Buying From USA & UK

(AMAZON AND EBAY PRECISELY)

When it comes to buying from these two countries, Ebay and Amazon are the
major players. If it is USA, they will both be .com (i.e, eBay.com and
Amazon.com) and .co.uk if it’s UK.

Personally, I have never bought from the UK because things there always look
expensive to me (the POUNDS factor). So I will be showing you how to order
from USA here, although the processes are almost the same, or even VERY the
same.

I have bought from both www.eBay.com and www.Amazon.com, so you

should expect first hand information.

I am not going to start defining eBay and Amazon but the whole world know
them to be the world largest online stores.

You can visit the two sites and browse through the products they have in stock.
They are very easy to navigate, just like Aliexpress. The beauty of these sites
anyway is that, there are so many stuffs you can buy, from new the used, to
refurbished.

For Amazon, they don’t ship anything electronics and many other stuffs to
Nigeria, they only ship books here and for eBay, you will hardly find a seller that
ships to Nigeria, most of them avoid Nigerians because our YAHOO guys had
some bad records with them. You can easily use your Paypal account to pay for
goods on ebay and you can employ the services of the shipping companies I told
you earlier on.

So to be able to successfully buy stuffs and get them to Nigeria from EBAY &
AMAZON, we need to use a third party site. There are many of them out there,
www.valuehandlers.com , www.micostarmall.com ,www.myus.com ,
www.MyAmericanShipper.com , www.Shippyme.com and
www.CircuitAtlantic.com .
www.myus.com is the most popular among them

Why? Because they combine all the features… but they are the most expensive.
Combines all the features? Let me explain what I mean…

MyAmericanShipper.com – Will only give you a free address for you to ship
your items to. When the items get to the address, you can then arrange a
shipment with them.

MyAmericanShopper.com – Works very differently, you can’t buy yourself.

You will give them the link to the item you want to buy and they will make the
payment and do the shipping for you. Owned by the owners of
MyAmericanShipper.com

CircuitAtlantic.com – Works like MyAmericanShopper.com

Shippyme.com – Is owned by the owners of CircuitAtlantic.com and it

worked just like MyAmericanShipper.com

But MYUS.com will let you buy and ship to the personal address they will give
you. And yet, they can still handle the payment and the shipment but the
payment attracts a 10% charge on every item they buy for you.

This brings me to www.valuehandlers.com . As for valuehandlers, it works just

like myus.com but they are cheaper. You can go to their website to confirm and
compare the prices with that of www.myus.com

You can pay all of these sites using your Nigerian cards. You can
visit their website or read the FAQs pages to learn more about
them.

How to buy on Amazon

Just like I said earlier it is very easy to make payments on Amazon and Nigerian
cards, especially the GTB MasterCard works there. So it is better to always buy
your items there all by yourself. You can then have it shipped to any of those USA
addresses.

All you have to do is to change your shipping address to the one given to you
by MyUs or valuehandlers.

You billing address should remain your home address or the one that you
opened the account with. And you are good to go

Buying, Shipping and Delivery

Amazon online store is one the largest and trusted online shopping site in the
world with several interesting departmental stores online where one can
actually make secure purchases online and have bought items delivered safely
to your doorstep here in Nigeria.

The fact is, anyone can buy from Amazon departmental stores but there are
some destination delivery restrictions of certain items to certain countries for
reasons best known them.

The good news is that Amazon do online transactions, accept payments from
Nigeria without having to go through the back door. Read on...

Firstly, you can only buy books, gift cards, and flowers from Amazon, have
them shipped directly by Amazon to Nigeria with any of the locally issued
debit card information by any of the Nigerian banks.

Take note, you don't need to change your Nigeria IP address, Amazon accepts
Nigerians, both to sell and to buy goods on their platform.

Secondly, to buy anything on Amazon like mobile phones, electronics,

including automobile etc. and have any shipped to your doorstep here in
Nigeria, two things are basically involved.

1. You'll need to have a valid US physical address to use as a shipping address;

may be a physical address of a friend, business partner or relative living in
the US because some merchants wouldn't ship outside the US. He or She can
send received items to you here in Nigeria.

2. Acquiring a US Virtual address - You'll need to sign up with a performing

forwarding address company in US, there could be free ones, but I don't just
like free things at certain sensitive matters. I personally use a paid one for
over three years now to receive my purchased items on Amazon
without any funny stories whatsoever.

The valid US suite number, address and number provided by the US Virtual
Office Address company will serve as the shipping address...The also provide
you with a tracking system with chosen courier service under their
platform(DHL or FEDEX) to track your goods on transit till the get to your
doorstep here in Nigeria.

This is 100% legitimate, and you can't mess around it because during setup
and verification with MyUs.com, your real ID and source of payment will be
confirmed.

• Get any of Nigerian banks issued card [Verve, Master or Visa], GTBank
and Zenith rock good for me.

• Signup a personal US virtual address account with www.myus.com . You

can make use of the other USA shipping companies I told you about in the
importation business reloaded package. It would cost less because they use
other shipping method aside dhl and fedex.

• Open or sign up for an Amazon account, it's free! In your account

settings, use your regular Nigerian address for profile, update payment/billing
segment with your card information like your Names, card numbers, expiring
date, CVV( last three numbers written at the back of your ATM card) and
billing address on your ATM card account. Please ask your bank for more
information on that.

• Use the given US address and number obtained from MyUS.com to

update your shipping address with Amazon account.
Once a purchase is made after updating of your Amazon account with
the required information, Amazon will send item to your given shipping
address in US, MyUs will finally weigh received items on your behalf(your
given US Suite number) and bill you for the shipping to your choice of
destination including Nigeria via DHL or FEDEX.

• Watch out for when Amazon will be offering discounts and rebate
pricing, this could happen at special times and seasons of the year especially
MothersDay, Easter, Christmas, New Year Eve, or festive times, Black Friday or
Cyber Monday( a Friday before the thanksgiving or Monday after
thanksgiving), at such times, you could get 50 to 70% OFF on price tags.

How to buy from eBay

eBay seems to be a better place to get what you wanted. There are always more
products and even more sellers. And best of it all, you will always get the full
details of the product and sellers are more responsive.

First, you need find the item you want to buy. Let’s say I want to buy a
phone on eBay

Login to your MyUs.com’s account

Click on “Personal Shopper”

And click on “Auction Site”

See my red markers below:

Clicking on the “Auction Site >>” will take you to another page which is
where you will enter the details of the item you want to buy:

The details I filled above were for the items below:

You will find the Auction number in the website/auction URL (I have
mistakenly cut that here).

So when doing your own, you may want to copy those details from the page of
the product you are buying.

After that, MyUs, will send you a confirmation email, to let you know they
have received you order.

Then they will try to go ahead with the purchase. If they are able to, they will
then charge your card (automatically). If they are not able to buy (maybe the
item/listing is sold out), they will email you to let you know.

When your item arrived at MyUs, they will email you again. You will have to
arrange the shipment. You can find the items you have in your inbox.

On this, if you have some more packages to buy or that you already bought and
are coming there; just wait for it to come.

When you are finally ready to ship your items, they will ask you to choose a
shipping method. I have always used FEdex Express… DHL seem to be the best,
but carrying batteries is an issue with them.
You can pay all of these 3 sites using your Nigerian cards. You can read
their FAQs.

If you want to use MyAmericanShipper or you want to avoid the 10% charges by
MyUs.com when buying from eBay… There is an absolutely easy way to do it…

Just talk to Mr. Presegs Adesida. There are two things he can do for you:

1. He can buy for you, and,

2. He can help you set your account up.

To reach Presegs, visit his Facebook profile at: www.facebook.com/presegs

Maximizing your profit

To maximize your profit you have to buy more items. When you have many items
to ship, the shipping cost on each item is automatically reduced. If you want to
buy one Blackberry Bold 5, try to buy 4-5 smaller/cheaper phones. Or else, the
shipping fee won’t make it worth your time.

How to avoid customs duties

You can actually devalue your items, especially with MyUs. What I mean is this, on
every product you buy; there is always a declared value. So in order to escape
these custom thieves, make sure your final value is less than $600. I always keep
mine around $450 and always make sure your goods are marked as gifts. Please
talk to MyUs agents for info on how to do this.
How to market Your Products

Now this is the hard part but without it there is no business and hence no
profit.

There are several ways you can sell your stuffs. The easiest one is WORD OF
MOUTH. Yeah, talk to people in your neighborhood; let them know you have the
items in stock. Why not become a wholesaler to the retailers around you?

You can even go ahead and open up your own shop in your area and specialize on
sales of some items. That’s doable too.

You can also create a Fan Page on Facebook to advertise the items you have in
stock. For this to be effective, you might have to spend some money on Facebook
Advertisement

Put your contact details and people will contact you every now and then.

Then there are also forums to be used, nairaland, naijapals,

nigerianbestforum, etc.

You can also list your items on OLX.com, Dealfish.com, Kamyu.com, etc

The best way anyway is to create a website for this. You don’t even need the
website to be an ecommerce one; even blogspots are not bad to display your
items. Although the more professional it is, the better.
You can’t overdo when it comes to selling what is real.

Soon, you will get some regular customers and you won’t have to do much
advertising again (although, I strongly advise not to stop advertising).

And that’s it!

Go all out and make some good money for yourself!

Enjoy your shopping