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mosho2good:
Plz how do I contact the customer care for my package

Google "your courier customer care contact"

Zenith is ₦460/$

I hope Emefiele is not here

itsUmohEtido:
Hi guys, when you make an order that had the payment split, how long does it take for such item to be shipped?
I made an order since Friday afternoon and it's still showing "Awaiting Shipment" your order is being processed.
Store name: Xiaomi-Authorized Store

Whether split or not, the payment is still the same thing. The delay has got nothing to do with how payment was made, the package is not just ready for shipping. You can just contact the seller to inquire what is causing the delay to ship. But once I make payment, I don't even bother to check the status until after a week. A seller should even be in more of a hurry to ship, so the buyer can get the item and confirm receipt for AliExpress to release the money.

mosho2good:
I gave it to someone to help me to send the goods to Newark NJ at Nacho and up till now tye goods didn't arrive and whenever I use tye tracking number to check it it will just show me check back tomorrow for updated delivery date that all I've been seeing for the past one month

Contact the courier's customer service team for more update.

Zi:
Please is it safe to buy a unit of chest drawer from (bulky) from Aliexpress? It is for personal use and I plan to ship by sea and wait for about 60 days.

My concerns are: Do products match online descriptions? The size of the product. Are woodworks allowed into Nigeria? What customs duty am I going to pay?

Please this going to be my first purchase on Aliexpress.

You should read and read and read and research about the products you are buying. China produces high quality goods, you'd know because often the cost matches the quality. China is also notorious for selling very low quality goods too, and you can also see that in the price they attached to it. Do not believe the pictures you see as photos may be made to look nothing like the goods in reality. Also remember to ask for dimensions of products you are buying before you buy a product that is only fit for a 3 year old even though the pictures may look like it's meant for adult.

Every seller is out to make a sale, so they will provide pictures that will look great to make that sale happen. I've bought many types of quality goods but I often research the heck out of the goods I'm buying before making that payment. Because once you do, that's it. Nigeria is not the USA where you can easily return goods. If you buy a bad product, I guarantee you that returning it will often cost you more than you paid for it.

If you use a third party shipper, the custom duty is on them. Wood is allowed into Nigeria as it is not a contraband good. If wood is not allowed in, all these HDF, MDF, plywood etc you see around won't be here as they are all imported.

DavisBloom:
Haven't tried it in a so noisy environment, but I'll try that too
Or you want to see for yourself?

Ok, when you do please do update the house

oluwaseyi1759:
I feel sorry for that Keke napep owner.....Write off!

Did the owner even survive the accident should be the big question here.

DavisBloom:
My life P3 is okay
Haven't had issues with calls

Even in noisy environment?

Horladayod1:
With respect to sound, I'll say the earbuds competes, if not beats, many "premium" earbuds with ANC. It doesn't have ANC though.

Call quality has been good. People can hear me clearly and I can hear them in an outdoor environment, even while talking at the bus stop.

Yeah, Speedaf's delivery system is great, at least for now. They're giving people rest of mind to shop on Aliexpress. The Soundpeats Sonic I bought since March hasn't been delivered by Nipost till date.

My next earbud must have a very good call quality feature. That's interesting to see your earbud has great mics to make crystal clear calls in noisy environment.

Mykel51:
Which brand do you recommend ?

Buy Edifier from China

Mykel51:
One ear out of my White Oraimo Free pods stopped charging recently. Is there any solution to that ?

Oraimo is a useless earbud, almost everyone I know have this issue with them or the inability to recharge the earbuds. Return the earbud, if the place you bought it from has any form of insurance, and go for another brand.

SkgeeBoss:
I don lost my edifier X5 charging case

Nearly lost mine the other day, the cabbie was gracious enough to return it.

But when I contacted the sellers I was told they don't sell charging case.

That means you are in the market for a whole new earbud. Sorry for the loss.

Horladayod1:
Shipper: AESS via Speedaf
Order date: 1st of September
Shipped: 5th of September
Departed Country of Origin: 9th of September
Arrived in Lagos: 10th of September
Delivered to Address: 16th of September

Took like 5 days to be cleared from customs.

Great choice. Soundpeats makes great earbuds. How is this compared to earbuds with ANC? Can callers hear you when you are in a typical Nigerian outdoor noisy background?

Speedaf is being back the fun in AE deals with their lightning speed shipping.

WycliffeSMB:
Okay,but if am able to find a way round it with my Debit card, I will be charged at my bank rate, right? (450)

Talk to the sellers, some may agree to split payment while some won't. A friend recently ordered a $233 phone from AE and seller agreed to split payment. Payment was done with three cards. Most won't agree to this, but if you ask many sellers, one will agree.

Bank rate now is between ₦460 to ₦461...I doubt any bank is still running a ₦450/$ exchange rate. Parallel market dollar rate now is now simply unbelievable. CBN should look into it as these guys are hell bent on driving hitting ₦700/$ before the year runs out.

isangjohnson:
Does anyone here have very good used fluke multimeter for sale?

Fluke products can last the distance

16/9/2021

Card Rates

₦461.30/$ Zenith Bank

₦461.68/$ GTB

₦460/$ Sterling Bank $100/month limit...

mosho2good:
I sent the goods through someone and I'm unable to reach the person, I sent the goods to Newark in USA through UPS

I'm a lil confused here. I don't get the timeline of this event. Did you first give someone going to the USA the package, and this person used UPS to ship it?

One bad review can cause you guys to lose thousands of business. But of course, a typical arrogant Nigerian entrepreneur will ignore this bad review and pretend as if they aren't seeing it. Settle the dude you guys are owing if you still plan on doing any business in NL.

debybeautyworld:
Honestly most of these guys abroad are scammers, they open shipping companies to use and scam people here in Nigeria. Very bad!

Writing some government agencies about their fradulent act may make their lives not as cosy as they'll like.

mosho2good:
Please what can I do to the goods I sent to New wark in USA since last month and till now it has been showing this whenever I tried to track the goods.

Which shipping courier did you use? Which country did you ship it from?

Penuelseun:
Go for a stabilizer with wide input voltage, like 50v to 280v like you were advised earlier

Where can one get this type of AVR with 50v as acceptable input voltage?

GTB after charging me ₦460/$ now refunded me ₦440/$ is this not a case for EFCC?

Damn

This has been almost a trend with most trusted startup business in Nigeria. They'll start off very good. People will trust them after a while and then BAM without warning they'll go rogue.

I'll advise OP to institute a court action against them, $1639.47 is some serious capital. He should not let it slide, their arrogance is often one seen in con artists, who often think they are invisible after defrauding their victims.

duality:
How can one know the rates.

I need dollar rate for Access, GTB, Stanbic and UBA.

The surest way is to buy something with their card. Another way is to contact the customer care, but most of the agents may give you a wrong rate.

Anyone have a first hand user experience with the 1More ComfoBuds Pro Bluetooth earbuds?

ceaser:
There is this item that I needed urgently. It was initially on Speedaf but soon it was changed and was unfortunately lumped with others in "combined shipping" under Singapore Post.

So because of the urgency, I re-ordered but ensured I didn't make any other orders until two days after it was shipped to make sure it won't be changed from speedaf and lumped with any new order under Singapore Post.

Well, it has arrived and I've taken delivery of it. Meanwhile the first one that was lumped as "combined shipping" with others on SingPost is still moving like a slug, with no sign of it in the horizon.

I remember the days of fast SG post shipping. These days na wahala.

TheLoneCitizen:
Thank you very much.

I have become very skeptical of the product and seller ratings on Aliexpreess as a result of the picture attached.

I know the product should be fake, as that price is impossible, but how come the seller has a 96% rating and the product is rated excellent.

There are ways to spot fake reviews in AliExpress.

First check the number of sold items vs the number of reviews. They claimed to have sold 158 items but have about 56 reviews...looks fair but that ain't so. If you look at the buyers that really left a review and not just blank 5 stars, you'll notice that they are fewer than 20. Out of that twenty it just happened to be from a particular region...UK. The others are just 5 stars with zero written review...which is often a pointer to "how fake do you want it" in reviews


After that, check the date of the reviews. Most range from 22 Aug to 25th August and they appear all to be from the UK!

Also watch the writing pattern/language used in the reviews. Each review is just a sentence or at most two. They are very vague.

The last red flag is the obvious typos, crazy specs with downright dirt cheap pricing.

Scammers often make their pitch so dull or simply unbelievable so that anyone who actually believes it must have pretty low IQ or just plain greedy. Lol

anozie09:
China sir

Ok. Try Nonikings: https://www.nairaland.com/1819824/newly-found-shipping-agent-china#24807137

Ignore the Nigerian number in the link above... WhatsApp chat the Chinese number that ends in 2441 for current rate. You can see the time of post in the link above...it's been a while

anozie09:
Good evening boss. I know you don’t recommend third party shippers (that’s why I’m using a dead thread) but can you just help me any/some you know? I need to ship some products with my agent at superbuy as their shipping is outrageous. I’ll definitely do my research before using anyone. Thanks

CC: mctfopt

Which country is the purchase been made from?

TheLoneCitizen:
Thank you very much. That's the main drawback of ordering: the lottery of our customs.

How about the delivery agent to pick up the package, how much do they charge for a mobile phone? Or can I pick myself?

Most items (even if it's not a mobile phone) has some payment charged ranging from ₦200 to ₦1000 if routed via the post office. But if you get lucky and Speedaf are the guys delivering it, you'll get it for free.

That one is never a problem, the problem is the crazy custom duties

TheLoneCitizen:
I'm new in this, so please don't be offended. Does this mean if the phone offers free shipping, I will not be charged?

Are custom charges only applicable with DHL?

Free shipping by AliExpress sellers means they won't add extra cost for shipping. Mind you, some free shipping are not really free. Some sellers just add the cost of shipping to the item's cost. Hence it appears as if the shipping is free.

So, AliExpress won't charge you further for shipping, but you still stand a huge chance of paying high custom duty, which has nothing to do with AliExpress, but with our ever unpredictable Nigerian customs who often attach high custom duties on most mobile phones.

You may get lucky and not get charged. No one can really tell if you may or may not be charged. A trial will surely be the best way to find out. Cheers

@Mod can we have a blacklist please?