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Good morning and may we be able to afford the beautiful things we want.

Compare and contrast

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Dirkcoyt:
Put yourself in the dealers shoes. The cement business is not even as easy as you think. Today it goes up tomorrow it’s coming down. They’re only struggling with the business too . Some days the loss will be too much the intended profitin future will only balance up and no profit made.

My supplier was lamenting to me then I told him one thing. Look you run a business the people paying ahead are also trying to dump the inflation gap on you to bear the loss. You also need to be smart to dump the loss back at them . Tell your customers you can only hold for 1month , more than that sorry you have to pay more. Why do you intend to pay 3-6 month down without picking it up if not that you’re trying to dump the inflation gap on the not so astute businessman?

those dealers usually pay manufacturers to produce in bulk for them and that's how it's done. No one takes the effects of the inflation because they order bulk goods and sell making profits on my funds.

spyder880:
I have been reading some of our submissions about the possibility of paying for materials with the intention of picking it up later, and the fear that the sellers may refuse to release your complete quantities, or insist on refunding your money and I am getting increasingly shocked here. When has Nigeria become that bad?

I give someone a large deposit running into several millions and he is making some transactions with my money, with the understanding that they will give me my supplies at our agreed price, and I walk in 3 to 6 months later and the dealer refuses to supply me because prices has changed, why did I pay you in the first place? I paid you to hedge on inflation.

In my experience, the dealers are happy that I pay early, they immediately deploy the funds and order heavier quantities and stock them. Most of my dealers are heavy stockists, offloading trailers and in a day. I have a dealer who offload up to 5 long trucks of cement in a day, pay him and he pays BUA, Dangote or Lafarge immediately and your supply is assured. He will be turning the money over till you come for your goods, in my case I just call, give me 50 bags, he will check and say, now remaining 150 bags? I will say, yes. And my goods will be loaded. I pay only transportation and loading charges.

Business is all about integrity, and I cannot be doing business with those I cannot trust, these guys I pay for goods hasn't disappointed me even once in the last 23 years, their children grew up to continue transacting with me, and maybe my children will grow up and continue with the business arrangement, I dont think they will start now to disappoint. These guys know me too, and we have mutual respect for each other. I will give examples.

The time Y16 iron rods jumped from N5,900 to N6,400, I had over 200 rods paid for. The time POP cement jumped from 3,600 to 7,500, I had 140 bags paid for, and I later collected it, even as it took time due to non availability. There are times I pay for 1,000 bags of cement at the same time, and we monitor how I take them, no matter how long ago it is. I just maintain a file to document all such transactions.

I just read these stuff and laugh cause I don't even think it's possible to happen.

Earlier this year, I paid for materials and told the dealer that the client isn't ready to start the job yet. So when I was ready, the dealer didn't have the materials again as he sold out his stock but he directed me to the wholesaler store where he buys goods and I was supplied everything I needed. The price at which he bought it from the wholesaler was higher than what I paid for it. He took the loss with happiness because he knows better. Our businesses have been running smoothly ever since and he must have made that money from me and people I have directed to him many times over.

Thing is that people are usually shortsighted when it comes to business and that's why many won't be rich ever in this life. They forget that a good business will bring several others

KolaShangOne:
After all the wahala, if the seller says he's not selling again and refunds your money..

What will you do?

With or without interest?

See eh, it's good to be a gentleman in business but don't forget how to be mad to drive home a point

And I'm happy to show these pictures. Although they're not too clean but I will be providing more pictures tomorrow.

Meanwhile work has started on the smaller pedestrian gate

KolaShangOne:
There will be fight o..

I paid 500k to cover about 147 bags of cement.

Needed it this week and they only supplied 135 bags because price increased from 3400 to 4000.

After all the whole back n forth.. they gave me only 6 bags more..

where una dey talk this?


You're doing business with my funds for months without giving me interests and you want to tell me you won't supply my goods

sonnie10:
You have a good dealer. Around April this year I paid for 600 bags of cement at #3200 at a dealer to pick up in July. At pick up, price changed to 4K. and the dealer insisted on the difference, which we paid. Like they would say, we moved!
Since then, any material I can’t take right away, I don’t bother with it.

bro na you loose guard oh.

Heaven will fall and meet hell and I will still take my goods without adding a single kobo. If we drag police join,all the expenses will be your additional costs. Goods I purchased two months ago, I just took delivery yesterday and no stories

Good day. I hope you're getting busy.

Happy weekend

Osinbajo what are you?

Dem don cook give you chop.

Imagine taking her home and your dad and a brother and about two cousins don run things with her. Then three of your friends join

Front page something. Hope you're going to eat it

NexGlobal231:
Please who have an idea about this generator, Okayama, how strong is it, is it copper coil? I want to buy it asap, pls i need advice

Google is your best option because the brand is not that popular around here

Please who don buy iron within the week especially in the past two days.


Every engineer should modify their quotation right now. Don't say I didn't tell you

chidi4eze:
Please, how much should be the ideal price for a tank stand for a bungalow. Proposing to have just one jp tank. Thanks.

budget 400,000. But if you go for galvanized pipes,it will be significantly cheaper.

For 400,000 what you get is 4 by 2 H channel for the stand and same for the load bearing. 3 by 1½ for the poline.

Then the basement should be casted with ¾" foundation rods by 3ft long.

But if you have it sunk into the earth,it will cost around 280-320,000 depending on your location and your negotiating skills.

Good luck

And this is how it ended today. Tomorrow we go harder

More photos as we proceeded

So after that, work started proper on the front side. Here are the photos

And now, the gate has been turned and work started on the front.

Second picture is welding of the joints at the front

Close up views of the welding.

If you observe, there are two welding involved.

The first welding was 4mm thick plate on the wrought iron frame. Reason for that is because the pipe can't withstand the intensity of the heat needed for the welding.



Second welding was between the plate and the conjoining pin itself.

Actual welding of the conjoining pins. Initial welding was to hold them in place.

The intensity of heat needed to weld them is very high cause you need to melt the two metals

Welding the conjoining pins. These stuff are what anchors the gate to the concrete casting

Completing work at the back of the gate. I intend to start working on the front designs before 10am today

And this is how we start this morning

BrickDevo:
nurse am when e grow, I will buy @ 50k, but a dog will never be better than a human being, even if the person is without legs and arms. A dog will always be a dog

dog can serve two purposes.

A pet and a good source of protein.

Good morning and please check out my new job

https://www.nairaland.com/6845828/lets-build-beautiful-gate

Betting isn't a poverty alleviation program or business venture.

Go and grind it like we all do in the streets

And in your mind, Buhari cares if South East burns

Please how do we explain to our children all these borrowings without infrastructure to show for it

Wait let me get something straight, even with the civil war, terrorism and political instability, Libya is able to increase her oil production.

When you see a country that means business, you don't need to be told

descarado:
He really made a bad choice then.
Hope he is reading this.

Well done spyder.

on top his own money and house you will NEVER step into or bathroom you will NEVER use.

Chriswazo:
Are these doors cheaper than foreign doors? Foreign will be finer than these ones that looks too local

unless you can afford 100,000 on a 3ft foreign door, this is by far a better option if done with the right wood

If you obey the laws of physics and geography without cutting corners on quality of materials, you can build an Everest.


The Egyptian pyramids and ancient palaces have stood for hundreds of years and thousands for some. They have survived some of the most brutal forces of nature such as tsunami and flooding. They have also survived generations of mankind and we're the most devastating force of nature.

What man can not destroy does not exist