₦airaland Forum

deepwater:
You would choose manual over auto at -40°c and 5cm snow

Or in Sandy, muddy and other difficult terrains.

PROPEACE:
Manual transmission cars dont have any future in our world. The instructor gave you a good advice; learn automatic, but strong head and over sabi will not let you follow it. Go and continue learning your manual.

Manual cars has its own niche and it's own future. They have been saying manual have no future since the year 2000, but today major brands still make manual models.

Manual is better for commercial and transportation business, or for heavy use. Manual gives better control, acceleration and it's more durable. It is also very cheap to replace or repair.

Kobonaire4:
US and UK and many other countries developed when they were religious....

Also, if atheisim works, why did the USSR., a large atheist nation, collapse? THink on that.

The problem is not religion, it is funding, taxes, and governance.

Yes UK and Europe were very religious, but it was after people started questioning the authority of the priests and the authenticity of the Bible that development started.

The age of reason started by Thomas Paign in the beginning of 17th century led to scientists questioning the Church and many scientific discoveries and inventions.

USSR was never a nation, just as Russia now is not a nation. Even at that Russian scientists brought many important discoveries.

peacettw:
I am truly concerned about this news.. I understand the gains but then I am also worried that it can be used as a biological weapon of mass destruction.


What stops the pharmaceutical teams from engineering the sporozoites to be more lethal or resistant to known anti-malarial drugs just to study its limits?

COVID -19 has taught us all a lot. Let's not make the same damn mistake.

Why can we carry our own research and manufacture our own vaccines? Do we have to always depends on Oyinbo to solve our problems? Afterall Oyinbo no dey get malaria.

Octobertwentysix:
Since you don't go to Sunday school, hope you have been able to at least do something meaningful, at least they kept themselves busy by praying and increasing their knowledge, you have all the time as a result of not wasting your time praying, what theory have you propounded or is innovations and inventions for the whites alone. Una go just open una unintelligent mouth waa to talk rubbish.

It would have been more productive for him to sleep than go to Sunday school. His mind would get added rest instead of the same bullshit he has been hearing for decades.

I remember lots of Nigerians filling the churches on December 31st for cross over service, screaming the same bullshit they have been shouting for eons, like "this is my year of prosperity", this is the year of my breakthrough, etc. I asked wife that don't they ever get tired of repeating the same bullshit year after year, and the subsequent years is always worse than the previous years. I told her I can bet that this 2023 will be far worse than 2022, because the signs are there. And even before the end of the first month, Nigerians are already suffering like never before. Nigerians are beginning to fall down on the streets like flies "flitted" with raid or Baygon.
I shudder to thing what the situation will be by December.

Only a mad man does the same thing over and over and over again, but each time expects a different result.

everythinggirly:
I love science.

Don't just love science, promote science by learning and teaching others. Not just theoretical science but how to apply science to everyday problems.

Yusman316:
I also vehemently disagree with you. Religion does not prevent or stops anyone from getting knowledge, ignorance does. The current minister of Information and digital economy is an Islamic scholar and preacher but also a professor. If religion stops people from attaining certain heights in academia, how did he get his professorship?

Professor of what? What did or does he profess? Where are his academic and research papers? What contributions has he made to the knowledge pool?

Kobonaire4:
I disagree with you.

Religion has nothing to do with our lack of scientific development.

We are a country that relies on oil as a main source of revenue ....which cannot sustain all 200 million of us. We have chronically underfunded universites which are not allowed to raise fees, and that affects the quality of scientific development. And we have issues with power supply because people don't pay their bills on time, and this affects science growth.

It has nothing to do with religon. Many of the western countries had a lot of scientific growth when they were even more religous than we are.


The problem is, do you expect UNN to produce ground breaking research on a budget of 25 billion naira, when it needs ten times that...nay 100 times that?

Religon has nothing to do with our underdevelopment....the issue is simple. We got to stop relying on oil, improve our tax to gdp ratio and stop wrecking our power and petrol sector with subsides galore.....and maybe we will get somewhere...inspiteof the religous fanatics oppsoed to science.

You are oversimplifying issues.

The problem is more complex than just our reliance on oil. It has more to do with our reliance on foreign made finished goods, including food items. The problem started from the economic model bequeathed to us by the british. They made us produce primary produce for their industries, while we in turn became a ready marker for their finished goods. They made us grow cocoa, groundnuts, palm oil, rubber, that we don't eat, they in turn give us chocolate, Cornflakes, butter, milk, bread, etc, that we eat. That was the model at play even with crude oil. We give them crude, they in turn give us petrol, diesel, fertiliser, etc.

Why do we need to sell oil? - To earn dollars to buy petrol, diesel, fertiliser, milk, chicken, fish, etc.

In terms of education, the education they encouraged was to read and write English and to be good administrators to further their own colonial and post colonial interest. They never encouraged Science and technology education, which can lead to self reliance and development.

Religion was a major tool to keep us aspiring for science and technological advancement. We have more churches and mosques than schools, research institutes and libraries added together. You don't think that was deliberate?

As I said lack of research in our universities goes beyond funding, even if you give each university a billion dollars each for research, nothing will change. The money will simply be mismanaged and embezzled and our Engineering students will still be spending more waking hours praying than researching.

Kobonaire4:
No, the simple reason why we cannot do advanced research in Nigeria and in Africa is money...and facilities, and electric power. Not religion. I doubt the local Imam, or revenred bothers himself or herself about what they do in our research facilites self.

Once, a university in the UK got a grant of 600m pounds for research into Malaria. Tell me, who would give a university in Nigeria that money? In naira.?

The reason why we cannot do research is because of lack of money. Foreign countries have a lot of money to fund advanced research because they pay the kind of taxes and have the kind of tax to gdp ratio to pay for good universites, plus they pay tons of fees...even going into debt to do so. (at least in Nigeria, no one graduates with millions in debt), and they also pay their electricity and power bills on time, and don't subsidise education.

Here in Nigeria, we pay fees of less than 200 dollars a year, and somehow expect to do research that a university that has fees of up to 20000 dollars a year does? Like how? 40% of us don't pay power bills that are already very low...and yet we expect power 24/7 with what money? You don't pay the type of tax they pay in developed countries...and you expect good facilites and so on? And finally...you rely on something that at best can give you one third of what we actually need in revenue...and you expect to live like the developed nations?

You are here blaming religion. Some will blame athiests, some will blame FESTAC 77 for bringing in demons into the country, and some will blame the West. Yet, we will go and cheer as someone wakes up and says that we should chase away power companies officials from dealing with power defaulters because they are exploiting us. Or we would go and protest when it is time to remove fuel subsides...or we would go and cry oppression, when fees need to be raised, or the tax to gdp ratio needs to be expanded


Yet we want what the whites have at a fraction of the revenue.


Stop blaming religion. There are scientists who are religious and do extensive research. Just as there have been atheists who misapply research. But the thing is, all of us...the religious and the atheistis, and the traditionalists in this country.....have to work towards making our country's less dependent on oil and more dependent on industries, and also pay our power bills, and stop pretending that N400 can buy something that costs 4million, and maybe, just maybe...we may be able to develop the ultimate cure for malaria.


So, stop looking for bogeymen.

I vehemently disagree with you. Religion plays a huge role in our technological and scientific backwardness. First of all modern Islam and Christianity is against acquisition of knowledge. According to the doctrine of the religions, the Bible or the Koran is the only knowledge they would ever need. Remember "Boko is Haram ". Secondly, they make adherents waste most of their time, energy and resources in worshipping and religious activities, thereby allocating very little for acquisition of knowledge or research. Go to our universities, Students spend more time in religious activities than research. You will think all Nigerian universities have become convents, where prayers, fellowships, evangelisms, etc are carried out almost everyday.

Finally, religions make it impossible for people to work together or achieve a common goal, even in research and everything else. A Muslim would not collaborate with a Christian, much less an atheist. Even members of the same religions but different sects would refuse to collaborate on a research project.

I want you to see this 17 year old boy, Robert Samsone, who is about to revolutionise the electric motor. He does not have the millions for research just the passion for acquisition of knowledge and hardwork. He won the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair price worth $75,000 last year.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/

Kingpele:
Lols well the supreme Court can't be blamed NWC is the highest organ of a political party,so if they say they give ticket to Mr A ,is final..let's blame APC organisation of criminals and corrupt who robed Peter to pay paul

Then why the rigmarole of wasting time and money contesting for primaries? INEC should simply asked NWCs of parties to nominate their candidates, so the candidates should have spent their time and money on members of the NWC.

FreddieGray:
Your statements are punctuated with contradictions.
You seem confused.
It's very foolish to say America lost the ideological war but won the millitary war because that is a conflicting statement. Why? The Talibans fight based on ideology.

Secondly, a goal of engaging in a millitary conflict is to ensure that the enemy side is neutralized and incapacitated..I.e unable to pose further threat to your country (the US led coalition lost, the govt of Afghanistan is headed by the Talibans)

The Talibans prevailed over the US led coalition due to thier relentless fighting spirit and thier belief (ideology)
So, my dear, ideology is closely related and influential to millitary conflicts.

The US led coalition tried to break the Taliban, they tried for 20 years and they failed miserably!!
In an unsurprising move of betrayal, the US shamelessly abandoned it's allies.
The withdrawal is reminiscent of Saigon (Vietnam), another loss on the US list.
Real life is not Hollywood.
Tbh, your ignorance is not actually my responsibility..you can continue at your failed attempt to distort reality.
The US was defeated by the Taliban..those US soldiers that died in vain, what killed them?

It's you that is confused. You have not yet provided one battle on the field that the US lost to the Taliban. Even when there were less than 8000 US troops guarding Kabul by the time Biden was sworn in, the Taliban dare not attack Kabul.

The objective of the Afghan invasion was not to occupy and rule Afghanistan as a US colony. It was to overthrown the Taliban, install a democratic Afghan government and finally instil US values on its populace. Just like it achieved successfully in Japan after WW2. It failed woefully just as it failed woefully in Iraq. The people whom the US spent hundreds of billion of dollars to train and equip to be able to defend themselves and run a government refused to fight when the Taliban came knocking. They just handed the weapons over without firing a bullet. Now who do you blame for that?

To occupy and subjugate a country as big and mountainous as afghanistan, the US would have needed nothing less than 300,000 soldiers at the cost of trillions of dollars.
This was the same mistake Putin made, when he tried invade Ukraine with only 120,000 soldiers, when military analysts said he would have needed at least 300,000 to stand a chance of success.
A invading a country goes beyond winning battles and territory, you need to have enough troops to hold those territories, else the enemy would re-occupy the territories immediately your soldiers leave to fight in other areas.

FreddieGray:
Yes, shift the blame to the Afghan people. It's a behaviour characteristic of the US.
What I said is factual.
They always look for something to blame and take away attention from their own incompetence and failures.

so, who should be blamed for the Taliban taking over Kabul just 3 days after the US military left? Maybe its US citizens. Maybe you expect US citizens to fly to kabul to defend the country against the Taliban.

Since what you said was factual, why not give us links or reports where the Taliban won actual battles against the US military.

FreddieGray:
China and Russia are able to produce more weapons (effective and efficient) at a significantly reduced cost than the US.
That's a millitary advantage.
The US over inflated budget doesn't translate to competence and capability.
They (the US led western coalition) were completely thrashed in Afganistan (despite their heavy spendings) and literally begged the Taliban to let them withdraw in peace.

Completely trashed, how? Was there any battle the Taliban won against the US and its coalition? How many US soldiers died in direct conflict compared with those of the Taliban.

The war US and its coalition lost in Afghanistan was the ideological war and not the military war. The US tried to impose a Liberal democracy in Afganistan, and it fail. Islamic fundamentalist ideology won. The US equipped and trained the Afgan Military even more more than Ukraine, but the Afghan people were not ready to fight. The Ukraine people are prepared to fight even if given only spears and stones.

Once again the US did not lose the military war in Afganistan, they lost the ideological war.

FreddieGray:
Everyone look at map o.
It transited over the Pacific Ocean before it got to Montana.
The US could have detected it and shot it down as soon as it got to the US territorial waters.

It's not that easy. The US airforce and agencies responsible for monitoring US airspace first have to identify the craft, then the message has to pass through US bureaucracy until it gets to the commander in chief. The commander in chief then has to summon his defense chiefs to ask for advice before he can give orders to shoot it down.

Remember it's a balloon and not a missile or airplane. It cannot be communicated with. They would initially think its one of their own, an unusual weather phenomenon or even UFO. They practically have to send a fighter jet to get close enough to be able to visually identify the craft.

Goodvibes007:
Same here. I have lost count of how many times Atiku has switched political parties. He was once a big wig in APC. Even PO who seems to be gaining popularity among younger Nigerians was just a few years ago Atiku's vice presidential candidate in PDP. The chance of him returning to PDP if he doesn't win the presidential election next month is high.

The chance of him returning to PDP is not high, its 100% certain.

seunny4lif:
After the ballon flew over NATO most protected airspaces
Wait oooh, so does that mean Nigeria military have a chance against USA military as USA was unable to stop ballon for that last 12 hrs.
If USA can’t shoot down ballon immediately it enter her airspace then they can’t down Nigeria airforces, Buhari do the meaningful work now

You don't shoot an object you suspect to be carrying out nefarious activities over your land. It might contain a physical, chemical or biological weapon. Besides it could crash on someone's head or property.

They will know what it's mission is after they retrieve it from the ocean after following safety protocols.

In my own personal assessment, I doubt its a spy balloon. A balloon is clumsy and not easily navigable to spy on specific targets. A spy satellite would have been much more effective. And China has a fairly advanced space technology.

SlyFoxxEternal:
My personal view is that Nigerians do not have any political ideology. They vote along ethnic and religious lines or anywhere belle face.

They do. It's just that their ideology is not personal but tribal. The north is a feudal society and feudalism is ultra-conservatism. It is socially, culturally and religiously conservative. Literalism has no place in the north.
Aminu Kanu tried to introduced socialist policies to northern nigeria in the second republic, but his party The Peoples Redemption Party failed woefully at the presidential elections.

Enugurangers:
Same here. Honestly, I see myself of more conservative leaning than liberal. Most Nigerians would fall on the right due to our strong cultural and often religious upbringing, but MAGA Republicans gave conservative a whole new meaning. But I like to think I am not the only right leaning Nigerian that has been tagged a lefty on this thread. Ibime has been tagged a lefty, and Salford even though votes conservative in Canada has been tagged a lefty too on this thread.

Perhaps, you need to be MAGA/far-right (and support most of the garbage that comes with it), else you are a Liberal on this thread. Lol

Nigeria's political leanings depends on the region and tribe.
Northern Nigeria is about 99.9% conservative, in terms of economic, social and cultural consevatism. That's why they also vote conservative parties and individuals.

South West Nigeria is about 50% conservative and 50% liberal. They use to vote parties with socialists programs, well until this current alliance with the north.

The South East is liberal socially, moderately conservative culturally and highly conservative economically. They tend to vote with the north until the emergence of Buhari.

The South South are liberal socially, economically and culturally. Except maybe the Binis who are very tied to their culture, other tribes imbibe other people's cultures easily .

These are my personal views. You might disagree with them.

Enugurangers:
And both McDougall and Daniel said Trump preferred to not use condoms in the sexual encounters they had with him in 2006.

Daniel even complained that his J.T was similar to a mushroom. That's the conservative poster boy.

I had wrongly believed conservatism means religious piety, traditional family values, strict moral values and allowing law of demand and supply dictate business. But the new generation of conservatives led by Trump have proved me wrong.

CoolUsername:
Uhhh, I actually support LGBT people.

Me as a liberal don't support them. I have nothing against them, but I don't support them. They should keep their sex lives and preference to themselves and don't need to advertise it in our faces.

Enugurangers:


Zip up!

Against nature.

Even hard core conservatives, reverend fathers (including popes), Pastors/G.Os/evangelists find in impossible to zip up. They just hide and cover it until they are exposed. Some conservatives don't even bother to their zips anymore as it is always open ready for action, e.g. Elon musk. Even conservative God, Donald Trump boasts of "grabbing dem by the pussy" and pay prostitutes to keep quiet.

Enugurangers:
With almost 4 decades of living in Nigeria, I have never seen a drag queen aside those celebrities James Brown and Brobisky that we see on social media.

E surprise me o. That some Nigerians are so obsessed with drag queens, LGBTQ or whatever they call them, as if that is one of our problems as Africans. James Brown and Bobrisky are into it for business purposes. Others do it for japa purposes. Still others do it for ritual purposes (for wealth or for political power). There are very very few actual gays in Nigeria.

Our concerns should be the unfair trade practices whereby they force us to open our ports to their goods, while they close their to our own. They subsidize their agriculture so that food is cheap in their country, and tell us any type of subsidy for us is a taboo. They force us to produce agricultural food we don't eat to drive their industries at dirt cheap prices and sell us finished and processed foods at exorbitant prices.

CoolUsername:
"Oh no, he doesn't follow the new flavour-of-the-month left wing opinion. Must be the effects of colonialism. Now let me tell you why you should bring your kids to see drag queens."

You guys are so invested in right wing extremist concerns and ambitions that you completely forget your own. I mean issues that concerns you directly as a blackman. What concerns you with drag queen? Is drag queen even an issue in Nigeria?
Yes colonialism is eaten deep into your soul and that of most Nigerians - European colonialism and Arab slavism.
My kids don't even know what drag queen means before you even talk about seeing one.

I don't know what miracle can happen to raise black consciousness in black africans instead of thinking we are Europeans and Arabs.

Enugurangers:
MAGA supporters = Trump Cult (Trump can't be wrong).

Trump brings out the worst impulses in people. They lie without remorse.

At the heat of the treasonable statement by Trump that he trusts Putin more that the whole US intelligence establishment, his excuse then was that it was a slip of tongue and what he meant was to say was "I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia" instead of what he actually said "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia", when asked about U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in his 2016 election. Now they have forgotten that lie and switched to "Iraq's weapon of mass destruction" and Hunter Biden's laptop as the reason Trump trusts putin more that the whole US intelligence agencies.

Now ask them, are they now admitting that the slip of tongue excuse was a balantant lie?

Trump supporters are more likely to be rapist, multiple divorced, closet gay, liar, immoral, anarchist, and every despicable human trait you can imagine, but they would claim to represent the reverse like family, morality, God, truth, etc.

biosilicon:
Nothing unethical in what i did. I wanted 450k, read the chats. i got it and sold and refunded his money, i was so honest and open-minded i told him the truth. I could have gave some other excuse and returned his money.

If you had not wanted N450k why did you accept the N400k when he transfer it to you? What would have happened if he came to collect the TV immidiately he paid? Would you have requested he returned the TV because you found someone else ready to pay N450k?

GAZZUZZ:
I have known and transacted with biosilicon more than 10 times.

He is not a stranger.

The examples you have above are for total strangers, not your uncle selling your father's land in the village

Meanwhile which of you defending biosilicon will do business with him?

If selling what is not your is not fraud no problem.
New standards on this platform I guess.

I never defended biosilicon's actions. I am only pointing out the reality of business, particularly in Nigeria.

Some people adhere to ethics and morals in business, some don't. Biosilicon business philosophy certainly doesn't include ethics. What many people have pointed out is that though Biosilicon's action were unethical, it was not illegal, and it's certainly not fraud as you wrote in the heading of the thread. Our courts are full of people just trying to get their money back from transactions they already paid for but the seller failed to deliver and failed to refund their money.

Please move on, and if you are still upset by the failed transaction with Biosilicon, don't deal with him again and don't recommended him. This thread is already a sort of negative feedback and it will have some negative feedback on his business.

nymphomaniac:
it may not be tagged fraud but it is CERTAINLY BREACH OF CONTRACT.

Sorry to say, but it seems most people here have not been in business or have not been doing business for very long. Those of us with over 20 years experience see these issues everyday, and few people make a fuss about it. Paying for an item in an actual shop and coming back the next day to find it sold is very common. The worse is in land sale.

If you buy a land in lagos and don't assert possession by building on it. If you leave the land fallow for 1 years, there is a 90% possibility that the land would have been sold to someone else. Not minding the receipt and all other purchase documents.

House rent nko? Pay for house rent and don't collect the keys and move in immediately, 90% chances that the room would be rented to another tenant if you wait even just one month. In all these cases the first land buyer or tenant would be struggling to get his or her money back. Theses cases full court.

francotunsco:
Great judgement!
But, on the other hand, what if she appeals and claim that the man's spending on her didnt go for free as she was paying back in the other room! I am not just being funny, i need legal reaction to this.

Heyy, dont run away, we can manage your reactions too...

Is prostitution now legal in Uganda?

advanceDNA:
U cant force one to do anything that is not in the constitution e.g tax payment

, no one owes anyine marriage...... like i said...the man isnt directly sueing her for not marrying him per se....he's sueing for deception when she could have walked away when she knew she's not interested...

The loop hole to exploit for sueing is the damages incurred because of the person's promise.....in fact if there is no proof of damage as a result of the promise or no eay to prove her motive was greed he wont even get anything.....

In this case the man got compensation for damages becos its easy to show proof of damages which is financial because women with their greediness will collect money from a man....


If u read the case well....she said she ddnt want the man from the start....it was her parents arrangement..but shes as adult so she could have walked away or told the guy.....so greed eas involved from the start

If she had a genuine reason for not marrying him, e.g..he beats her or he's violent, or his salary changed or lost his job....the man wont get a dime

This is fraud, 419. And many women engage in this type of fraud and gets away with it. I know a very good example. It happened to a room mate of mine in the university. My roommate comes from a fairly wealthy family. So when my roommate found a girl he fell in love with, even though she was from a poor family, they embraced the relationship. The family took it upon themselves to sponsor the girl through university. Throughout the guy's stay at the University, he never looked at any other girl. The lady was admired into LASU, all through the efforts of my guy.
After the girl graduated, my guy decided to do his masters degree, so the family decided that the lady should go to London and await their son, who would complete his master's in less than two years. Omo the whole family was shocked when after less than a year of living in my friends uncle's house in London, she moved out. When they were able to reach her and ask her why she moved out, she said she cannot marry their son again because her pastor in her church said their son is not her husband, and that God has chosen another husband for her. See begging and pleading, my friends cousin in the same university travelled to London to beg this girl, she remained adamant. At the end of the day, everyone gave up. My friend never remained the same again. He left school and refused to leave his mother's house for a full year. At the end of the day, the mother sent him to America to try and rehabilitate him.

There are numerous other cases I have been oppotuned to be close to of ladies using marriage as a bait for guys sponsoring them to university and then dumping them immidiately they finish. One guy i met through a Hausa friend was looking for an assassin to kill the girl he sponsored to university and then ran away to marry another person. Me and my friend had to talk him out of it.

It poetic justice when courts make ladies pay for using marriage for defrauding guys.

Edopesin:
Since when did a marriage proposal become law binding? It wasn't even written and signed or anything, just verbal something

If she pay make I hear, unless it's a banana Republic over there

It could be. If sponsoring her education was tied to the marriage from the beginning. That is if the guys was paying for her university education with an agreement that she will marry him at the end of the studies. If she then changed her mind, then she should refund the money the guy spend for her her schooling.

Britishpea:
Videos of what you saw or you are just a whining baby

Abi oo. He wrote so eloquently and with beautiful pictures, but no video. Why? Would a video not prove those naysayers wrong and put them to shame once and for all?

As the day a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a thousand pictures.

valarinz:
Lmao, marriage is not business. No one is selling or buying anyone in marriage, you goofed with this example as well.

Let me give you as clear an answer as I can give as regards your first paragraph. The business is in two phases, first phase which is the purchase of item is concluded, second phase is the storage and delivery, in this case they both didn't make any clear agreement or arrangement on that. If the item catches fire whilst in possession of the seller then the buyer will take it up so long as he was paying for the item to be kept safely for him, but In the case the seller was just doing him a favour, the it's his loss(the buyer's)

It gets interesting if buyer starts to claim the item was burnt before his money was collected(in this case he paid without inspection). When most structured businesses sells you an item, they give some grace time for pickup after which they start to charge for storage.

One thing you're agreeing to is this: whichever direction it takes, both buyer and seller must come to an understanding and agreement. Whether anything catch fire, or break or seller just opt to sell or buyer say him no do again, both of them will reach an agreement on how to proceed. In this case the seller acted unanimously.

Have you also thought of this: he informs buyer there's someone offering a higher price (knowing very well the buyer was intent on reselling, he wasn't hiding it), and it could go two ways....buyer could say, ok sell it and let's share the profit or he might decide not to sell at all, and perhaps due to their cozy relationship opt to up his bid a bid to seller

Too many ways it could go Sir, but for the seller to just sell the item without consulting the owner and you say he's within his rights, thats a bad business practice. Cheers 😄

I honestly don't understand why we are in disagreement over this issue.
We both acknowledge that there was not agreement pertaining to the storage and shipping of the item, but you still insist that the sale is concluded. All sales have shipping arrangements attached unless it's a cash and carry transaction. What then happens if a seller unknowingly collects money from the buyer before realising he is out of stock? If there was a storage and/or shipping arrangement and the buyer had competed his own side of the agreement by paying the agreed fees, then the seller would not have any justification for selling the item. But as it is, the buyer has no legal leg to stand on, as long as the seller refunded the item in full.

When I was still in construction, I went to this big tile company to buy floor times, valued at over N1million. I paid fully, with a promise to return the next day to collect the tiles. On getting to the company next day, I was informed that the tiles was no longer available, it's either I pick a different design or they refund me my money, or wait for the next container to come in. What should I have done? Sue the company?