₦airaland Forum

Iceboiking:
Oga don't say what u don't know, I know someone that uses Doogee it's a nice phone too......

That's my opinion. I once bought that make. It was INDEED very crappy.

gewise7:
Please, is it advisable to go for this phone?

No, don't waste your money on Doogee. They make crap phones.

abilityC:
Yes i actually meant locally because to wait again the tire me, i checked Jumia and Konga nothing similar

Search with this:

Adjustable Switching Benchtop DC Power Supply Variable Digital 30V5A

on Jumia

Alsonjecs:
Please pay attention to the quality of [color=#000000]Solar Fasteners[/color] because the panel's efficiency depends strongly on it.

Can you explain more what you mean by the quality of the solar fasteners?

My NG....E package was delivered by Speedaf free...but it was for self pickup which still beats picking it in NIPOST as I paid ₦500 to pick last one from NIPOST.

abilityC:
Congrats, nice setup! Is there any online shop that has the bench power supply? where did you buy yours from?

You'll see loads and loads of bench power supply at AliExpress and Alibaba.

kingphilip:
It's not supposed to be o.

I'm going to DM GTB on twitter tomorrow regarding the issue.

That's a better way to go. Let them explain it and make it make sense!

kingphilip:
Same thing GTB did to me.

I placed order at #490 but they refunded at #480.

Is that supposed to be legal?

What is access bank current naira card rate?

I just got a refund at ₦480/$.

justcallmenuel:
Parallel only

Thanks a lot

ojesymsym:
This 50 inch TV is just 36W, from alibaba. Anyone has any experience importing TV? What option will be better? Sea or Air?
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/50-55-60-70-75-85_62246998341.html?spm=a2700.details.0.0.71d335eb7fjRdg

Go sea. It's cheaper. 120 days ETA. Goodluck

justcallmenuel:
12v 1.87kwh felicity lithium battery available, #210,000. Call/WhatsApp me on 08168986461

Can you connect this battery in series or only in parallel?

jackson44:
All shades of scam was boldly written on the seller . He was the first to lure me to WhatsApp ,instead of the other way round . We negotiated via WhatsApp ,oya create contract agreement on alibaba. The werey said nope.

He's even rude, just ignore the yeye person and look for other sellers. Alibaba got sellers as many as millions. Check out other sellers.

jackson44:
Abeg my people I need help to understand this . I have been trying to get cloth from alibaba since Monday ,and all seller I meet there have been telling me to make payment outside Alibaba and won't agree to create order via Alibaba. Isn't this trace of scammers?

Don't deal with such sellers, all genuine sellers do not try to make you pay outside of Alibaba's platform especially if you are a first time buyer.

FYI I've made payment outside of Alibaba's platform, but that was my fourth time dealing with the seller.

My post shipped by SG (free shipping) got delivered today by FedEx free of charge

When FedEx called, I thought they got the wrong person

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