This is really terrible. They did something similar to my brother when I was in Lasu like 10 years ago. I swear, we left with what we paid for. You should have reported to those Market association people.

However, Next time, go to the warehouses in Alaba to get Tokunbo electronics. Most of those guys in the shops are frauds.

Lols na old trick
Was a victim once in 2016 for a 50 inch LG LED TV. After we agreed price and receipt was issued the boy told me it doesn’t work with antenna or dstv decoder. I can only use it with a DVD player. I asked his boss he said that’s true and I was like you guys never told me this before I paid and they were like I didn’t ask. I jejely googled the model number on the back of the TV since they wanted me to pay extra 30k to convert it and found out it was a lie but I never argued. I just told them not to worry I’m going with the TV like that only to be told I can’t go with my 50 inch TV and I should check my receipt that I paid for a 32 inch screen. God so good he wrote a rubbish model number on the receipt. I just kept the receipt well and told him to refund. They said No and I laughed and left them. Called my guys in the barracks and they said I should just come to the barracks so we can all come back. I got to the main road to take a bus but never knew one of them had been following me and the guy started begging I should not go but his boss has been calling me to come for my TV. I laughed in my mind collected it and gave them 2K

femi4:
Oh, so you know acunnon and you didn't go through him. You're now calling him out if he knows the man.

Computer village/Alaba international is not for novice

Computer village nah for the brave . Those guys dey para. If you're not stubborn, you will be scammed left and right.
It almost happened to me this year I wanted to get a PC, I got overconfident say nothing dey happen and followed those street guys (middleman). They took me to one shop and was bringing dead wack laptops, the one Toshiba that was ok was overpriced at 45k and I wasn't prepared to pay more than 40k. I just dey give stupid excuse, I want higher GHz processor etc. I knew it was crap but I boxed in, they were like 4 in the corner shop, I have 40k plus cash in my pocket bulging out. They were eyeing me hungrily, one of them got tired of me and started formatting his laptop that I must buy it since his own is 2.8 GHz processor. We never talk price u don dey format laptop, sharp sharp I calculate dey yawn dey stretch like say I wan collect breeze. I Japa straight up, I stop enter one bro shop omo see this guys follow me enter that shop sha. I was forced to buy from that particular guy, a lower standard than what I wanted cus he was my way out. When we come start dey speak Yoruba, he personally escorted me to where I boarded bus home. Emi ke, mo giran gan. U see those boys on the road that offer to help, AVOID THEM.

sencekompis:


You sound like one of them, supporting thieves with back up ideas, You're morally bankrupt, i can imagine who and what your children will become. GENERATION OF THIEVES, they will surely send all you guys out packing in all Africa countries. OLORIBURUKU SOMEONE NI E. OLEEE!!!

Yes!! you are right! and there is not a damm! thing you can do about it! now you can go stab yourself in the eyes or do ya wanna lick my butthole?

One of these boy boy almost pull the same thing on me with building materials. The funny thing is within minutes all of them go come gather around you defending the seller. My own no funny at all cos I know the way of the street and as one of them put mouth I help am address the mouth very well. Nobody told them before they refund the money when they found out I live on the same street, key advice is to be very aware in this Nigeria oooo, I'm not trying to be tribalistic in this particular matter but Everytime this has happened, we all know those usually involved. One day over smartness go lead to another thing but until then, do business with this kind of people with 4 or more eyes on your side.

Habayomie:

This clearly shows you're also running the same scam.what is greed there!
If a buyer bargain for a certain stuff,and the seller is not okay with the pricing,he can just turn down the price and tell the buyer to try next shop,not to scam him.You guys(alaba boys) have been running this scam for a long time.
In 2012,I dashed my home theater out, then proceeded to Alaba market to buy another set.The guys tested it for me,we agreed on a price,and the gen was switched off.A receipt was written for me,I signed and paid.Told them to wrap it for me,..lo and behold...I was told that I bought woofer only!.
Then the arguments started,I was told to read my receipt,WOOFER only was what was written on the receipt.WTF.
I told them to return my money that I'm not buying again,(for where).I even told them that I will pay 1k for the receipt,(no way).I had to settle with a small home theater system.

Bro with all due respect avoid me. Its no offense to me if you classify "we" Alaba guys as scammers. No insults but some items remain for the elite few. Those who would put down money for a long time item workability. I am proud to be an Alaba boy.

Yeaster brothers and fraud na today?

Qoko:


AlabaConnect or what is your name? there is no iota of greed in pricing a tokunbo electronics in any amount of your choice, I pray you experience this one of this days and you will never forgive your tribe when other tribes are sleepless duping foreigners and not Nigerians like them.

There is whats called pricing to a fault. I do understand what you are saying but most times you just have to have an idea of the likely price of what you want to get or a likely substitute. Let me give you a scenerio. You go to a seller to get an original Samsung 40" smart tv of 85k and you are pricing 50k. Most of these hustlers want to sell so they would want to give you a close cloned substitute at your budget while still making their own profit. They will build on your wanting to get a big item for "SHIKINI" money. I hope you get

ALABACONNECT:
Bro with all due respect avoid me. Its no offense to me if you classify "we" Alaba guys as scammers. No insults but some items remain for the elite few. Those who would put down money for a long time item workability. I am proud to be an Alaba boy.

Lolz....from your reply,you didn't even absolve yourself of my allegation.Rather you choose to dodge.
Your emphasis on Greed sold you out.
I use to respect you alot and your clients will see this too!!!

Kingzeez10:

That doesn't change the fact that the perpetrators are mostly igbos. This is why i don't buy home appliances from igbos

Reading all these and i realized that one Nigeria is probably for my great grand children.

Sorry o!
If snake no swallow another e no go grow

That's one of the reasons why I love my job.... They can't try that with a soldier man!!!

U would have ask for task force office and make an official entry with the union,the matter will be treated accordingly.
The Alaba union management I know very well don't tolerate such unless u are not telling us the complete story

mabeni:
Bros, i was not a greedy type and no be sey i choose home theater wey dey too big.. See ehn, this could happen to anyone without this kind of experience.
I learnt my lessons tho

Oga let me be frank


First mistake was rolling solo for that kind waka.


Never ever go alone. They will use crowd to intimidate you. When you are 2 or 3 dem no for try much.. dem for return your bar. Collect receipt from you.


Never go buy used products solo. All the tales on FP nairaland should have taught you

Habayomie:

Lolz....from your reply,you didn't even absolve yourself of my allegation.Rather you choose to dodge.
Your emphasis on Greed sold you out.
I use to respect you alot and your clients will see this too!!!

Na, you are getting it all wrong bro. I have nothing to prove to you. I'm only stating fact.

Igbo Kwenu

mabeni:
what is wrong pricing a used sets for 25k? If e no gree shey be you tell me no and i go comot go another place. No be sey i dey greedy but na my budget be that.

I just hope no be that same Ben, wey sell bad tv set for me that year, that guy generation go suffer like curse in igodo movie, oh! I remember na sir lefty do am for me, na Saturday, them just tell me say make I check receipt, baba receipts no get address, Television wey I carry go no reach 15k, na him i carry go house for 40k, i reach house cried like a baby, my wife just dey use style console me say e dey okay , i been wan die that day,,, my baby was just looking at me like what's wrong with this man, baba you go take heart ooo. If Nigeria divides today non of the country will be okay, aswear, we all dont care even if na same language. We too bad. Baba carry eye ooo. If you too set waka for Alaba market , those guys go notice you, no too branch too much shop buy wetin you wan buy ,comot, no price too much places, no look for too cheap cus na sende you go carry last.

ALABACONNECT:
Na, you are getting it all wrong bro. I have nothing to prove to you. I'm only stating fact.

I come in peace because no one has ever accused you of scam on Nairaland.But only mad at what those guys(Alaba boys) do.

Eastlink:
Upon the warnings that scam knows no tribe, you are hell bent on blacklisting the Ibos. Do I tell you my encounter in Computer Village in 2016. Where in broad day light and on two different occasions, I was scammed by Yoruba guys. I have noticed something about some of you Yoruba’s here. Not all, but minority among you people. Why do you guys like labelling others bad.

You hardly see Ibo people tainting you people the way you do them. If people begin to give account of their bad experiences with scammers from your tribe, many of you won’t like it. Scam know no tribe, as a matter of fact it is a Nigerian syndrome that has eaten deep into our fabrics.

The first time I was scam was when I went to buy a Laptop in Computer village. Despite the warnings not to patronize those without shops, I foolishly bargained with one dude they call Taiwo. I paid him cash and he gave me receipt for a used I Core 3. It was when I got home that I began dancing to the music. I tried switching on the Laptop on, kole work. To the extent of running back to Computer village the next day to complain to the guy. You’re even lucky that you can complain to taskforce in Alaba. In my own case, the Taiwo denied ever meeting me, neither selling any item to me. The other of his colleagues supported him and that was how the case ended. I even had to take the Laptop to a repairer within that axis to repair, but lo and behold, when he opened the Lapi, it was filled with loosed wires and dead panel.

Is it the second time again in 2017, same Computer village. Oga take time o. Everyone have had bad experience with scammers irrespective of tribe. Stop that holier than thou attitude you dey display here.

Show us proof like the OP has and we will discuss it here and help track down the criminals (not praise them for being smart), otherwise you are just telling a story. Only a JJC on nairaland will say he doesn't know when Igbos were painting Yorubas in all colors because of hushpuppy that was condemned by many reasonable Nigerians both igbos and Yorubas.

Olaolufred:


You spoke out my mind.
I have been a crusader of this point for years.
The people are the problem.
Our day to day life on the streets isn't different from what is happening at the top.
But Hyposrisy won't allow us take responsibility.

You know my pain?
All of them will go to mass on Sunday morning and drop offerings from the cursed money.

The preachers sometimes won't even preach against such.

You guys should quit calling Preachers and refer everything to Offerings because of your hate against Christianity. The few good Preachers preaching against the bad attitude do it but these bad Nigerians are just something else.
The problem is our cultural setting whether Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, etcetera. Our cultural setting respects only money and those with it and this is where the problem lies.

2cribz:
Dah home theater na olden days panel dey inside cos how a whole home theater no work with nepa or phcn,na only gen . Shey na light abi na the same gen dem use test am for you,whoever explain that nonsense need 3 days slapping..

next time ask for their taxforce office the issue will be resolved .there was this aboki too that was duped but luckily he met with a kind hausa SOLDIER while he crying ,the soldier guy called two of his calluges and they went in search of the guy but before getting there they asked him to inflate the money from 250k to400k the army guys collectd 400k and gave the northern guy his 250k.

mabeni:
i went to Alaba international market to buy a set of Tokunbo Home Theatre. Luckily/ unfortunately for me i asked around and i was directed to a shop where i would find my choice. I got to the shop and i specifically told them I want a SAMSUNG Home Theater and the search began. They tested 3 diferrent sets but the last one got my attention and I asked for the price.

The seller (shop owner) told me it was 55k and i negotiated it to 25k and he asked me pay. I requested for his account details but he declined saying he doesn't take transfers. I quickly went to use POS, came back and asked for the SAMSUNG SETS i had priced be tested to avoid foul play. It was tested and i confirmed it. I paid, receipt was issued to me but without going through my receipt, I wrote my name and signed because i never suspected scam.

Now, it was time for me to leave with my purchases and the boy boy told me "the engine/DVD to the home theater i bought does not support or work with electricity but strictly works for only generator ". I asked him to repeat himself and he did. The statement didn't make sense to me. He then suggested he could swap the engine/DVD of the SAMSUNG Home Theater i bought for another one that uses electricity. I sensed foul play and asked him why he didn't tell me these before making payment.

Note: the owner of the shop had gone out when boy boy was telling me this.
Luckily, he came back to meet us arguing. I narrated what his boy told me about the sound system they sold for me he affirmed to it that the engine/DVD doesn't use electricity. I got confused and demanded for a refund. These guys refused. Insisting I take another DVD...i refused either that i preferred what i bought. They refused me going with what I bought. This infuriated a lot of noise and here comes in an elderly man who claimed to be the landlord of the shop.

He asked me what was wrong, i told him and he slapped the Boy boy. At this point, i knew I was being scammed but was helpless as well. It was just only me against Alaba boys. The elderly man asked me to calm down that he was there to help me out bla bla bla and requested to see the receipt that was issued to me me. Lo and behold, the subwoofer and the other 3 small speakers was not included in the receipt. They only wrote the engine/DVD they claimed doesn't use nepa light and even boldly put NO WOOFER & NO SPEAKERS. (indirect or indirectly, i only paid 25k for just the DVD player )

The truth was, i never saw these errors before the arrival of the elderly man. he pointed out the errors and finally told me they don't refund money in ALABA that it was all a trick and the trick was for me to pay any amount cos the sound system i bought was more than 25k that i would have to add more money for me to go with it. I insisted i don't have more money to add and they insisted i take a Chinese product. I no gree.

To cut it short, i finally found out the elderly man was part of them. His job was to distract and calm their victim down. At the end of it all, i only got the subwoofer and 3 small speakers. The ENGINE/DVD was not given to me.

This was my sad experience today in the hands of some heartless Nigerians.

That is the face of the SHOP OWNER. TRUE CALLER shows his name as BEN.


acunnon, do you know this man?

I hope those fools who don't wait a second to insult Buhari and other leaders can see who the real
heartless scammers are.
I can bet my bottom dollar that these folks are from the east.
Na dem dey develop other countries through exploitation, fraud,drug trafficking and stealing.

this right here is the reason nigerians are hated all over the world

Naijaarchive:


let's just forget it.... Nigeria can't get any better abeg

I had a really good laugh when I read that. Nigerians! This country is riddled with too many problems and the number 1 is people's mindset.

Basiljoe:
You for add 20k, making it 45k, then come to my showroom in ajah, and I will give you a brand new Home theatre with Bluetooth and modern features. No hassles. I also do home delivery.

This is how to do business, sad thing is poverty has affected our thinking in this country and some people will end up buying used products double the price of a new and better one.

I don't know who you are but when I'm ready to buy mine I will surely be in contact.

Habayomie:

I come in peace because no one has ever accused you of scam on Nairaland.But only mad at what those guys(Alaba boys) do.

I get bro. It happens o. I will just advice that anyone coming to Alaba to buy an item should get someone already in the market to follow him or her

mabeni:
Bros, i was not a greedy type and no be sey i choose home theater wey dey too big.. See ehn, this could happen to anyone without this kind of experience.
I learnt my lessons tho

Bros, take heart. That was how I was scammed in 2005 , I can't forget. I went to buy Samsung R220, they tested it and the phone was working. I paid and ask the guy to package the phone. When l brought out the phone and inserted my sim into the phone all the networks disappeared. I called the attention of the guy and he asked me, " Do you want to sell it or use it. I told him it's for personal use moreover whatever I wanted to use it for shouldn't determine it's network connectivity. He told me that They have to work on the phone at extra cost before the phone can start receiving network signal. My brother, it wasn't funny at all. I told him l only have my transport left. We started moving from one shop to other claiming he is searching for the part for over three hours. At the end , l have to take another phone of lesser quality instead of losing all. Check very well, it's common with a particular tribe.

temmienewells:
Better thank God say you carry something go house, you self no too try sha.

Datz true ooo, dos pple in alaba r very wicked . its gud u go wit sme1 rather dan goin alone

uvie66:
What is tribalistic here, 99% of the traders in these markets are Ibos, because they will never rent a shop to another tribe. Have you ever seen a Yoruba Man, aboki, or Calabar Man selling in these places ?

Can they afford the price of that shop , Igbos are pay 500k or 1million per year in those shops, can aboki afford it.

naso one Ipod Developer took my mum to Dangote warehouse that he owns it. These guys are fraudsters, Fear them

greenskittles:

I had a really good laugh when I read that. Nigerians! This country is riddled with too many problems and the number 1 is people's mindset.

Exactly.... Without change of mindset of at least 60% of the people... nothing will ever change for better in this country

mabeni:
i went to Alaba international market to buy a set of Tokunbo Home Theatre. Luckily/ unfortunately for me i asked around and i was directed to a shop where i would find my choice. I got to the shop and i specifically told them I want a SAMSUNG Home Theater and the search began. They tested 3 diferrent sets but the last one got my attention and I asked for the price.

The seller (shop owner) told me it was 55k and i negotiated it to 25k and he asked me pay. I requested for his account details but he declined saying he doesn't take transfers. I quickly went to use POS, came back and asked for the SAMSUNG SETS i had priced be tested to avoid foul play. It was tested and i confirmed it. I paid, receipt was issued to me but without going through my receipt, I wrote my name and signed because i never suspected scam.

Now, it was time for me to leave with my purchases and the boy boy told me "the engine/DVD to the home theater i bought does not support or work with electricity but strictly works for only generator ". I asked him to repeat himself and he did. The statement didn't make sense to me. He then suggested he could swap the engine/DVD of the SAMSUNG Home Theater i bought for another one that uses electricity. I sensed foul play and asked him why he didn't tell me these before making payment.

Note: the owner of the shop had gone out when boy boy was telling me this.
Luckily, he came back to meet us arguing. I narrated what his boy told me about the sound system they sold for me he affirmed to it that the engine/DVD doesn't use electricity. I got confused and demanded for a refund. These guys refused. Insisting I take another DVD...i refused either that i preferred what i bought. They refused me going with what I bought. This infuriated a lot of noise and here comes in an elderly man who claimed to be the landlord of the shop.

He asked me what was wrong, i told him and he slapped the Boy boy. At this point, i knew I was being scammed but was helpless as well. It was just only me against Alaba boys. The elderly man asked me to calm down that he was there to help me out bla bla bla and requested to see the receipt that was issued to me me. Lo and behold, the subwoofer and the other 3 small speakers was not included in the receipt. They only wrote the engine/DVD they claimed doesn't use nepa light and even boldly put NO WOOFER & NO SPEAKERS. (indirect or indirectly, i only paid 25k for just the DVD player )

The truth was, i never saw these errors before the arrival of the elderly man. he pointed out the errors and finally told me they don't refund money in ALABA that it was all a trick and the trick was for me to pay any amount cos the sound system i bought was more than 25k that i would have to add more money for me to go with it. I insisted i don't have more money to add and they insisted i take a Chinese product. I no gree.

To cut it short, i finally found out the elderly man was part of them. His job was to distract and calm their victim down. At the end of it all, i only got the subwoofer and 3 small speakers. The ENGINE/DVD was not given to me.

This was my sad experience today in the hands of some heartless Nigerians.

That is the face of the SHOP OWNER. TRUE CALLER shows his name as BEN.


acunnon, do you know this man?

I don't understand why anyone would go to Alaba to buy electronics.