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azpekuliar: Shut Up! and stop persuading honest Nigerians to circumvent Paypal's rules. Just used my Africard to fund my BetonMarkets account and it rocks!

What he was expecting, is for people to start asking him how they can use paypal here and for him to tell them to send emails to some stupid email account, and the nonsense continues from there.

I use GTB mastercard and UBA Africard online and they both work for me. However,I find that I use the UBA africard more now and dont even bother to add money to my GTB dollar mastercard anymore because the Africard is very convenient. I dont need to go looking for dollars to buy and pay into my account. I just pay in naira whenever I want and when shopping online, the going exchange rate is applied. I have not had problems with it.

I think Dimateo should leave and go to another team in England. He will get his well-deserved respect and will not be under immense pressure as Abramovich would subject him to at Chelsea. Better to bow out with the high ovation than 5 months down the line, to be humiliated and sacked by Abramovich.

[quote author=*Ileke-IdI]Obviously, you don't.[/quote]You leave matter wey dey ground dey look oyibo wey people dey speak abi?

christopherike: Are you really serious? This is like saying you will not work in a brewery because people will get drunk or that you will not work in a road construction firm because there will be car crashes on the road. Scams can take place everywhere, there is really not any thing like a 'scam website.' Websites do not scam people, people are the real scammers. So quit your half baked moralising and make we hear word!!!

You are totally missing it.

First of all people who drink, do so of their own volition. People *knowingly* go out to buy cars, People who construct roads, do so to better people's lives.

In this case we are talking of a site the web designer, knows, will be used for scamming *unsuspecting* individuals.

Perhaps, its a site that would imitate a bank, perhaps its a site that will ask people to add thier details to be used illegally. In this case, the people that would be visiting that site, would not know that the site is there to scam them. So your analogy is warped ..

nhmmmm, it seems this post has made front page.. . When you read a comment like that from Okija spirit

lol

lagerwhenindoubt: what is it all about - I have been confused lately..

lol, you should na..
Somethings are just not worth it. When a conscience is seared, they whole essence of humanity, is lost..

cap28: So u actiually think walmart will pay nigerian workrs the same hourly rate tht they pay their workrs in america? What wld be the point of settng up their business in nigeria if they hve to pay the same wages to nigerian staff, the whole idea behind them cmg to nigeria is to make ten times the profit they make in nigeria

Every business is setup primarily to make huge profits, unless its an NGO.
Walmart is not alone in this. In fact our own businesses are the most culpable in this, as our business men exploit us even more than foreign companies.
Since Shopright food section(prepared food section), started operating in Surulere, other fast food places around them have had to reorganise due to the competition. In Tastee and Tantalisers, they now advertise what they call food value pack which is just about 600 naira (includes a drink). They are not doing it at a loss. They are only reacting to competition and to give people other cheaper options.
On the issue of the hourly payments, by the calculations I made earlier, its prety certain that if the same payment structure would be maintained here, even our bankers and medical doctors would resign and join wamlart, but I made that to counter an arguement.
Having said that, payment structures and prices of goods are determined by what is obtainable in the market place. Our minimum wage is 18,000 per month. Even if they pay 1 dollar an hour or even 10 dollars a day, its still better than the minimum wage by 4 times. The issue we need to look at is the job creation. People are saying that the local producers or market sellers will be out of business but thats not true. Once again , use the shopright model as an example. Farmers in Nigeria have a ready market in Shopright. Most of our locally produced goods are stocked at shopright. There are numerous indigenous suppliers to Shopright and even one person here has confirmed he is one of them. Besides, The GAME(I understand they are Walmart), Park and Shop, Mega Plaza have all been operating in Nigeria for a while now and Alaba International and Idumota traders have not closed shop.
We always let sentiments take precedence over seriously analysing pros and cons of an issue before discarding it as bad.

ladybfashion: @portage I see where u are coming from but the whole thing is that WalMart will put all this small business around them out out of business no matter what because no one can compete with them and will end up paying peanut to the same set of people after running them out of business.let take for instances your dad or uncle owns some electronic and furniture store down the street where WalMart is locate whereby WalMart will sell the same stuff your dad or uncle sell for far lower than their price and put them out just because they are richer and can buy millions of stuff for cheap and your dad or uncle now started working for WalMart for 200 naira per day.think.

Shopright is cheap cheaper than most supermarkets around yet they have not run anyone out of business. You people underestimate the huge market that is called Nigeria. The same market that the few mama iyabo and nna-uche supermarkets have been exploiting with huge profit margins on goods(yes I said it).

Secondly, its you and others that have said that Walmart pays people 5-9 dollars an hour. If you use 7 dollars as the mark, thats about 1100 per hour at the going exchange rate multiplied by the typical 9-4 shift which is 7hours. And we are talking of about N7,500 for a day, no? Calculate what that yields in a month. Graduates are working at Shopright because they know what the gains are and the flexible working time.

Do you know what the minimum wage in Nigera is? Its 18,000 for a full month and most states are struggling with it. I see that the people opposed to this move are mostly people living abroad and some who dont quite get it. Thats to show how removed from the reality of issues on ground most people are. You are talking about court actions and stuff against Walmart abroad but who doesnt have them? As long as you are a huge institution that affects people in some way, you are going to have that.

All the major Telcos in Naija are curently paying a fine by NCC due to the complaints by Nigerians. The oil companies all over the world and including Naija, face court actions and probes everyday.
Why would someone just come and say Okonjo Iweala wants to just kill you? Do you know how preposterous that sounds?

KaimaTee: I have been reading and reading,and we have all concluded that it is going to wipe away our micro economy and make us poorer.The question is how do we stop it? Why don't they start the revolution now.If they don't listen bomb the so called walmart as soon as it arrives,if the rebuilt them,we rebomb them.am tired of us always moving from frying pan to fire.

You and who concluded? Please speak for only you.

Nigerians !! Everything is not a conspiracy to kill you...

So what now? You want to build a scam site knowing that they will be using it to defraud people?

Life is not all about money?

doncigalo: erm ....lets c ..wots d word im looking for .... yea got it !! RUBBISH !! UTTER RUBBISH !! D design is so woeful dat my browser keeps displaying a warning message that this site is harmful to the human eyes. As for d concept... use d remaining 99% of ur brain my friend. U can come up wit sumtin better.

kai! Thats too harsh oo.

The highlighted part was not necessary. If you had calmly told him what he should have done with the layout or color scheme, and he retorts with an insult or rebuff, your anger would then be understandable.

After all, he didnt say something like " Look at my site the most beautiful in naija" ...

Lol, the thread has taken a different discourse altogether.

The OP still hasent explained this : "Vconnect Is Stealing our clients, they teamed up with the government and giving people a wrong impression that you can get a good website for as low as 5k, Very crazy."

purefella: Boko haram will be there first customer

Nonsense !
How helpful is this your comment?

Nigerians are not stupid.

Shopright food section is cheap and there is variety.

Everyone gains. You buy food on the cheap and the farmers have a ready market for their goods, as the banana, onions, tomatoes, beef, chicken, etc, that they sell there are not imported but sourced locally. Even the prepared food section is cheaper than what you have at places like Tastee, and once again, those are not imported food. The stuff used to make the take-away foods are sourced locally. Shopright has numerous(indigenous) suppliers so they are helping both sides of the coin, i.e producers/suppliers and consumers.
Walmart coming in must have done their research and seen the trend and the Shopright model. They would have to continue in that model if they want to survive. Forget about the idea that people like buying foreign stuff. That idea is quickly fading away.

Arial Nigeria is produced locally and some of us will not trade it for any foreign detergent. The good Nigerian made products are there and keep growing despite all the cries about foreign products. I stand to be corrected but I havent seen any foreign made juice that outsells Chivita in Nigeria(Not saying Chivita is a wonderful drink , though).Bottomline is, Make good products and be consistent and you wont need to fear anything.

Do we understand the employment potentials of a walmart setting shop in Nigeria?

You just need to take a look at the Palms in Lekki, Surulere and Ikeja, as well as Enugu and you would welcome this development...

SimonAndal: _
How can it be conservative, and neo-liberal laissez-faire at the same time?

Ask me oo.

mbhs139: Survey Monkey is a paid and online survey instrument for collecting perceptual data by researchers all over the world. It is not meant to insult you. I swell it was not meant to insult anyone. Anyway, may be the producers should change the name if it sounds insulting. So, my brother take am easy.

lol, once a black man(particularly naija) hears monkey, he immediately gets aggravated ..

cyclops4real: seen it does look more like personal site, why am i replying for the guy self, u dey give me link to white empty personal site.

What are you talking about? What do you mean by white empty personal site?

Secondly, the post and links you quoted, I intended for the OP so whats with "u dey give me link to ...."?

To put things in proper perspective, this is the post from the thread owner to which I sent those links :

skyhighweb said: white background are more when it come to online shopping site wanted something else, its online site dont you think every site with the same colour is a little bit 2 much

To which I sent those links to reassure him that light themes dont have to look the same, so what point exactly are you trying to make?

green10119: Nice concept but am not liking the site at all the color combination is not just doing it for me, hope you don't mind me saying my mind i also would welcome reviews on http://greenlandng.com, also for new businesses that would like to advertise what they do through Google Adword am giving away $100 ready adword accounts for a token exclusively on Nairaland only call 07030234543.

I think it would have been better if you opened another thread and asked people to review your own site.
Is it right for people to leave the original thread and start reviewing yours?

jim jones: you got twisted. nigerians dont take nonsense to church, church brings nonsense to nigerians. nigerians are just about the perfect amount of st.upid to buy the s.hit them churches be selling

No! You got it twisted. Its Nigerians that take nonsense to Church. Havent you heard the word "Ye are Church"?

For the Church is the Body of Christ and not just a building. But Nigerians have decided to trivialise the Body and always focus on the mundane..

Have they retouched the place? Was there in 2007 and there were things that needed retouching. But looking at that first picture, it seems some work has been done.

mavintick: Says who?

you guys are getting it all wrong, there is a huge difference between social media and a website. 20 years from now i can guarantee you that there will still be social media and website will not be free but u sure will need to step up your game to stay relevant.

The constant changes by Zuck(Facebook is practically his playground), has made companies realise that it would be very silly to trust and place all their business on Facebook. The timeline alone has got so many companies fuming and re-evaluating Facebook as a business tool.

Which part of this statement above are you asking to know who said?

Are you saying that even prudence wont tell you that trusting all aspects of ones business on facebook would be silly?

Or is it that you dont acknowledge the fact that companies spent time and resources creating their company pages just for Zuck to come up with the timeline? Or you dont see the various petitions going on online about the timeline?

Do I need to quote anybody?

moderattor: facebook fanpages should show you that people won't need websites in 2020

The constant changes by Zuck(Facebook is practically his playground), has made companies realise that it would be very stupid to trust and place all their business on Facebook. The timeline alone has got so many companies fuming and re-evaluating Facebook as a business tool.

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]@soloqy
Nope, this isn't her first site. Her first site, done by a Nigerian (and looking much better than the current one, despite the fact that there was nothing like ajax, jquery etc back then) was launched in 2003 or so.[/quote]Maybe domain expired on their watch and someone registered it and placed a hefty price tag on it just like it happened to Omotola ?

skyhighweb: white background are more when it come to online shopping site wanted something else, its online site dont you think every site with the same colour is a little bit 2 much

@ The highlighted part, if you mean that they will look the same, not necessarily . There are so many light themed webshops that look different. Depends on the way you visualise it. For instance check this list of online shops. They are all light themed but all unique: Yours is a nice setup but am always interested in the aesthetics. Dark themes work in some instances like Fashion and something like online movie store though.

http://www.smallable.com/
http://www.monsieur-biere.com/
http://www.sweetisabelle.com/fr/
http://www.creedboutique.com/
http://www.stickaz.com/en/
http://www.whatgoesaroundnyc.com/shop/
http://www.madamechoup.com/
http://www.timefy.com/fr/

cyclops4real: nice straight to the point i use the login you gave one can also control his item by editing and removing it hope u activate it back, about the colour it your site not theirs

Funny how people talk. Its a site he wants others to use. Active participation from others. If he created it just for fun or a hobbyist site, thats when the highlighted statement you just made would make sense.

pc guru: The FBI is checking your mails,its a normal thing

lol

^^^^^^

Stop decieving yourself.

So as an avid viewer, its clear now that his prophecy was fake , no?

Eulogy is typically and normaly for someone who has just died. The term is *rarely* used for someone still alive.

Drogba is very much alive. Maybe you should consider changing the title

Na wao, Nigerians must take every nonsense into church

Dubious prediction. And of course, they will remove and delete the video where he said he only watched the first half.

Why would he conveniently watch only the first half in his dreams?

If he had predicted in that video that Chelsea would win, it would have gone viral by now.