trading abroad

[cappy]

###while i was looking at exports world wise i contacted many chambers of trade around the world looking for agents to sell our goods .....one from nigeria wrote the letter on a scrap of lined schoolpaper in pencil .....addressing himself as a salesman renowned in all the villages for many miles and a person who had agencies from many countries with items such as......wigs long and short and many colours ...false legs highly recommended ....ladies particulars ....shoes all sizes male and female and glass eyes in two colours .....by then he had reached the bottom of the page ...where instead of putting PTO .....he wrote please see my behind ......my secretary wrote him a very nice refusal of his offer and said there was no way we were sending amounts of our products to his village etc and although it was much appreciated niether myself or herself wished to see his behind ......but were sure some other companies may.....ahh the vagaries of dealing abroad

[Stan Carter]

Cappy, those type of letters ( e-mails) are still coming, but a little more refined. Instead of asking for samples/ stock they are asking for capital to set up your/their satellite offices. I seem to be on first name basis with some of them.
regards, stan.

[Doc Vernon]

Nigerian Emails are a NO NO .
Keep clear of them at all costs! The longer your Bargepole the better! LOL
Many a poor soul has lost lots through these People!
Cheers

[Stan Carter]

Doc, fully aware of these fly by night con artists, the emails arrive addressed to "stan" but ditched as soon as....my charity starts at home with the cat..
regards, stan.

[Lewis McColl]

###while i was looking at exports world wise i contacted many chambers of trade around the world looking for agents to sell our goods .....one from nigeria wrote the letter on a scrap of lined schoolpaper in pencil .....addressing himself as a salesman renowned in all the villages for many miles and a person who had agencies from many countries with items such as......wigs long and short and many colours ...false legs highly recommended ....ladies particulars ....shoes all sizes male and female and glass eyes in two colours .....by then he had reached the bottom of the page ...where instead of putting PTO .....he wrote please see my behind ......my secretary wrote him a very nice refusal of his offer and said there was no way we were sending amounts of our products to his village etc and although it was much appreciated niether myself or herself wished to see his behind ......but were sure some other companies may.....ahh the vagaries of dealing abroad

Cappy, and you call yourself a business man tut tut. Thankfully I am well enough off to kindly refuse these well intended African gentlemen there very generous offers. On occasion they have been in excess £400,000. All I have to do is provide them with my bank details.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Have done business with Nigeria and they always want to open a Letter of Credit or a Bank Draft on a Nigerian Bank, no way jose! (may as well write it on toilet paper) the only way to do business with Nigeria is an Irrevocable Letter of Credit drawn on a first class UK or an International Trading Bank in the USA, but never with a domestic USA Bank. No matter how many precautions you take they will still find a way to try and circumnavigate the legal way, in the end for a small or medium size company you waste too much time and miss other business opportunities by dealing with them. As most of our equipment was custom made we always demanded 50% up front on a Irrevocable revolving L/C with no 10% holdback and insisted that they came to the UK/Europe factory to witness tests and sign the acceptance certificate and then realise a further 40% on signing and the remaining 10% within 48 hours on loading Bill of Lading.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Cappy.
We did have the phone calls every second day from India, my wife used to shout down the phone P$%# Off, then about a two months ago they stopped, at the same time all Spam mail stopped on my computer. Now, they may have been frightened off when just before Xmas my wife picked up the phone on one call and screamed "What the hell do you want now"? unfortunately it was my brother from the UK with his Xmas call. They probably thought if their like that with his brother what will they do to us.
Cheers des

[happy daze john in oz]

I feel neglected, not had a call for over ten years, obviously the 'do not call register' is working.
Get the usual junk mail in the post and the occasional e-mail which goes into 'delete' even without reading.

[Doc Vernon]

John
You are one lucky devil then mate as I have now registered about three times already and still get these irritating calls from who knows! Does NOT work for us !??

I am tired of trying to get on to someone who could help,all I can do seems is what we started not too long ago,and that is to quickly write down the callers Number (that is if there is one ,most are just Private Numbers) then I have to phone up Telstra and give them the Number and ask it to be blocked!
The ones that show Private Number we just log the actual time of the call,this in turn helps Telstra to trace it!
A bleedin long process but does work, as we check and so far no numbers that I have reported show on Phone Call Window.
I wish that they would review that Don't Call Register as said its to me a Farce!
Cheers

[cappy]

##as a matter of interest we got in touch with a nigerian guy who came to the uk twice a year ......he ordered ahead and we stocked his reqirements ...we then on his arrival were paid in full ....we then took these goods to his container and did the neccesary paperwork .....we often saw a mercedes car in the container .....we did this businnes for quite a few years .....then heard from his son who was at university in the uk....that robbers had gone to his house and attacked his wife while asking for his safe .....sadly he was macheted to death on defending her .......he was a decent guy ..we were told by him that on his container arrival in nigeria he had his own armed guards to stand by it after paying others there ...we lost a good customer and a good account.....much businnes is done in nigeria but only a fool would deal unless it was on his own terms....