Buying a laptop under N50k

Posted by Felix Okoli on Saturday March 29, 2014 at 13:29:1:

It is very possible for anybody to buy a neat laptop at the price of less than N50,000. It all depends on the specifications you want in Laptop, but the place to get this type of deal is when you shop online in a foreign sites especially on eBay and Amazon, but Amazon is highly recommended as there are a lot of scammers in eBay nowadays. You can also buy laptops under N50k in Nigeria from sites like Jumia and Konga.

Lets take a look at how a Person can order for a laptop without spending more than N50,000.

The first step you need is to open a domiciliary account with a bank in Nigeria, and convert the money into dollars in your account to enable you shop with your credit card. For this article, let’s say that the conversion rate is N160 to $1, this gives you $312.

- You will order your product from Amazon but before you go ahead with that, you need to get a shipping company that will give you a USA shipping address and help you do the shipping because, Amazon does not ship to Nigeria. Visit myus.com, open and account them, and they will charge you $10 to give you a USA address.

- Visit Amazon site and look for Laptops under $220. You can see very nice laptops that match your specifications that are well under $220. When you find the laptop you wish to buy, click to checkout, and enter that address you got from your US shipping agent as your shipping address.

- The shipping company will receive the laptop on your behalf and they will charge you from $40 to $70 to ship the laptop to your Nigerian address for you. Shipping takes a maximum of 7 working days for your goods to reach your address in Lagos

You can also try buying it locally at online shopping websites or at the computer market.