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His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by onismate: 3:12am On Apr 04, 2015
The android hype was high that I was enticed to start thinking of getting a new phone, android OS precisely. Few of my close friends are using android phones. But I began considering my pocket. I want to change my phone, I wanted a cool android phone but I didn’t know which make.

Even though some few I had seen had been complaining of how android phones sucks that data. But I was determined of getting one. I want to join the league of android users.

One Tuesday morning, I was in the class when a friend of mine approached me that he wants to sell his phone. And it was android phone, HTC OneV. I jumped up from the chair I was seating, like a child who his mother just returned from the market with a cup of ice-cream for him. “I want to buy it,” I screamed at him. We negotiated till it got to N10,000 and he agreed. The phone was still clean and sizeable. I love my phones note too large in inches. I got it. “I am now an android user,” I thought to myself.

I began using my new Htc OneV android phone. I love the sleek nature of the phone with great camera capture and brightness that makes picture quality taken so clearly amazing and admirable. Even though it has low memory that makes the phone easily hangs, battery life drains faster and it easily gets hot and hangs. But still, I stuck to it. I so much love the camera quality that virtually all events I find myself, I took pictures that makes people wants to steal the phone when they go through my photo galleries. It made couple of my friends start buying Htc phones. They go for Htc desire series, which is higher that my small OneV. Well, I had no money to go for a higher one. I was still managing my Htc OneV, praying and hoping that God should provide someone that will just bless me with their latest Htc M8. As I was praying and hoping that I got a new Htc phone, my junior sister who is into event planning came visiting. She didn’t just go empty handed. The only thing he took was my Htc OneV. I had promised to get her a phone but when I didn’t have money, I had to lay low. It really hurt me how she collected the phone. She had been eyeing it for a long time. She took it and left my sim and memory card on my table. Not after seeing her off that I came back and discovered it. It was a blow to me. My fine Htc OneV was gone.

I began strategizing, planning on how to get a new phone, Htc make precisely. I have fallen in love with the Htc brand. And Htc M8 was my target. I began saving money. 6months gone, I was yet to save up to N3,000 for my Htc m8 phone. My education was diverting my money and I was just left with a non-browsing phone. I had missed surfing the internet for a long time. I had missed taking photos. I planned on using my next semester tuition fees to buy my dream phone but I began thinking it would be a bad idea.

I was returning from school one evening when a friend of mine approached me. He said one of his friend was in need of money urgently so he wants to sell his Htc m8 he just bought. I hissed at him because he approached me at the wrong time. I didn’t have money to buy the money. He told me it was just N20,000. “N20,000,” I screamed in surprised. “Can I see the phone,” I said to him. He brought the guy and the phone. The phone was still clean and “brand new” was written all over it. The owner said he bought the phone some 2 weeks back but he was selling it because he needed money urgently. Well I told them that I can’t afford N20,000. The owner asked how much I can afford. I told them I could 0nly afford N8,000. In fact the money sef, is not with me but I would have to borrow it. I was determined to borrow money to get that phone. I didn’t want the opportunity to pass me buy. I considered the incident a great opportunity.

The guys said I should try and make it up to N10,000 and they would give me the phone. The phone would be mine. That was how I began looking for money ooo. I went and borrowed N10,000 to get the phone. The phone and the charger were handed to me. we tested it and everything, app was working normally. I was so happy that I had gotten my dream phone, Htc M8. I never knew that buying that phone was acquiring problems, debt.

I got home and inserted my browsing sim and browsed for about 2hours. The phone was giving me “battery low” signal. Fortunately, there was Electricity. I plugged my new Htc m8 phone to power source and went to sleep. I slept for 2 hours, woke up to make use of the phone only to discover that the phone was off. I switched it on but it refused to on. Unfortunately, the phone was so hot. ‘Chaiii, I don enter one chance. Have I been duped or was it a fake phone?’ were thoughts and other thoughts running through my mind.

24 hours gone, my new phone refuse to on. The screen was blank after charging for hours. I was so devastated that I returned it the seller. The original seller of the phone told me that he can’t return my money to me. I told him I don’t want the phone again. he said he can only escort me to where he bought the phone but will not return the money I paid to him. Well, I followed him to the shop he bought it and they said they never gave warranty for the phone. For God’s sake, how can there not be warranty for a phone like that. They said what they could do was to take it to a repairer in which they did. Well, we followed him and when the repairer opened the phone, we discovered the shock of our life. Lumps of eba were used to glue some wires inside the phone. Stones and sands were also found inside the phone. The guy repairing the phone said he needed a sum of N32,000 to make the phone start working perfectly. And I asked myself how much I used in buying the phone that I would cough out N32,000 to repair it. The main guy who bought the phone that sold it to me said he wasn’t ready to spend a dime. That means I and the phone are on our own.

I was so pained. I began regretting. I had been duped. I was given a fake Htc m8 that lasted for just about 3 hours. I just wasted my money. Not really my money but the one I borrowed, putting me into debt.

Well, now I have started seeing advertorials online of the Htc One m9 which is out and I would seriously love to have it. But where is the money. It took me months to save a few thousands of naira which didn’t even get up to 5% of the amount of m8. Now the One m9 is out, I hope it won’t take me years to save up to the amount of the phone. And I also hope the one I would get, fufu or amala or even egusi won’t be found inside.

http://www.hovabuzz.com/frontline/982-my-htc-story-the-mobile-phone-machine-i-desiredi-that-got-me-duped

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 4:13am On Apr 04, 2015
Too many distraction in the story.

Would have been a good story,if it had been summarised.

Bottom line,you were sold a fake phone,right?

Good to know,Next!

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 4:37am On Apr 04, 2015
lol sorry dear.
u shouldn't buy something u can't afford just bkus ur friends have them.
as lng as the fone u have can browse, snap, video, and make calls/text msg, ur good to go. then when u get money, u can opt in for a bigger one! and pls stop buying fone from all these aboki alahajis and nnewi boys! they sell f.a.k.e fones, with no warranty.

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by khassy(m): 4:55am On Apr 04, 2015
summary please
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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by YabaLeftist: 5:02am On Apr 04, 2015
Fake story! The phone was working perfectly when you bought it, with all the apps in order. Then suddenly developed fault when you got home, tell me another lie.


The fufu and stones were inside it when it when it was working, then all of a sudden the phone packed up. undecided

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by xtervaganza(m): 5:10am On Apr 04, 2015
This tori get k leg oooo




How is possible; a phone with fuf as it's panel working when you bought it?

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 5:21am On Apr 04, 2015
This piece should serve as a warning to all does broke and greedy guys eyeing high end phones when na their papa still dey feed them.
The story is probably made up.
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Osyxcel(m): 5:22am On Apr 04, 2015
OP, go and learn how to cook stories very well.
This story has "fake" written all over it.
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by GetUmad: 5:29am On Apr 04, 2015
@ OP, even my own battery went flat while i was trying so hard to get the point of your story. Its like reading an editorial.


Pls summarize. Too lengthy.

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Warlord3000(m): 6:06am On Apr 04, 2015
Nothing beats buying Fufu and getting home to make vegetable soup with it.. Ntooorr tongue

Enjoyment sure pass cheesy

anything that looks too good to be true... Feels too good to be true.. Sounds too good to be true.... IS ACTUALLY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

Learn to curb your greed... Ntorr tongue

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by ednut1(m): 6:43am On Apr 04, 2015
lies
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 6:44am On Apr 04, 2015
This's wht I call Rocket science on NL, d only tin I understand is that some one was duped.
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by donjuviam(m): 6:57am On Apr 04, 2015
With deep reasoning, I later realized that you are a thief. How can you buy m8 for 10k...that's the NEMESIS guy enjoy it to the fullest

Busy cooking my banga soup

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by morhsuud22(m): 7:00am On Apr 04, 2015
YabaLeftist:
Fake story! The phone was working perfectly when you bought it, with all the apps in order. Then suddenly developed fault when you got home, tell me another lie.


The fufu and stones were inside it when it when it was working, then all of a sudden the phone packed up. undecided
The phone was produced by fufushima of langzhou district in china...#op is high on cold water

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Emeka71(m): 7:20am On Apr 04, 2015
I don't know what is in all these android phones that you people worship.
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by ITbomb(m): 7:38am On Apr 04, 2015
You no get money, you wan carry big phone small price
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by omanifrank(m): 8:02am On Apr 04, 2015
na wa o
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by DONADAMS(m): 8:02am On Apr 04, 2015
lol...na normal thing 4 ikorodu here
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Monogamy: 8:02am On Apr 04, 2015
Pinshure or I don't believe
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by spellingcheck(m): 8:02am On Apr 04, 2015
grin
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 8:02am On Apr 04, 2015
One chance cheesy
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by ajayiopy: 8:03am On Apr 04, 2015
Na only fufu? you no c soup inside
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 8:03am On Apr 04, 2015
At last





E don red for u
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by intergral(m): 8:03am On Apr 04, 2015
That moment when you tell us a fake story that was so funny that we even forgot to laugh...

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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by magicfingers009: 8:04am On Apr 04, 2015
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Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 8:04am On Apr 04, 2015
Op sorry for your loss.

Please I want to use this medium to ask Nigerians to support APC candidates in the forthcoming GHA elections. Thanks. Martins301
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 8:05am On Apr 04, 2015
[size=13pt]Next time, OP.....try Jumia! And SLOT![/size] smiley
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by shadelek(m): 8:05am On Apr 04, 2015
Its not funny at all. Something like this is common in computer village at Ikeja. It happened to a friend of mine in the year 2009 during the time of Nokia 3110c. My advice is not to allow them to do the packaging coz if that happens, my brother O.Y.O lowa
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by loomer: 8:05am On Apr 04, 2015
Which kind lond story be this, na who wan read am
Re: His Experience And How He Bought A Fake Mobile Phone With Eba Inside by Nobody: 8:05am On Apr 04, 2015
HotLink285:
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Er...wot?

And about that attached advert....hope you have informed your parents about the type of job you are doing. I am sure they would be happy for you and thank God for your life.

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