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solomon111: Any graduate Engineer that can't teach further-mathematics is a fraud.

Bro u said it all. Imagine someone saying that what does an elect elect grad have to do wit further maths. That is real fraud.

To be continued soon....

Now having used d 14 inch TVs I brought along to display games. I tagged a price of N10k on each of those TVs. People dat saw the liked them. They were impressed because they were only used to china products. By this time, i went to uyo to retrieve d decoder I submitted for repairs. I couldn't imagine that one of the customer care operatives was telling me that I had 10 days subscription left of which they promised to suspend the account so that my money won't be charged. At d time d decoder developed fault, I had only subscribed three days ago. I was charged one thousand naira for service charge and took d decoder back to d viewing centre. I remembered d first match i wrote on d board was Livpul v Newcastle last season and I decided to advertise it as free knowing that i had only chelsea, man u and arsenal fans. Other matches do not have spectators except me. That match was watched by almost everybody numbeing about 100. They enjoyed d match to d extent that some of them that had never been a football fan joined to watch d next match. That was a super eagles friendly last year. I made 3.500 from d match. I showed a couple of matches in d weekend and realized about 5k. I added money to subscribe for d following month. Formerly, before d setback dat took me back to lagos. I do get fans but not as much as i have them when i returned. Chelsea was d most loved club and make 1500 on any of their matches except champions league which is higher: 3k. Man u 1k and arsenal 500. I constructed two more boards with a lot of bench worth 20k. I placed one in d market square and one at a junction having more residential houses.The patronage almost immediately increased after this. Having seen that it worked, i discovered many of them come from far distance and do not use an internet enabled phone. So i created a txt document of d fixtures and also wrote dem out on a paper and paste in strategic places. This reduced my work because at times even when i didn't write fixtures they come automatically.

yea i know but they can never get it as cheaper as i give them. If i list out d expenses and stress involved to bring them coupled wit d fact there's no enough capital you'd pity me alot. I'm very open to them and many times i tell them d truth but since they don't have any option they buy my goods.

Naaah i was going to talk about that until u raised it. See i've moved round to compare prices and i discovered dat d china version of d phones i sold were marketed at very ridiculous price e.g someone bought a refurbished nokia C1 for #8.5k. Thats a phone i do sell at just 5k, d original. That guy regretted it and later gave me customers. It's about ur bargainin power and whether i need money at d time or not.

inwangobio: hmmmm, very interesting but dont u think the profit margin is much? anyway am happy for ur biz prowess. those are my peopleoooooo, pls take it easy with themoooo.

boron10: Zakariyau carry go jare, nothing do you

Ben is that u? Interesting. Some of my friends had been wanting to know what i was going thru especially d corps members posted here, so i needed a page dat i can always direct them. Thats why i openned this thread

Now after i returned from lagos. The football die hard fans in d area and neighbouring villages instantly heard that i had arrived. They told me how much they missed watching football matches. I was happy in the fact that a non football crazy community could start missing matches. So i started promoting my PS2 game. The children playing it like never before. I ended up making N1,000 on PES 2 alone that day. Since i didn't come wit cash, i had to sell the phones i came wit plus the CD plates i bought. I started playing d movies that i brought in d shop. Instantly customers started resurfacing from nowhere. At times i would be going home and i'd be getting one request or d other. I bought those plates at d rate of N50 each and sold at N100. In just one week, I had sold CD plates worth N5000. One major thing that endeared me wit d people is my ability to speak d language. Everywhere i go people speak d local language to me. With d local language, i told them i had gone to lagos to buy phones for sale and also CD plates. I told them in fact i do go to lagos to buy anything i know is of use to them. So i showed them my phones, plates, electronics and other gadgets that i came with. Now i started getting people requesting about my phones. I bought one nokia 6600 at N3000 and sold it 6k. Nokia N70 dat i bought N4.500 i sold at 8k. Thank God i bought three. Indigenes bought one and corpers bought the other ones at d same rate. The interesting thing is that they got to know as a result of the posters i put around d shop. I sold one blackberry storm 2 at 20k which i bought 11k. I bought one loader cd at 6k with speakers which i sold 11.5k with the guy seriously begging me. I had sold several things double their prices and each time i get people requesting for d same products i had sold to others. The buyers gave me lots of customers before u know it, it had spread to other local govt that there's a corps member that sells phones and electronics at an affordable price. So i have people coming in as far as uyo, d state capital, coming to check on my goods. Although at this time i was left wit little products. I will come back to narrate d remaining story...

Thank you. Now i know someone somewhere is reading this. now i continue

Chapter three: My pains and challenges
- I was making less than 10k monthly which was not good enough knowing dat at d end of d month, i would deduct #10,000 for subscription. This made me go hungry. I hardly eat 2 square meal daily and when i did, it's basically one plus several doses of garri. I was growing frustrated but i knew it was going 2 be better one day.
-Power surge in d dstv decoder meant i couldn't show matches nov 2011 just when i had started getting customers. I took it to multichoice office in uyo and was told i had to drop it 4 it to be taken to their office in portharcourt. This took two weeks. At d time i had freshly paid subscriptn fee in2 d decoder. So i was left wit no money and no income.
-Hunger and frustration was my lot. I went to a private school 2 seek a teaching job but d pay was disappointing plus i needed some run around cash. 5k was what d school agreed to pay. I had been teaching in the school for 10days when i discovered they don't pay salaries as at when due. Some teachers were owed 3months salary. I stopped going again. There was a friend i knew while working as a ARO I(assistant reg officer) d previous year. I went to visit d guy in inen abasi atai in oruk anam local govt, same location as my business. I stayed wit d guy who's staying with his parents. The mum would prepare food for us mostly in d evening. Since she never knew i was going thru financial turmoil, she thought perhaps i had d cash 2 take care of myself. I was somewhat an introvert and didn't disclose my problem 2 those i knew would do nothing. The name of this my friend is Etimbuk.
-The decision to travel to my parents hit me which i was hitherto avoiding. But knowing that staying extra time in the village not earning income and had to depend on others other than my parents was equivalent to wasting my time and future. So i returned to my business area. To borrow money in this present day nigeria,ain't fluke. But there was a guy by name ettebong, he borrowed me 6000# to be able to travel back to where i reside wit my parent. Before this time, i was owing others close to 6000#
-Journey home. I was able to travel to lagos and my parents were so happy to receive me. I never bothered to explain my problems to my parents while in akwa ibm since it was my decision to stay instead of me to go take govt job in sokoto state, my state of origin . So they taught all was well even though they had seen that i had emaciated a whole lot.
- I told my dad d problem. He was so sympathetic and he gave me #50k to go ahead with my plans. I thanked him greatly and a friend of his lent me 20k. Wit 70k, i thought d money would not last long when i reach, so i decided to buy four 14 inch tv at d rate of 6.5k plus. I bought some belgium phones and went to alaba and bought CD PLATES worth 15k. Then i travelled back to my business area around december.
I will come back to narrate d remaining story. But i need to know that someone is reading this. Your comments will greatly boost my moral to go on.

how much be d last price?

The next chapter is about my challenges and shortcomings and how i managed it.

Chapter 1:The start
I saved N130,000 mostly from my nysc allawee and inec parole at the 2011 elections and registrations.I got a spacious hall that has a capacity of 150people for a bargain fee of 10k every year. U can't get it cheaper than that. I bought a 29 inch CRT at 15k, two fans at N8,500, new tiger Gen 13.5k, DStv decoders 16k and 25k, ups 5k, bench 30k, electrical work 4k, PS2 game 12k, 21 inch tv, cables 2k, 2 extra gen 12k belgium, sumec 2700.
Chapter 2: The momentum
The time I started showing d football season has ended. So i started d 2011/12 afresh. The patronage was low at the beginning and the highest i do get is 1000naira. Subscriptn fee was 10k and 4 most of d season i hardly get 9k and i accumulated a lot of debt 4rm buying petrol and subscriptn fee.

Yes my fellow nairalanders am back from d derby match. Now i will begin to highlight my experience chapter by chapter. Please is anyone reading this post?

Let me go show Man city v Man u 2.30pm. Last season i made 2500 naira on this match. But the patronage means i can make up 4k. Later.

My name is Nasiru. I finished my NYSC service in akwa ibom state where i served in a secondary school located in ikot okoro. While serving, there was no place to watch football matches because the nearest viewing centre was very far and entails me to sleep at the area that has d viewing centre. Three months before my passing out, i finally decided to set up a viewing centre in that same village i served. That was in April 2011. Fast forward to 2012, I am begining to make profit from it and recently i am dedicating my whole time to making it real big. I had wanted to post my experiences long ago cuz i had been a nairaland member since 2009 but could not login to my old account cuz i could not remember the password. I know there are other corps members or ex corps members doing business in their places of primary assignment. Please if u are one, lets hear your successes and shortcomings. I will come back to post my experience. Lets hear from u as well. Brb.