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frebor:
The price on the page is the item price, his shipping price will only be shown when he is about to check out having selected his prefered shipping option, which usually is Amazon global priority shipping (2-7days)

Amazon will only charge standard freight costs not the ridiculous prices sellers on Aliexpress fix.

Well, still too much. If it's $85, $10 is the max i can pay. Lol.

wisehouse:
i learnt somewhere online that one can you use his/saving account for wire transfer. through some few banks, pls have anyone tried it

Internet banking?

Mizzzbeee:
I am also waiting for this information on zenith bank.....

I thought @sinebaba answered all the Zenith Bank queries?

guente02:
Can someone explain this?

Lol. It's shipping cost. You've not seen DHL shipping of $110 for a $1 item on Aliexpress?

solaceTK:
Access bank
Paypal via EBay
#208
4/4/2015

Updated in first post

frebor:
Gtbank
Aliexpress
N207.44
April 3 8:00pm

I did suspect that new bank rates don't come into effect as early as midnight time.

Anyone else have info on other banks? This thread runs on info. Thank you to all the contributors

frebor:
That link sef na news on the surface jare. I checked too and the official interbank rate has not moved an inch from 199.05 for some days now.

This article captures the real situation: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-02/buhari-bounce-eluding-nigeria-s-naira-raises-devaluation-threat

BTW, I was charged N208 using Access bank on PayPal today. I was hoping on that post that said Access rates was $199, turns out GTbank is even cheaper at the reported N206.

Any idea what Diamond is charging presently?

Diamond bank this morning at 6am - 204.07
Ecobank at same time - 235.69

Someone said 206.9 for GT. Which is 207.

Updating ur Access Bank rate. Those ones are all over the place!

koredex4love:
you mea as at today?why is a b o k i s now buying and selling at a ridiculous price,i just want an expert analysis and advice.

Yep, just made some transactions. Nothing major tho.
Because it's a business and they have to gain. Nobody is in business to lose.

koredex4love:
Banks won't nor buy dollars from you except you are travelling then dey can sell to you wi proove of travelling documents.on a b o k i auto correct na so i dey see am after post oo

Lol. I guess Seun thinks it's an insult.

Anyways, I can confirm the Ecobank is still 235.69 and that Diamond Bank is still 204.07. Rounded off to 1 decimal place in first post, dates updated.

Thespecialone:
Gtbank master card
N206.99
April 3rd 2015

Nice! GTB Rate has been affected. Stable for a while now... Updated first post.

koredex4love:
so why are abokis selling at a lesser price?

Lol. i wanted to ask if Northerners was supposed to be code for 'a b o k i', then i saw the nairaland autocorrect or should i say 'anti-insult technology' corrects it. How much are they selling? i thought they selling at 211? Did u buy any dollar from them?

Jeffy1206:
I have been monitoring the naira dollar since and today lo and behold it improved today... Maybe we are on our way to #1 $1

Anybody else did transactions today? What rate?

tyconcepts:
Wasn't easy bro....If not for forums like this, that's how the money would have fizzle into thin air without any explanation.

And btw @tyconcepts i believe one of the reasons, if not the main reason Access Bank's rate dropped to 199.1 is because of the headache you gave them. So dat now they can charge people at 199.1 and refund at 199.0 without anyone making too much noise about it. Even CBN won't hammer them for that. And maybe even have a better excuse for refunding people dat have already paid at a higher rate with 199. These banks tho!

tyconcepts:
Rukevwe (Urhobo) = Funmi (Yoruba)..... Am an half caste

Lol. Me sef, my Father is from Abia North, my mother is from Abia South. I am also half caste.

frebor:
We are hoping for an improvement in the rates these coming days
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/naira-gains-7-now-211-to-dollar/

Wait oh. I don't understand sha. Wasn't it 199 before? Regardless, if you say this is good news then I'm glad. lol.

tyconcepts:
Wasn't easy bro....If not for forums like this, that's how the money would have fizzle into thin air without any explanation.

God Bless Nairaland

God Bless This thread

God Bless CBN


Below are SS of mail exchange and resolve.

Note : I didn't see the need to blot out any info.....This rather be bare....Ignore my account number except you are paying in 7figures and only contact me after you must have paid in

At least this thread has liberated one person and dats just the beginning i believe. Please oh remove screenshots or sensor all the important info like email addresses and even ur name because some people on nairaland, scam for a living. Regardless i think Rukevwe is an interesting name, just so fun to say. no idea what it means tho.

Someone sent by Stanbic just came to my house and gave me this. Apparently this is the last procedure before ur account is fully functional. When they told me Address Verification, i thought it was just BS just like what Access bank Ghana did. Those ones told me to draw a map sef and they never came.
StanbicIBTC got long procedure yo. Hopefully it'll be worth it.

tyconcepts:
Positive update on the quoted.

So I took up the advise of mavinC4u after my tweets, mails, calls couldn't yield positive results. He provided me with an email (CBN I suppose) to which I did a detailed mail to and copied Access bank....Lol and behold, my phone turned to customer care line as calls from Access bank ogas kept pouring in even though I didn't get a response from CBN.

I kept up the twitter fight too hashtagging #SayNoToFraud with some few twitter fighters and just now.....Hallelujah!!!


I got a credit alert of my full refund of #184,008 after a debit of the previous half refund of #162,384..


MavinC4u....I am most appreciative of you entirely. I will sure return the favour some day....Hold me to it

@All.....Thanks for your suggestions.

Okay now, they thought they have seen idiots they will just walk all over. No problem. Where is that CBN email address sef. I will add it to first post. How will almost 22K just go like that?! To everyone using Access Bank, just thank tyconcepts because she has fought for all of you. believe it or not.

kandrus:
I bought an app for 0.99 on 1/4/2015 and was charged 209.11

Date updated.

Jeffy1206:
Gtb PayPal 209.99.

U were paying for an item to a seller yes? Because i think it's only when u are sending money funded by a card (Not paypal balance) they charge. I'm tired of trying to figure out paypal. Ur bank rates should just sha be low. Afterall if dollar was 100 naira suddenly, who will worry about Bank rates?

kandrus:
exactly.. Union bank beneficiary name okafor Peter , beneficiary number :4871099491. If it was in a proper setting
I would have pressed charges against the accounting officer that opened the account for me.but this is Nigeria,I will just use this only for
Online transactions no transfers.as a precautionary measure

Honestly, i don't think it's the banks staff. I think this ur action of letting ur email address out could have started it. But maybe the hacker has access to the list of emails associated with the bank, not the members of staff working with the hackers, I'll like to think that they are better than that. More like scammers than hackers tho. Because most of these are just 'tricks' really, no real hacking going on.

Thespecialone:
Gtbank master card N209.99/$ April 2nd 2015
Received a call from stanbic lagos office thanking me for opening an account and blah blah blah blah
Yet to receive my account number though.

Will update on first post, I got my account number after about 30 - 36 hrs. Tweeting at them on twitter is a quick way to get a response. works very well. Dats where they replied that their rate was 199.5 two days ago.

kandrus:
Firsbank
0.99$/209.11

209.11/0.99 = 211.2. I'm guessing it was an app u bought. Anyways u didn't state the date. Please share the date.

jerrygome:
I live @ Eco Bank for reasons you already know They have the best exchange rate. Send that one

I have Quickteller to transfer to any other of my accounts

mjay:
Access Bank March 30 $45.49 @ N9,057.06 =N199.1
Visacard on Ali Express.

It's like these Access Bank ppl are confused. 225 today, 215 tomorrow, 199 the next day. Updated first post tho...

EUGENE4GOO:
You mean it. I am contemplating on going for Zenith Card

Zenith or Stanbic. Even Diamond is kinda good. Stable is better than being all over the place.

jerrygome:
Thanks. This your work suppose get salary

Lmao. Abi o? No worry i go email u my Ecobank, Diamond Bank and Stanbic account numbers. Anyone closest to you. Lol.

EUGENE4GOO:
Please, who can tell me the best Zenith card for online transaction. Is it Prepaid Visa or Mastercard or Debit Visa or Mastercard. Which one are you using to buy things online. Can Zenith Debit card works in any site? I want to apply for one but I don't know which one to go for. Please I need your advice.

I believe @sinebaba would be able to help you with this. He is our Zenith Bank expert/ Consultant. Lol. But from his info on page 3, he uses Zenith Bank mastercard. And I'm guessing he would advice the same.

jerrygome:
GTB still 209.99 7789 on 31st March

Updated in first post

kandrus:
I'll like to share my experience with opening standbic IBTC bank account.went to the bank, did all the necessary.after about 3hours my account number was sent to me,not upto 30mins another mail came in, notifying me that I had added a bank beneficiary.i had just barely opened the account have not even gotten an atm,how on earth would I have added a beneficiary.i know it's a scam link.now I feel it's an insider thing,all these
Banks are becoming porous and a little bit loose
With personal information.we should just try and be carefull the banks we open,and how we transact online,especially with clicking links with
Bank notification.could it be the staffs are aware of this ?

I always check the actual email address that sends it, not just the sender label or name per say. Sometimes i even track the ip address where the email originated from using the email header. Dats how i received an email from GTBANK a few days ago telling me to confirm my login or something like that.
This is called Phishing. The hacker will design a webpage that looks EXACTLY like the GT Bank own and send it to ur email address, once u click it and put ur login details there, ur login details is saved to a notepad in his database, all he just has to do is take those details and login to the real GTB Internet banking platform and use ur money to play nairabet
I'm not a hacker, i have a degree in Information Technology

P.S: THIS IS A WARNING TO EVERYONE

frebor:
Gtbank
Amazon (checked out in Naira)
208.57
1st April

Thank you very much for the info, but this isn't a GT Bank Rate. Checking out in dollars is the rate. Regardless, every piece of information is welcome. Cheers.

Jeffy1206:
No debit alert for the card.

Did you tick Internet and Mobile banking? If so, let me know when u get online banking creation alert.

Jeffy1206:
Just got alert for the card... 1050

Oh! Debit to process the card. I thought it was alert to come and collect the card.

Jeffy1206:
Update.

Gtb charge me 210.4 on PayPal 31. 03. 2015.

I think Paypal rate is higher.

Tobiizzy:
Welcome to StanbicIBTC, in my years of using them ,there has been no issue a simple email to the customer care couldn't solve

Lol. Welcome me when my card is here. Hopefully we will remain at $ < 200

Took 2 days for Stanbic to open my account. But anyways it's done now. Used my Diamond Bank app to confirm that the account is active. All good. now time for the card.

Mizzzbeee:
197 official dollar rate as at today... How True ? Anyone?

Stanbic said on Twitter today 199.5 don't know if it's official or their rate. but whichever it is, it's good enough i guess...

ozor1:
ok then, I'll provide the details

Until you do.

Anyways, day 2 and i haven't gotten my account number from Stanbic yet, even tho a staff called me and told me that it has been opened and that she will send it to me personally tomorrow as she has left the office blah blah blah

ozor1:
Firstbank MasterCard today was 208 add to fp

Thanks for the update. Can u give us the dollar value and value in alert? Paypal or regular transaction?

Samunosuke:
Thought I had posted this here earlier.

UBA are bloody criminals!

Ordered from amazon about 3 weeks back. Amazon automatically detects the currency your card is in and instead of charging in dollars, they offer the option of billing you in naira to cut out exchange rate fluctuations.

Amazon gave me a rate of 209 but since i have had better rates from UBA in the past, I chose dollars and UBA charged me about 230. About 4 items had shipped before i realized this, so I quickly cancelled the remaining items (amazon only charge your account when the items ship but they place a hold on your account for the required amount immediately you place the order), waited for about 2 days for the hold to clear and then ordered again using amazon's currency converter in naira. Result: UBA still charged 230+.

For a total order of about $1000, i paid about 20k extra for no reason.

Really pissed off, but I just don't have time for them right now. When i'm a lil' bit more settled, I'll face them

Would have switched back to GTB but i have 2 issues with them:

1. It's a current account, COT ruins it .

2. They are fond of double charging or whatever and then returning it after a while (usually at the end of the month). EFF that!

Access bank is looking sexy though.

Access bank are messing refunds up, and rates are bleeped up! You better Stanbic up! Lol.

Thespecialone:
five working days, yeah you have to fill more forms

They said i don't need to, see the screenshots above. After 3 working days you are supposed to get the Internet banking details.

Thespecialone:
Gtbank master card
209.99/$
March 30,2015

Patiently waiting for my stanbic card

Added date to first page. At least their rate is stable.
Did Stanbic give you an account number yet? Haven't gotten mine, so not even thinking of card yet.

OFF TOPIC: Please does anyone know why whenever i post an advert in the Technology Market section, it never shows up and i am banned immediately?
I see adverts of basically the same format live on nairaland. Anyone?