-4months, which was correct.
What l dont agree with is Suppliers or their Agents just behaving anyhow and slapping fees on a Buyer, just because they have your goods in their Custody.
Up till today, l am yet to receive the Cells l paid for, with $192 for Delivery, in Full.
The $192 was what she placed online on Alibaba, as Delivery charges, and l paid.
Only to get a Bill of #550,000 , to come and pick my Cells.
That was hwy l thought, maybe that Warehouse needs "inspection".
Even as l speak now, both the Supplier and the Shipper in whose custody the Cells are, have gone "silent and not responding" to my Chats, just because l asked them: What is the exchange rate for the Extra $99 you are requesting for, since you have provided a Naira account to pay into. No response, in the last 45mins or so. How should that be a problem for a Supplier/Shipper, to the owner of the goods?

It is just annoying when people "agree and seal a Sale", then the Seller comes back to ask for more money from the buyer. If you think there should be "variation" in a Contract, then you should alert the Customer from day 1, so his mind is prepared and it does not appear as if you are just trying to blackmail and extort the buyer

I think we will do an X-ray of this transaction, very soon, for the benefit of other unsuspecting Buyers.
A member here warned me about how much trust l am putting in Selina Li of Shenzen New Dery Energy Company, which is the Chinese Seller on Alibaba, from whom l bought the Cells but l just felt, well, she has not done anything for me to agree with that assessment, so l trusted her all along.

This is a terrible behaviour, which luckily, I haven't encountered.

I've bought more than 80 cells from Alibaba and I often use shipper that is totally not related to seller. All the seller does is ship to my shipper. That's all. Once goods arrives in Nigeria I pay the shipping fees. I don't allow sellers to get me shipper or even use those shippers at Alibaba. My method has more risk as there is no escrow, the shipper can decide to "chop" your goods. Lol. So far, the only negative behaviour is when one of the shipper took 7 months to deliver my goods. It was a very trying period as he held goods worth a lot of money for many months with him giving me one excuse after another. But he finally delivered on the 7th month.

Most of these "Chinese-Nigerian" often think money grows on trees here. One told me to pay $142 to ship a 1.2kg item. I wonder what they think we do in Nigeria...maybe mint dollars?

FireTheSun:
Infact, l am currently having a similar issue about this "Perfidy" of some Nigerians, with the Group-Buy of LiFePo4 cells which l talked about, some Months ago.
The matter will mature properly tomorrow, incase l have to take Soldiers to the place, to make the guys there behave themselves, as it appears that this "mentality of anyhow", has entered into every facet of our lives.

Let me wait till tomorrow and see how it pans out.

Sea shipping takes up to 4 months. You may have to be more patient before involving dem soldiers.

NiyiOmoIyunade:
I would not readily mix Victron with SMA in this scenario. The kosher combo is Victron DC Coupled with Fronius AC coupled on top

Oh, you can use both if the AC coupled system is totally separated from the Victron system which one can easily achieve. This is a system I've seen live in action.

ceaser:
You took this right out of my mouth. But now that this has worked, he should plan for a version 2.0 with much improved features and great aesthetics. You Tube videos abound even videos of those that built their own bike frames from scratch.

There is this ongoing debate on twitter on most Nigerian's artisan love for lack of aesthetics/mediocrity. There was even a whole lecture by that late prof (Pius Adesanmi) that died in that ill-fated Boeing 737 Max crash in 2019.

Here a twitter link of the lecture:

The Parable Of The Shower Head, One of my favorites by Prof. @pius_adesanmi RIP #PiusAdesanmi pic.twitter.com/1OIGFiBQjD

— Adeola Fayehun (@AdeolaFayehun) March 11, 2019

We don't bother much on aesthetics, you need to see the issue I once had with an artisan for not wrapping a cable back with the cable spiral wrap (attached below) that came with it. He said and I quote, "Will the lack of spiral wrap make the cable short circuit or not work?" Lol. He was willing to let it dangle anyhow as long as it works.

theForth:
So far so good, I am enjoying every bit of it only that the left buds doesn't fit perfectly, it hurts my ear.

Have you tried experimenting with a different eartip size to see if it'll be more comfortable?

genius43:
Sorry for your ordeal.

Thanks a lot.

genius43:
Where did he state that NIPOST Stole it? He said he was robbed Abi did we read different posts?

My blood dey hot for NIPOST
But the truth is as I write am

kingphilip:
Pass me the NB2 please.

Lol. Na reserve. The Fiil can fail or get lost, then I'll have something to fall back to.

theForth:
I just got mine now.

Congratulations. Here's hoping you'll enjoy it as much as I did

solasola:
Hi pros. Please I need your inputs. Trying to perfect a system the has the following demands.

Total load is BTW 19-25kW
From 7am to 10pm daily.
Looking at Oversizing panels so that the panels handle sunrise to sunset and the batteries handle from sunset to 10pm.
Earthre.alm, niyiolu....mctfopt, Geo.rgD...etal thanks

This type of load is best designed using both grid tie- generator combo with some sensitive load directly powered by inverter.

For instance, if you can get a 50kw SMA grid tie inverter to handle the heavy load, other sensitive loads can conveniently be handled by a 10kw Victron hybrid inverter running off battery.

Make other chairmen put mouth for the talk

Edit: I didn't see the 10pm..thought it was strictly for handling day only (7am to 6pm) affair.

Moneyboyz:
if I can get BMS with Bluetooth I would buy. I couldn't find one.

I've packed it all together but below is the battery I used, made in India. sold 1k per piece, bulk purchase might be around 850 plus.

Drove over 15km to and fro today with a passenger total weight over 150kg and it's just 1 bar from 3 I used.

I don't know if you will find this battery in Alaba, the person I bought it from imported it personally. if I find the receipt will share his number.

That's cool, your cell looks like some 60 pieces I bought sometime last year @ $1.2 each from China. The pricing of yours is not bad.


BMS with BT feature full AliExpress.

Aesthetics is never most of our priority in this part of the country. We just want it to work

Cheers on your huge bank

theForth:
How has the experience been so far?

I want to get mine today.

I used it for about 6 months, it was awesome. But then I bought FIIL T1XS TWS for $42.70 then I dropped the NB2 (NB2 still very much working well even up till now though I no longer use it). Although the NB2 noise cancellation is much better than that of the Fiil, I just decided to use the Fiil as it more compact and lighter

Moneyboyz:
I was lucky enough to get 256 original brand new Roofer 18650 2500mah battery from Alaba, expensive but worth it and a 67v lithium charger from Alaba.

all through trials and error, my bike now runs smooth, i was impressed at the speed, it's almost as fast as petrol motorcycle.
all thanks to everyone else who gave suggestions.
God bless.

Wow, that's massive.

If you don't mind, can you share a picture of the batteries and the cost for one?

Nothing beats lithium batteries in application such as these. I just wish the BMS has Bluetooth capabilities so you can see what's cooking inside. Cheers mate.

Prechy2Ej:
Thief have done their things, soundcore I just received yesterday after months of waiting Thief stole it

Go and lodge a public report about it. No guarantee they'll do anything about it. They stole my $148 item. I reported it, luckily I got refunded by AliExpress.
NIPOST up till today did NOTHING about it. I ordered the item back and now have received it. I think there is a new crop of thieves in Lagos these days, especially around the custom clearing area that specialises in stealing expensive items. I've never seen this too many cases of thefts that I've experienced this year in all my 9 years of shopping in AliExpress.

Report it, maybe, just a big maybe they may follow it up. But I've given up hope of NIPOST ever doing the right thing in this regard. I prefer these days to use third party shipper (who it appears may have some people at the custom) that ensures goods don't get lost/outrightly stolen (they crudely opened my package and stole its content and made a half hearted attempt at clumsily sealing it back with a transparent adhesive tape). I was once a big fan of NIPOST, but these current stealing of expensive items is gradually eroding my confidence in them.

PoorUgly:
Last year 3. This year 3 again.

I collected refund, what do you want me to do?

The tablet that was cut open and stolen is one such. Since I reported to PMG of NIPOST, what has been done? Nothing!

The NIPOST people are encouraging these thieving lots by doing nothing when theft is reported. Saw a lady crying the other day as her human hair worth ₦120k was stolen, leaving only the bubble wraps it was tied in for her. I know nothing will be done about it. I just hope she gets refunded.

Moneyboyz:
Branded as in reputable brands only.
I shouldn't be worrying about batteries right now sef if not for Igbo boys who sold me fake new SLA batteries.

Any tribe can sell you a fake SLA batteries. Just saying

otokx:
Weather conditions appear to really affect solar panels. This issue of battery quality is an interesting one in Nigeria. I use a MUST mppt.

Renewable energy using PV is a sun business, so weather is a major factor. Cloudy and dusty period are the worse period for optimal performance. But a clear weather with lil dust does increase performance.

Collins4u1:
Hello
Who has paid Custom duty at post office before on imported phone?
Were you given or shown a pay order from custom? The paper that contains the duty fee you're to pay?

I've paid for one, not from NIPOST but FedEx, I got an email detailing the payments to be made. The few I've seen from NIPOST shows the duty on a paper which you are required to pay (often in cash).

Abdullahi4u7:
Thanks.
Can you recommend any trustworthy logistics company?

The ones I bought were copies.

Check out Nonikings. Search Nairaland for em. There is also Chrisvicmall, search Nairaland for em too. I'm sure there are loads of others out there.

Abdullahi4u7:
Thank you so much.
But the shipping is my concern. How do I get them shipped down from Alibaba?

And Alibaba...do they sell known brands like iPhone, Samsung, Oppo and transsion phones?

And are they original phones?

I have once bought two phones from 1688...I still regret it till date.

Thanks, once again.

There loads of third party shippers you can use to ship your phones. You can buy any Chinese made phone in Alibaba. What are the makes of the phone you bought at 1688? What was wrong with it?

If you do your homework well, you'll get great suppliers that sell great phone. I've got some great products off Alibaba. But I did thoroughly research the sellers and products before buying.

anadozie1:
Please how do I buy a phone (Xiaomi or Gionee) on AliExpress? Most ads on the site seems like scam and fake phones.

There are ways to know the real deal.

First is the number of orders that particular product have sold.

Second is to check the reviews, most importantly check additional comments in reviews which shows many days of use of the device eg check attached image for additional comment by reviewer after some number of days of use.



Finally, if you can't seem to understand any of the above, post the link you see for further verification by members of this thread.

meshachdbuzz:
Yes boss

Thanks a lot

50d33q:
Notice cancellation is dangerous on Nigeria road
Thunder fire devil

Noise cancelling earbuds/earphones are dangerous for use ANYWHERE while in public walkways/roads

meshachdbuzz:
Just confirmed access visa card now... I did 289$ for #497.99

Thank you for clearing all the doubts.

Normal card abi?

Abdullahi4u7:
Is it possible to buy in bulk (for commercial purpose) from Aliexpress?

How do I go about it?

Thanks.

If you want to buy in bulk, buy from Alibaba. It's cheaper and they can supply up to any number you wish to buy.

ceaser:
Thanks. I'm registered already with Binance with my sojourn into Crypto. I'll follow the steps you outlined. Hope my previous registration with binance does not preclude a new registration with Reminato?

No, I'm a registered member of more than 10 exchanges, it's a free world. You can register with as many exchanges as you like as each has their own unique feature.