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Please does anyone here have an idea why Streak mail merge could be sending empty emails? It happened yesterday and again today.

ElonMosque:
Verifying mails just became FREE and easy recently thank to Gmass bro, so don't blame him for that. It can also take more than 10 minutes depending on amount of endusers, speed of network and RAM of laptop.

That's a useful piece of info you have right there, bro! Might be time to dump Streak now - I mainly use it for merge.

Thanks for the other idea on how to keep a domain name available even after accepting an offer. Can't wait to test it. You're a genius!

I888:
If you pressure him too much, you risk losing that sale. Just have this at the back of your mind and exercise restrain, no matter how badly you need the money.

You should find that as soothing relief and do more outbound. The only downside of using Dan is that your lander becomes inactive as soon as an agreement is reached and this is where Epik is better. Landers shouldn't be deactivated just because an agreement is reached in order to give room for potential sales from other interested buyers.

I agree with this! I have yet to sell a domain name without first outbounding. So why take a domain name off the market after accepting just an offer?

Dan informed me that it does this to avoid double purchases and all when I complained some time ago.

The more annoying bit is that I have not been able to sell any name that I received an offer lower than BIN for on Dan.

Eby2004:
No sir not yet it's painful

That's sad. I only hope you don't have anybody depending on you with all this. God's still on his throne!

Sir? Um... Well, I guess you're only being respectful. Thanks, ma'am.

If you can still access the email you used for registering your Nairaland account, you may send me a PM via my profile. I'd love to discuss a little with you. Sorry, I don't have a job to offer, though.

Eby2004:
It is well

Even in the well. Any offer yet from forwarding your CV?

Graceboi1, you are "only" 27! Many much older folks are having it as tough and maybe tougher.

Please I beg you to never let ending it all be an option for you. Please. That would be a cause for an even greater, eternal sorrow.

I must confess: I'm somewhat like you. There are things I thought I should be getting results from compared to some people who are doing much better. But whenever I take a brief moment to think I still see a reason to be thankful for my life.

I want you to believe, like me, that God can give you all you have not been able to achieve in many years in just a twinkle of an eye! Just depend on him entirely and do not involve yourself in anything diabolical or fetish. I believe what God won't do for anyone is not worth having.

The greatest tragedy, I believe, is not being a so-called failure in this life but spending all eternity separated from God. This is why I don't want you to ever consider the "ending it all" option, never ever.

May God be with you, hold you strong and see you through this phase to a better one.

Maneq:
600 years

Why you wicked like this?

LadySarah:

The woman tasted black gbola. See how she's at peace.

This pikin don spoil.

mumin4sure:
A very effective way to find End users

So say I want to sell the domain name foodbank.us (actual domain I own). I would go to Google search and type in the exact line below...

site:facebook.com "gmail" foodbank

Other examples that might give you better (more) results would be:

site:facebook.com "gmail" foodbank South Carolina
site:facebook.com "gmail" foodbank Florida
site:facebook.com "gmail" foodbank Nevada


You just replace foodbank / location with whatever keywords fit your domain name...meaning there are millions of potential clients at your fingertips now for all your domains.

The Google Chrome extension I use so that I don't have to copy and paste each email individually can be found by typing "email extractor google chrome extension" in Google search. Also to make this a bit easier I change my Google search results to show 100 instead of 10. You can do this by going to google .com/preferences

I turn the Chrome extension off whenever I am not using it because it does slow things down.

this same method can also be used on linkedin


Thanks to Michael Norris who dropped the tip on namepros , i decided to bring it here for us

Thanks for sharing, bro! One of the reasons it's worth checking this thread every now and then, even when things seem slow.

delawal:
all these talks abt protest aint necessary. just last year wht were u people doing during d election. some of u in d west thought its a contest of tribe supremacy between yorubas and igbos witout seeing d huge failure of buhari govt. most of u from r north prefered a dunce to be there once he is from north, now una carry revolution come. did u people just woke up now. some of u looking for people to bail where have u all been since. d bile una carry for belle wont allow una see beyond ur nose. as i said last time, after coming here to make noise u all will go back and,embrwce eame shi.t u made noise abt. naija is doomed bc yall thinking ability is beclouded by hate, nepotism and co

You see one of the reasons I find it hard to see how this country will ever progress. People tribalise everything! In your mind, this is a tussle between the Yorubas and Ibos, right? What petty thinking.

So Atiku has become an Ibo man? At least he was the real challenger to Buhari. I didn't also get the memo that the latter has become a Yoruba man.

People need to stop being myopic. These corrupt politicians ain't got no love for the common man, forget the parties. They don't value you, except you are one of them. They are all the same! The earlier you and your ilk realise this the better.

Kalatium:
Damn! That hurts.
It seems that is their scheme

Experience of this nature is part of why some people are bitter with a particular tribe. But I know better.

Kalatium:
Nigerian markets are filled with drama. Today i will like to share some of my annoying market experience.

1. Last year i was passing through the market but was blocked by an igbo man that i should come and buy his bedsheets, i told him i was just passing. While we were altercating another man came and met us that i should buy shoes from his shop i told them i was not interested. They both started dragging me each telling me to go to his shop i angrily told them to back off that they are harrassing me and they stop.

2. I went to buy shoes on a faithful day when a man told me he knows where i can buy correct shoes. He took me to the place and after buying the shoe, he told me the shoe can easy get spoiled that he will take me to the guy that will help me fix shoe nails for free. We went there and i ask the guy hope its free he said yes. After he added the shoe nails to my shoe he told me it was 1500 naira. I was flabbergasted and petplexed, i told him didnt he said it was free. He said he doesn’t like such nonsense thats it's the first one that is for free. Before i know many people gathered around because we were seriously quarelling. Then the initial man that brought me there said he will pay 1000 naira and i will pay the remaining 500naira i was angry. I just had to close my eyes and pay that money.

3. Another day i bought some pair of shoes and while coming back. A man who was sitting down was shouting bros, bros i am talking to you come and enter my shop. In my mind i was like "see this man o is it jazz you are using that will make you enter my shop.

So, whats your annoying market Experience?

I wanted to pass this post over until I saw the second experience. It reminded me of a similar one I had at Aswani Market 14-15 years ago.

Bought a pair of faux leather flip-flops for N600 (a good deal, I thought). A fellow soon came around to solicit me to consider adding nails for durability. I asked how much and he said N50, which I thought was just about what Hausa shoe menders would charge. I gave him the go-ahead.

After nailing six points, he said my bill was N600. I was like what! Told me the back and front parts of each nail was N50 each. I was mad! But I couldn't start a fight because I was somewhat a "church boy" and that kept me from losing it to an extent (same factor made me practically pay N500 for fare from Ikeja to Ojota yesterday, ouch!).

It can be quite hard to be a peaceful, easy-going person in this Lagos.

dalass:
Well, you could have lost 300k... I have lost money too to such... First time I heard of NIA and I paid to a guy working there who's connected. The friend who vouched for him was confident he also paid .... We were told to get ready for training bla bla bla...

The man disappeared

Ofe!

LuQuLuQu:
Buying a tin of Sardins only to find the fish content has reduced to 2 at the same price!


What a great loss to the nation..

Oga Lukuluku, wehdon sa. Nigerians ehn.

Heartlessbanker:
open a new nairaland account,use a beautiful female pic,make sure you are always on FP and try to create attention by saying trash or something controversial,then men will mention you,and then the DMs will come,then you scam them of their money....

Ahem, you do that?

tensazangetsu20:
When people have no money. They get a job.

Did you read the original post at all? He said he's jobless! Or do you have a job for him?

horpeyemmi66:
Hello DarkPheonix,

Well done and congratulations on your result. You did great. Always thank God in everything .

I am not so surprised about your Parents kicking against UNIMAID, it's normal given the prevailing circumstances in the country.

No one University is perfect. There are some schools where connections and money run the affairs viz: LAUTECH, UNIJOS, ABU, UNILAG, LASU and UI (covertly).

Now I would pick each of these schools(I know a bit about each one) and talk about them briefly to buttress.

LAUTECH: I was at Ogbomoso some seven years ago for Predegree. When admission time came I began seeing different funny things at the students affairs, because that's where the office of the admissions officer is located. You see several vehicles littered across the car lot that caters for the students affairs building. Pot-bellied lecturers going in and out. Students milling around in their numbers.

I saw deserving students even of Oyo and Osun origin shuffled to funny departments that had no correlation whatsoever with what they applied for from the onset.

I myself was offered crop and environmental protection in lieu of Medicine, when I complained the admissions officer told me blankly "Go and study Medicine in your father's state (Ondo)". I knew someone who applied for Medicine and was offered Fine and Applied art.

People getting whisked from Computer Engineering to Accounting Technology, Marketing and Transport Management. While some students who, if their scores were subtracted from mine, there would still be more than 100 difference got in for Medicine, Nursing and MLS.

LAUTECH was so porous (I don't know about now). I even helped a friend who failed his test that time. I knew one of the student leaders at that time, I explained, he told me to bring 20/25k, (I can't remember which) for upgrade. When the results and admission was released, my guy did well and was even offered Human Anatomy.

UNIJOS: I considered applying here for Dental Surgery but had to take two steps back when I started observing irregularities in their admissions process; I followed UNIJOS aspirants page on Facebook. I saw several people who merited the courses they applied for being offered something totally different. It's bewildering, really.

I have this colleague in Medicine who came from Jos to ABU. He was offered LARIS (Library and Archival Studies) in place of Medicine. Funny enough, a friend of his who he scored more than got Medicine. That school's modalities still baffles me, a lot.

ABU: ABU also has her own fair share of illogicalities, several if you asked me. How else, would one explain why someone with 250 average got Medicine and someone with 286 average was offered Physiology(with connection; I learnt about this much later). Moving a dude I know from Nursing all the way to Home Economics.

ABU also has SBRS (School of Basic and Remedial studies) students (from the 19 Northern states) to satisfy. It's complicated, honestly.

"You have to score the highest from your non-catchment state to be eligible for competitive courses", that statement only but goes so far.

I would say ABU is a matter of God's grace. A friend told me to, quoting him, "Make sure you know somebody. You know those abokis are always against Southerners blah, blah, blah". Well, I got in on the first list. I knew only God.

UNILAG:At Akoka, people pay millions to get into Medicine/Dental Surgery. Their admissions cut off mark list is more or less them fulfilling "Social righteousness" so to say.

Sure, some people would get in on merit, but how many? Is it with their style of Post UTME that seems the devil himself descended to design the model?.

Infact, I quizzed a friend who studies Medicine there now on how he prepared for their PUTME. He told me he had to buy a JAMB Government past question and several types of Current affairs pamphlets just to ace their exam.

Laudable effort, I agree. However, can you just imagine?

How about their Foundation/Diploma students? You know how much they pay? And there one is, spending at most N10,000(including registration in cafes for UTME and PUTME). One can't possibly expect them to admit one over them.

I have a neighbor whose father had to part with N700,000 for him to get a space in Law. On transit to 200L, I think they reviewed his results and found him missing Yoruba, he losed his admission. Baba took the UTME again and is currently in part 3 studying English Language. UNILAG is money and connection for the most part, if one has any of those, one is by all means good to go.

LASU: A friend's friend(who comes from Ogun State) applied there for Medicine some two years ago and heard nothing from that school up till date. He had 300+ at that time. Today, that fellow is now at Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto studying Medicine.

UI: University of Ibadan is by far the most transparent federal University in Nigeria. If you merit your admission, there's no witch or villager that would usurp what the almighty has perfected.

However, the competition. It is at UI you see Olympiad winners, Best Students at NECO and WAEC, people who have experience with A-Levels. This is where majority of them come. However, this is not to scare you, if it's Dental Surgery/Medicine at UI you want, you can by all means get it.

Now, only a few persons know UI past questions get leaked. How else can one explain a person scoring 92 in UI Post UTME. You can't just up and achieve that feat, it's the University of Ibadan.

I have a hunch those tutorial guys(Team tutors, Abadina; Apex Tutorials, Agbowo, et al.) have these questions. How do they get them? When their students go in for the PUTME, they tell them to memorize some of these questions, see, simple.

When it's time for their PUTME tutorials, I'd advice you be on campus for them, it would go a long way.

Also, the covertly aspect is this. Some students are given a sort of edge; a back door. If they fall couple of marks below the cut off mark, they are given a sort of waiver, provided the student is an offspring of and has thesame surname as a senior staff such as a Professor. I got to know about this at the UI UG-Admissions office last year when I went on enquiry for a friend.



Conclusively, all of these I have written are not an hallmark or a sort of yardstick and should not be regarded as one.

I do not know the innings of things that occur in various admissions offices across universities in Nigeria, all of the above are guesstimates.

Yet, we've got a God who can do the seemingly impossible. Do your part and do it very well.

My heart goes out to you all. It's hard, I know. You've come far and I applaud you.

Just pray, hope, follow your heart/intuition and do not be anxious for anything.

I wish you guys the very best.

Yours.


PS: Usman Danfodio recently began their Dental Surgery program. Not a lot of people know about this. You might want to do some findings.

Although I stopped academic studies several years ago, I can't help but comment on this.

You're on-point with the UI part, especially the part about giving more room for merit.

Also, your writing is excellent! I'm impressed.

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Oh, what a pity! I wish I could be of help, but sadly I can't. Please tell me someone has helped. Perhaps, you should check at places of worship.

If it's true that you stay in an uncompleted building, that's darn risky! And for a lady at that!

DamonSalvatore:
na you and who still de otukpo?.
I'm in abj... I asked you in 2018 to come meet me at 50 space command giri or 176 g b check point gwags... You chickened out... I for use hands remove the 5 remaining strands of hair on your head

Lorenzop:
I just made it clear, I will not give out my strategy for free. It's very clear. Those who knows the value have not complained. You get the point now?

Yesa. Ok o.

Lorenzop:
No sir...I make more than enough from my trades, I never asked no one for money. But if you want to learn my skill then you have to pay for it. It's not free. So please watch your comments

So what's the difference? If "it's not free," then how are you not collecting money? 10k no be beans o!

OP, you sef wan collect our money, abi?

Are you seriously asking this question? This one weak me o.

You are not a kid anymore! I expected you to be the one advising younger persons on matters like this.

With all the signs you've seen, you are still waiting for us to confirm your decision? Do what makes you happy.

What has this guy done to you?

FrustratedLady:
widows are very lonely and desperate.
I can't count how many widows that have begged me for sex and are even willing to empty their accounts for me.
Widows are the easiest prey on Facebook, just promise them marriage and love and watch how they worship and lick you down to your feet.
I only add widows on my Facebook account, no karma or magun involved.

And you are supposed to be a female user, abi?

Crazeworld:
This is always the complain and nothing is getting better. The people in government are Nigerians like you and I. When they leave, young people will fill up the position and most likely, prove to be worse. Yahaya Bello is a good example.

The govt may be a huge part of the problem but what about everyone else?

We all are doing at least one thing wrong that's not helping our country. I don't expect anyone to agree with me though. We always like to think of ourselves as the smart guys that does things solely for our own benefit not minding the effect on others.

Politicians will loot funds meant for the public good, Contractors will inflate cost of executing a project, employers will treat employees like slaves,paying them money barely enough for their needs. Employees will steal from workplace or even plan a heist as seen recently with some bank robberies.

Lecturers will demand money or sex for grades, students will pay or cheat just to get the certificate. People will abuse position of trust. Even clerics are not left out. We've heard cases of pastors or church executives stealing from the church.

Talk about the youths? We are at the forefront. Can't do any honest dealing online. Even the physical dealings sef, you have to pick a location where you won't be robbed or killed. I can order for one million goods on AliExpress and sleep in peace but can't send 20,000 naira to a business person I've not met before on Nairaland because I fit don enter one chance. Honest Nigerians are even scared to disclose their identity when doing business online. Thanks to the activities of Hushpuppi, Invictus Obi, and many others not so popular.

Talk about systemic corruption, civil servants are are not left out. Defrauding the govt is common among them. One person taking salary of ten people under ghost employment. Won't sign documents if you don't give tips, security protocols won't let you see oga if you don't give tips. Private organizations are not left out too.

I was on the job vacancies thread during the NDLEA online recruitment. The reason why many people are interested in the job is because they believe one can make fast money from collecting scheduled bribes from the people they're meant to bring to justice. When they don't get the job (which many probably won't), they blame the politicians for job racketeering.

Report that a cleaner returned lost money to the owner and you'll hear things like na suffer go kee dis one, God don pick im call but the idiot hang up. These are the same set of people blaming the woes of the country on the politicians. What they lack is the opportunity to do worse than the politicians are currently doing.

The police officer you despise was once like you before taking up the job. The intimidating SARS officers didn't drop from the sky. If you have a soldier friend and you have a disagreement with someone, dat pesin don hear am cos you go use your soldier friend intimidate am.

Crazy country with self-righteous citizens!

Politicians won't obey traffic rules. Their security escort must clear the path so they can hurry along. Where are they in a hurry to? Even rich folks will request for private security from the police to guide their houses simply because they have the money. And when we leave the shores of this country, we behave ourselves out there. Something we've refused to do here.

Whenever you feel like laying blame on the politicians, think about what you're doing that's not helping Nigeria. Maybe if we all start doing this, our country will become better.

God bless you for this comment! It's a thing of joy seeing someone that sees things in this light.

I try in my own little way to correct people who curse others for doing the right thing, such as returning lost or misplaced valuables. Sadly, I am not sure if what I tell them has any effect.

You'd even be shocked that people you thought are religious even have these erroneous views.

Yet, everybody na holy pass when talking about what politicians do.

makaecoman:
BufordFlorist//com Sales price: $500 Sales Venue: Dan Purchase venue: Dynadot Picked from: Expireddomains//net Hold time: 1 day
God is the Greatest!

He is indeed! This sale weak me o.

Not in this case, They should be given a full loaf of bread. You guys fired them in the middle of global recession. Am not sure if you are into business, but currently taxes are pretty damn high, or did I also mention $~450, which means imports are expensive. look around price of things keep increasing. I rather give my cousins that 300k with no interest than let them collect it from the FG.

The minimum should be 500k loan with no interest. let these people have some hope please. Get profits through taxations instead

You're not wrong. But what I was getting at is you should consider that side-by-side with what's obtainable. You're talking about the ideal, which is hard to obtain in this country.

I was coming from the angle of a government or country that doesn't care! You'd be surprised that many people would jump at an opportunity to get that knowing such doesn't come all the time.

Did I also mention that some (probably most) participants absent themselves from their points of duty as some corps members do? Both the "leaders" and followers are culpable in this country.

sbrack:
Kindly share me the opportunity sir

This again is a surprising question. I mean this post is in the business section!

Ok, simply look at the "Business" above this thread (before the title) and click. Alternatively, visit https://nairaland.com/business.

Take time to look through threads on the first and second pages, at least. You should find at least one idea you can take a closer look at. You may ignore those asking you to drop phone number and email address.

Capisce?

DelilahMakinde:
Well let's thank our stars, it's NOT you

That one dey sha. But as I don talk now, the guy no go give you in particular one Kobo.

SpecialAgent:


So you used two full years out of thier lives and then the best you can think of is 300k loan as retirement benefit.

AM SURE the loan has interest too

Nigerians! What do NYSC members get after receiving pittance for allowee for a year at the end of their service year? Do they even get mobile devices that some N-Power participants got?

The loan could go a long way for those who have vision and business acumen. I want to believe the interest rate, if any, would be friendlier than what banks would charge.

No, I don't support the government and don't trust politicians. But it's important to note that half a loaf is better than none. Many people would jump at this offer.