The Online Mini

Importation
2.5
Business Guide
How to Import Stuffs Online At Dead Cheap Prices
& Resell For Big Profits.

Pat Ogidi ™
www.CheapImportationSecret.com
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 Disclaimer & Statement of Rights
The information presented herein represents the views of the author at the
date of publication. Because technologies and conditions continually change,
the author reserves the right to change and update his opinions based on
new conditions. Websites and references mentioned in this guide were all
valid as at the time of producing this guide.

This product is for informational purposes only and the author does not
accept any responsibilities for any liabilities or damages, real or perceived,
resulting from the use of this information.

While all effort has been geared to ensure reliability of the information
within, the liability, negligence or misuse or abuse of the operation of
any methods, strategies and instructions/ideas contained in the material
herein is the sole responsibility of the reader/user.

None of the strategies in this report will work unless you take action.
Knowledge is useless without action. Reading these pages alone will produce
similar results to not reading them at all, if you don‟t follow them and take
action.

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 Table of Content

Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………….... 4

What You Need ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5

The Import Portals …………………………………………………………………………………..… 7

Searching For Products & How to Verify Sellers ………………………………………. 10

Getting the “brother in-law price” & Free Shipping ….……………………………… 14

Escrow - What the Heck Is It? …………………………………………..…………………….. 18

Making Payments with Your ATM Card ……………………………………………………… 20

Tracking Shipment, Confirming Delivery & Opening Dispute …………………… 23

Drop shipping – What Does It Mean? ……………………………………………………….. 26

Some Hot-in-demand Products That Can Make You Money Fast ……………… 28

How To Market Your Product Even Without A Website ……………………………… 39

Receiving Your Goods & Making the Postman Your Friend ………………………. 47

Make More Money Teaching People Your Importation Ideas ……………………. 49

Miscellaneous ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 50

Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………………………..… 54

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 Introduction
Thank you for purchasing this guide. It‟s my desire to show you all the
things I promised on my official website, which will enable you to
successfully start and run your mini importation business without losing your
shirt.

I‟ll try to make this guide as brief as possible. No bluffs!

If you‟re just learning about the business of ordering items cheap online,
and reselling at three to five times the cost prices, I suggest you read the
guide about two to three times before taking action.

For now, welcome to “The Online Mini Importation Business”

Again, because my wish is to make this report witty and straight to the
point, I‟ll be cutting to the chase. Whatever I don‟t talk about here, you
probably would not need… Period!

If by chance, you need any further clarification, feel free to hit me up at the
email address at the bottom of this report.

Let‟s roll…

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 What You Need
To successfully transact with the import portals I‟ll be revealing in this guide,
you need to make these materials available first;

 A means of making payment to the import portals – Not until recently,

I‟ve been using a debit ATM card issued by a Nigerian bank for all my
payments online; yes, a Nigerian bank known as United Bank of Africa
(UBA). The name of the card is UBA Africard.

Here‟s what it looks like:

The card can be obtained from any branch of UBA. As at the time of
producing this guide, you don‟t need to be an account holder with the
bank to apply for this card.

The card is of two types; the personalized and the non-personalized.

Simply go for the non-personalized so you get it instantly upon

applying.

All you need is a valid identity which should be any of international

passport, drivers‟ license or national ID card (In line with the new CBN
directive, I guess they should start accepting voters card now. Not
sure!).

You also need a minimum of N500 (five hundred naira), though some
of my students have claimed that they got their own without paying a
dime.

This card has a 10 digit number at the back. This number serves as
your account number. To fund the card, simple pay into the account
number at the counter.

If you need further clarification on how to obtain this card, please

watch the first 2.20 minutes of this short video tutorial
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 Addendum: I‟ve also confirmed that the ATM cards from GTB, Fidelity,
UBA and Zenith Banks are accepted on these import portals. I‟ve
personally used that of GTB, UBA and Fidelity and they worked
perfectly well.

So, if you already have any, use it! No need going for the UBA
Africard. Except you enjoy having a lot of cards in your wallet 

That settles the payment issue.

The next thing you‟ll need is…

 A Valid Home Address – This is very important. Even though most

courier companies would prefer to call you up to come pick up your
item from their office, you need to make sure the address you use as
your shipping address is easily traceable.

In case the item is sent to you address, you might end up not
receiving your package if you supply an address like P.O. Box 4 Ikeja
or so.

If you think your address is not traceable or you‟re not too sure about
it, please use your office address or a friend‟s address that is ok.

Something like; No. 39 Pat Ogidi Street, Off Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos
is cool. Make it as much as traceable and reachable as possible!

Also make sure, you find a way of including your mobile phone number
in the address. 99% of the time in my own case, they courier guys
called me up on phone to come pick my package.

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 The Import Portals
Now, there are lots of portals out there that claim to sell items at cheap
prices. While a handful of them are genuine, a good number are rippers and
scam.

I‟ll be saving you all the stress of verifying and ascertaining whether an
import portal is worth doing business with.

Hence, will be showing you about 5 trusted import portals (I promised 4 in

my sales letter right, but I‟ll be giving you one more, if not even more)

It‟s worthy of note that I‟ve verified these portals and have used them
successfully at one point or the other, as at the time of producing this guide.

But because of the way things change, I advise you to also do you due
diligent research before dealing with them.

Below are the websites I recommend;

- Aliexpress.com - My fav! Aliexpress.com is my favorite! I do 50% of

my shopping on Aliexpress. As a matter of fact, if you decide to focus
on this website alone, you can still make a lot of money.

- DealExtreme.com – Another great portal I use often! Next on my fav

list. I do 40% of my shopping here. Please, hold yourself while surfing
around this site, to avoid screaming to the extent of calling the
attention of your neighbors.

- Dhgate.com – Good, but I sparingly use this. Operates like Aliexpress.

- Everbuying.com – Good one too!

- iPmart.com – Best in phones, PC, Tablets.

- Lightake.com

- SourcingMap.com

- GoodLuckBuy.com

4 more portals as bonus

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Now, for the purpose of this guide, I‟ll be showing every illustration using
Aliexpress and DealExtreme. Procedures in the other portals are almost the
same, with slight differences.

Not to worry, they are little things common sense can put you through.

So, the first thing you do is to register at www.AliExpress.com

Aliexpress has made registration so easy that you can simply login with your
Facebook account without creating a new account with Aliexpress. Your
choice!

If you aren‟t cool with that, you can hit the „Join Free‟ to create an account.
It shouldn‟t take up to 3 minutes, except you‟re mouse freight.

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Upon successfully filling out your details and clicking on „Create My Account’
you get a message like this one:

Time to rush to your email, open it and click on the link sent to you from
Aliexpress.

If you see a page like this after clicking on the link, just know you‟re on
point

At this point, you‟re good to go!

Note: Like you read earlier, registration procedures in the other websites I
gave are almost the same… maybe one or two variations!

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 Searching For Products & Verifying The Sellers
Remember, these portals are some sort of organized marketplaces, where
individual sellers come together to showcase their products to the world.

Picture it like a shopping mall/complex, where different sellers have their

separate shops/stores.

That‟s why you could find a product sold at different prices by different
sellers.

That goes to tell that, while others are selling their products at cheap rates,
a whole lot are only middle men, who go to shop A, get a product for say $5
and list it in their own shop for $7. Don‟t blame them anyway…

And if that‟s true, and you have access to all the shops in a portal, why look
at the middleman?

Now, about searching for products… and making sure you weed off the
middlemen;

Before you ever try to order from any of these websites, you‟ll want to make
sure you bear the following in mind;

- Compare prices and quality.

- Check if there‟s free shipping for the product. Even if there isn‟t,
don‟t worry I‟ll show you my sneaky, almost illegal way to either
knock it off entirely, or reduce it to the barest minimum.

- Verify the seller so as to ascertain their past experience with their

previous customers. Image illustration on this later.

- Send a „dummy‟ message to the seller. I use this strategy to test

the seller‟s customer service efficiency.

You may want to send messages like “Are your products fake?”,
“Are you sure you’re going to send them if I order?”

Funny messages right? But they work magically!

The reason for this message is to simply work into the sellers
psyche and test how fast they respond. The truth us, if someone

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 takes time to respond to such attention grabbing messages when
money hasn‟t changed hands, that may invariably mean that the
same person may NEVER respond to some of your messages after
you order. Hard truth!

It may not always work, but it has worked for me in 85% cases.

Sellers that respond to such messages jovially, and try to explain

things to you, turn out to be customer friendly. Once a seller
responds, invite them to chat outside the import portal, like Skype
and Gtalk. Aliexpress chats are always unstable. I hardly use it.

- Always make every payment through the recommended import

website, usually credit/debit card, ATM, Western Union/Moneygram
etc with their escrow payment option. More on escrow later.

I‟ve had one or two instances where sellers requested that I pay
them directly, maybe to their PayPal account directly, or via
western union and promises to reduce the price of the product I
wish to order for me. I understand that the import portals get a
commission from every order made through their site, but paying
the seller through any other means apart from the escrow option in
the portal, puts you at risk. Avoid it!

If the transaction eventually turns sour, you might not be able to

get back your cash. You‟ll understand better later!

Okay, about the searching… let‟s say, we want to buy an android from
aliexpress.com

Here‟s the result of my search:

Note the ticked boxes – “free shipping and Top rated”

And below is the result of the above search;

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Now, if you look at the prices, you‟ll notice they are damn cheap. Isn‟t it?
The first one is about $58.20 which is barely N9,280.

The next thing you‟d do is to click on each of the results to further dig deep
into the product and know more about the seller and the experiences of
customers.

So, let‟s click on the first result;

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From the image above, you will notice that the seller has got great positive
feedbacks… 809, which is about 95.2%

He ships out within 4 days of ordering. You‟ll also notice that the seller is
online, so you could start up a live chat with him to find out more about the
product and how it‟s going to get to you.

The next thing you may want to do is to click on the feedback link on the
page to read feedbacks,

You can see from what past buyers had to say, that this particular seller has
nice great ratings, so fit to do business with. Settled?

For a quick guide on how to search for products and order, click here

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 Getting the “brother in-law price” Price & Free
Shipping on 98% of Your Orders.
Chances are that you purchased this guide because of this tip 

If that‟s the case with you, I won‟t disappoint you either.

Let‟s get down on it…

Getting sellers to relax their conditions is not difficult as many people think.

Now, all the products on these import portals are pre tagged with specific
fixed prices… but with much familiarity, you can get the sellers to either
reduce their price or wave off the shipping fee. This trick works!

Here‟s a little sneaky trick I use; it has proven to work 98% of the time.
Please, do not abuse it… it‟s nothing black hat, but you can call it white hat.

Let‟s go…

First, I get them to chat with me on Skype… this portrays some level of
seriousness in you. They start to wonder why this buyer has opted for
something a little bit different. “He/she could be a serious buyer” they
wonder!

Be friendly with them… crack jokes and try to develop personal relationship
with them. If possible, ask for their phone numbers, yes call them if you
can!

I tell them I‟m a wholesaler in my country, and that I am new to Aliexpress

(or any of the portals!), hence, looking for trusted suppliers who will be able
to do serious business with me at favorable prices. (The „new to Aliexpress‟
stunt drives them nuts!)

Tell them how there‟s great demand for their product in your country, and
that you‟re currently trying out a couple of sellers on the import website…

Whoever sells to you favorably automatically wins your heart and becomes
your lifelong supplier.

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Just tell them you‟re interested in their product… and if they can promise to
serve you favorably, you can forget every other seller you ought to have
contacted and order from them.

At this point, the seller should say YES… we‟re ready to serve you. Fine!

Ask them if they can reduce the price for you (if the product comes with free
shipping already) or knock off the shipping fee for you (if you‟re okay with
the product price)

Because of the picture you painted (wholesaler in your country, and that‟s
what you intend to be… isn‟t it?), they will likely want to make you a lifelong
customer.

Hence, may want to relax their conditions to win you over.

Now, don‟t expect to win on every case using this method. Atimes, you may
find stubborn sellers stick to their conditions. In such case, you either dance
to their tune or move to the next shop. Remember, there are thousands of
them in each of the portals.

The truth is, if you do your homework well, build a tight rapport with the
seller, you must get some sort of discounts from the original price.

Let‟s look at another example, a product that requires you to pay shipping
fee.

You find a product that comes with some shipping fee… (Shipped through
either DHL, FedEx or EMS!)

In most cases, except when you‟re talking about high priced products, the
cost of shipping a product through any of these aforementioned means, is
always greater than the cost of the product itself.

In that case, here‟s what you do to have the product shipped free to you…

Note: I can guaranty that you‟ll get free shipping for all products that come
with some shipping fee, but won‟t guaranty that 100% of the time, you‟ll get
your item shipped free via any of DHL, FedEx or EMS.

Get that?

Free shipping all the time, but must not be shipped via any of DHL or
EMS.

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You know the reasons already!

The costs of sending via DHL, FedEx or EMS is higher… and except either
you‟ve built a tight relationship with the seller or you‟re buying a good
number of their products; they‟ll always be slow to give a nod to your free
shipping request via any of these means. It‟s understood!

The truth is, almost all the sellers in these portals (especially Aliexpress)
would easily ship your goods to you for free via any other means apart from
DHL, FedEx and EMS… if you use the sneaky trick I talked about earlier very
well.

Let‟s look at a practical case study of mine…

I wanted to order this for my woman!

It‟s a fine simple lady‟s candy clutch bag… but goes with a shipping cost via
EMS.

I got the seller chatting with me, and requested that she wave the shipping
fee.

Within few minutes of our chat, she agreed to send the items for free, but
via China Post (which should not take lesser than 14 days!)

But because I wanted the items to get to us faster, I pressed on to have the
bags sent via EMS.

Then after about 8 minutes of our jovial chats later, she relaxed her
conditions, which favored me greatly.

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She finally agreed to send my items free via EMS if the sum total of my
order is up to $300. Condition right?

I quickly, ordered and in exactly 5 days, I received the orders.

What‟s more…?

I got all my subsequent orders shipped to me via EMS for free, even when
my total order isn‟t up to $300. Ha ha ha ha!

$37.24/bag EMS shipping fee for each of the $4.89 bags waved!

Lesson: Building rapport and business relationship first, make the big
difference guys! Do it!

Thanks to my sneaky method.

Now, upping the total sum of your order might not be the thing with every
seller. The tempo might change with different sellers, depending on the
business rapport.

That settles the tip on getting the brother-in-law price and getting free
shipping!

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 Escrow - What the Heck Is It?

A lot of people get the idea of escrow wrong!

Escrow is not a standalone company or so per se… It‟s only a third party
trust arrangement, which serves to protect the buyer and the seller.

It‟s an arrangement by the owners/operators of the import portal whereby

funds are held by a third party (them) until it receives the appropriate
instructions, or obligations have been fulfilled.

Let me explain further;

Say you wish to order for a product on an import portal. You pay for it and
your payment is received and held by escrow (never released to the seller)
pending when you confirm the receipt of the item you bought.

Once you receive the item, what you do is to come back to the site, click on
"item received" or something in that line and the funds will be released to
the seller.

If perchance you do not receive the item, you simply complain (open a
dispute) and your money will be returned to your account after settling the
dispute.

If also the item received doesn't meet your expectation, you complain, send
the item back and have your cash returned to you.

No stories... no regrets!!!

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This arrangement not only removes the fear of being scammed, but also
create credibility and makes the sellers to be extra careful with the kind and
quality of products they offer.

It‟s important to point out that escrow is neither a company nor a site like
many people think.

“THANKS FOR THIS REPORT SIR. PLEASE I JUST TRIED TO TAKE A LOOK
AROUND ESCROW HOME PAGE, ESPECIALLY THEIR REGISTRATION PAGE AND
DISCOVER NIGERIA IS NOT AMONG THE LIST. HOW WILL ONE GO ABOUT THE REGISTRATION
IN OTHER TO AVOID MISTAKE. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU”

The above email is one of the many I receive from people, who have tried to
sign up for escrow at one site or the other. Funny!

For our purpose here, escrow is in built in the import portals…

Once you register with any of the import portals, you‟re automatically
qualified to use their escrow whenever you make an order.

It‟s only an arrangement by the portal owners to safeguard their customers

and keep a clean sheet, making both the sellers and customers happy at the
end.

All the import portal mentioned earlier have escrow payment arrangements,
though may vary in operation and name.

For more information, see the following links:

Aliexpress.com – More details here

DealExtreme.com – Click here to read it

DHGate.com - Read about their escrow services here

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 Making Payments With Your ATM Card
Making payments to these import portals are as easy as ABC.

Like you read earlier, you can use your normal ATM card issued by your
bank, so long it has MasterCard or Visa logo on it. Verve won‟t work!

With your card ready, keep your eyes on the following details:

Click here to see the different identifications in a card

Your card should have the following;

Card Number – this is the 16 digit number in front of your card.

Name on card – this is the name inscribed on your card, or in the case of
non personalized UBA Africard, the name provided while opening the
account.

Expire date – the expiry date of your card, usually written in this format
11/14. That‟s the expiry month and year.

CVV/security code – this is the last 3 digit number the right hand side of
the back of your card.

Billing Address – This is the address supplied when opening the account
associated with your card. Do not confuse this with your shipping address.
Except both are the same.

With all these details ready, you can proceed to making your payment for
your item.

So to make payments, simply add the item(s) you want to order to cart, and
then click on the „Buy Now‟ link; or whatever name it goes by on the portal
you‟re dealing ordering from.

If you‟re on Aliexpress, upon successfully clicking on the „Buy Now‟ link,

you‟ll be taken to a page that looks like the one on the next page.

If you and the seller have agreed in any form of price adjustment or so,
after clicking on „Buy Now‟, just before you pay… you will need to contact the
seller with the „Order No‟ so he can effect the price adjustment.

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Once that is done, you can then continue with the payment.

On the next page, you‟ll be prompted to choose the type of card you want to
use for payment, (let‟s say we‟re using our UBA Africard visa card) and then
put in your card details; and hit „Pay My Order‟

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Upon successful payment, you will instantly receive an email
acknowledging your payment.

In few days time from ordering, the item will be packaged and
shipped. Then, you‟ll receive another email from this Aliexpress or any
of the portals given:

That‟s it guys…

Simple right?

For that of DealExtreme, it‟s pretty simple. Almost the same thing.
Watch this short video to see how it works -> Click here to watch it!

Once your goods are shipped, you receive an email which will bear the
tracking details. These details will help you keep track of the
movement of your item.

So, in the next chapter, we‟ll be looking at how to track shipments and
confirm delivery.

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Tracking Shipment, Confirming Delivery & Opening
Dispute.
Once your payment is received, verified and withdrawn from your bank
account, the next step is to package your order and ship out.

Even before you order, the packaging and „ship out‟ time is clearly stated for
each product. Except this time is exceeded, there‟s absolutely no point
contacting the seller.

Also, within this „packaging and ship out‟ time, you can cancel the order.
This can be used in cases, whereby you‟re no longer interested in the order
or you want to make some changes.

For Aliexpress, the email that bears the tracking details gives you further
directives on how to go about the tracking.

You‟ll be given a site to input your tracking ID to get details about the
movement of your product.

If for any reason you experience any issues tracking your order, just contact
the seller and have him explain.

Once your item arrives, and it meets your expectation, you will need to login
to your import portal, open up the order in question and click on „Confirm
Order Received‟ or thereabout.

Make sure to inspect the goods received, and certify them okay before
clicking on the order confirmation link, as this action is irreversible!

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However, if by chance the item falls short of what you expect or what was
advertised, all you do is to contact the seller to demand explanations.

Most of the time, the seller will love you guys to settle amicably, because if
he doesn‟t and you leave a bad review of him, it will affect his rating and
subsequent sales. He may decide to compensate you on your next order…
either by adding additional items or sending your next order via DHL for free


However, if the seller is adamant and proving stubborn, proceed to clicking

on „Open Dispute‟ in the case of Aliexpress, to report.

If you open a dispute, your case will be looked into and decided based on
the facts you provide. This is where you can quote all your correspondences
with the seller, even before the order was made.
If the seller laid claim of anything about his product that later turned out to
be lie, say it and give proofs.

If judged in your favor, which would likely be the case if you present your
case with facts, you‟ll be required to return the item and have your money
refunded to your card with 5 working days.

In the case of items not received, contact the seller first. Then, if he‟s not
helping matters, contact the site admin with your tracking number. They‟ll
track the item themselves, and settle the matter for your guys.

Never be tempted to use this method as a way to dubiously get your money
back after receiving your ordered item. If you dare, you‟ll be caught pants
down and your account terminated.

For DealExtreme, the tracking is done right on their site. You just click on
tracking and every information you need is displayed right on the site. No
need to visit external websites.

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Here‟s a screenshot showing the tracking details of an order I placed
recently.

In the case of problems tracking your order on DealExtreme, you contact the
DealExtreme support, as you cannot contact the seller directly on deal
extreme.

Chat up their customer service via the „LIVE HELP‟ link on their site with your
order number, and they‟ll give you every explanation you need.

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 Drop shipping – What Does It Mean

Drop shipping is a supply chain management technique in which the retailer

does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders &
shipment details to either the manufacturer or a wholesaler, who then ships
the goods directly to the customer.

The retailer benefits from selling products to customers, without possibly

seeing the products.

The only thing you need to do is to get the orders from wholesalers/retailers,
and in turn place the orders on the import portals. Customers will receive
the ordered products directly from the import portal.

Here‟s How Drop Shipping Works;

John logs into one of the import portals and finds a product he thinks a
wholesaler would be interested in, at the price of $64

Let's say John succeeds in convincing the customer to buy the goods for $94
plus $10 shipping and handling.

The customer pays John $104 for the order. John logs onto the import
portals, orders the product and routes the shipping information directly to
the seller, and ensures that the order is shipped on time.

John is billed for the wholesale price of the product and shipping cost, which
are $63 and $10 respectively. Since John passed the shipping cost onto his
customer, he has made $31 profit on this one order. Great job John!

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But in the above case, John is required to do this with his money right?

What if John doesn‟t have money but has this drop shipping idea and how he
can make money with it?

Here‟s what John might want to do…

Say John finds another product that sells for $3.5 (That's about N560) each
on one of the import portals, let‟s call this product X.

John meets Tope who agrees to pay him N1,200 for each... (mind you,
product X sells for N2,500 wholesale price in Nigeria)

Okay, let's say Tope orders for 200 pieces... and to gain her trust, John tells
her to pay half of the total cost and balance up upon delivery.

So she pays you half of N1200 x 200 = N240,000

Half = N120,000

Now to get 200 pieces of that from the import portal, John will spend N560 x
200 = N112,000

John simply orders for the goods, keeps track online and once its delivered,
Tope balances up and John ends up making a profit of N128,000!

I think you grab the gist now huh?

How then can you apply this in the real world and make more profits for
yourself?

I‟ll be explaining that when I talk about “How to Market Your Product Even
without a Website” shortly.

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 Some Hot-in-Demand Products That Can
Make You Real Money Fast
Hey my soon to be mini import rock star!

Don‟t be deceived…

Android, blackberry phones and laptops are not the only items you can buy
from these import portals.

As a matter of fact, even though you can get these items at freaking cheap
prices on these import portals, they‟re certainly not only the set of products
that will make you the real money we‟ve been talking about, as far as mini
importation business is concerned.

Please, read that again and let it sink!

I see a lot of people… post everywhere online how you can buy blackberry
phones, laptops etc at cheap prices. Fine; that‟s true.

Of course, they may be making some bucks off it, but seriously… these guys
are leaving a lot of money on the table.

You can virtually import everything except human parts (LOL…) from these
import portals.

Here, I‟ll be listing about 10 products that are evergreen, and will be forever
in hot demand.

The first 5 of them are inexpensive products you can start importing even
with less than N10,450… (as promised on my website). These products are
not only in hot demand; also importing them will not leave a big hole in your
pocket.

The rest of the products in the list might somewhat require a bigger capital
to start, but are also hot in demand and can make you real money real fast
if you play your game well.

However, if you‟re just starting out and have limited capital, I advice you
start with the first 5 products, and advance later.

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The Inexpensive Product;

1. Phone accessories – You cannot only get mobile phone accessories at

ridiculously insane prices, but can sell them off fast.

My 22 year old protégé started his mini importation business from importing
blackberry covers, and selling in bulk to all these roadside phone accessory
sellers.

Phone covers: Needless I say that phone covers sell like pure water these
days. Don‟t be deceived by the cheapness, that‟s where the profit lies.

Here‟s the link => http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-10pcs-lot-Mesh-Net-

Hard-Back-Cover-Cell-phone-Mobile-Phone-Case-For-Blackberry/499498586.html

This seller is even ready to ship it to you for free via EMS:

Here‟s the link => http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mobile-Phone-Case-Gel-TPU-

Skin-Cover-Case-for-blackberry-9900-9930-Free-Shipping/494812743.html

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Solar chargers are hot!

The link => http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1Pcs-Solar-USB-AC-Power-Portable-

Charger-for-Cell-Mobile-Phone-MP3-Camera-Free-shipping-Drop/574491934.html

Find more mobile phone solar chargers at the link below

=> http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=solar+charger&catId=0&manual=y

And here => http://dx.com/s/solar+charger.html?GPrice=1.00&LEPrice=26.00

Phone screen protectors:

The last time I bought a screen protector for my blackberry bold 5, I paid
about N400…

But here, you can get 20 pieces at N1,232 ($7.7), which amount to about
N60 per piece. Even if you sell at N150 to retailers, you‟ll still end up making
over 100% profits.

Find cheaper mobile phone screen protector here

http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale/wholesale-screen-
protector.html?CatId=509&manual=y&pvId=200000719-200002471

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Phone batteries:

Blackberry bold 5 battery sells for about N5,000 in Nigeria. That‟s if you‟re
lucky to get the original. But this seller is selling his for $12.96 (N2073)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/J-M1-JM1-Battery-For-BlackBerry-Bold-
9790-Curve-9380-Bold-Touch-9900-9930-Torch-9860/551855179.html

Don‟t mind the shipping fee there… Use the tips I talked about earlier and
you‟ll be fine.

Memory cards:

Here‟s a 4 gig memory card for only $5.99 – See it

32GB Memory card for N14.99 – click here

2. Computer accessories –

Multi USB Cables for only $2.4

Click here to check it out on DealExtreme page.

Bluetooth Adapter:

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I once ordered 100 pieces of this from this link at $1.80 (about N288) and
sold to a computer shop owner in Owerri at N370.

Mouse: Check out see how much you can get fine mouse for
http://dx.com/s/mouse

Webcams: http://dx.com/s/webcams

3. Jewelries – Dealing on Jewelries alone can make your account officer

quietly invite you to teach him/her your secret. Teach him but charge him
heavily!

See;

That‟s from Aliexpress. Here‟s the link to get it.

Get it here.

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Get it here

This one is a Charming White Stainless Steel Lady's Crystal Quartz Wrist
Watch for only $6.15. Get it here

Follow this link for more jaw dropping cheap jewelries you can import now
and make big cash from.

4. Watches – I shouldn‟t have included this o! This product alone has made
me more money in 3 months than the annual salaries of most bankers.

I know of another guy in Lagos who‟s banking it big importing and selling
only watches.

And guess what?

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This guy started selling just from his Facebook fan page… only got an office
recently. Take a look at his website www.watchlocker.net and see how much
he sells his watches.

When it comes to importing watches that people will rush and buy from
you… I‟ll recommend two links to sellers I‟ve been buying from for some
time now.

Both of them are from DealExtreme.

I ran into this watch by accident… reluctantly, I bought one for myself.

By the time it came back, almost every guy that saw it on me fell in love
with it and were ready to buy it for N10,000 to N15,000… (a glaring
indication that it‟s going to make a good market)

Finally, I sold it for N12,000

Ever since then, I‟ve been ordering this watch in hundreds and selling off at
N8,500 per piece to a watch seller in my neighborhood.

Here‟s the link, in case if you wish to get it too.

The other one is a lady‟s watch I just got for my woman.

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That‟s $4.58, which is equivalent to N730 or so…

Now, how much do you think such watch will go for in an average Nigerian
fashion shop?

As a matter of fact, I spoke with a watch dealer in Nigeria about buying this
same watch in bulk from me, and she gladly agreed to pay me N2,200 per
piece.

That‟s to say that, if I end up selling 100 pieces of this same watch to this
lady, I would have made 100 x 1,470 (N2,200 – N730)

That‟s a whooping N147,000 cool cash… (you can do this over and over in a
month, right from your computer or cyber cafe)

Here‟s the link to the watch.

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The above images are the result of a search I just did on Aliexpress…

It brought forward some nice sexy watches. Follow this link to see it.

Here are some of them;

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These are the same watches the likes of which Watch locker and co sell for
hundreds of thousands.

5. Other Inexpensive Importable Products – I‟ll be grouping every other

inexpensive products you can import to make quick cash here.

Ladies Brazilian Hair: - Click here to see for yourself.

Follow this link to see more.

Body electronic massager – Gym houses go gaga for this one. All you need
do is to get some samples, then contact gym operators and have them
introduce their customers for a commission.

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Here‟s the link to some sellers Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5

Under $2 hot in demand gadgets - http://dx.com/gift-ideas/Under5

Under $10 gadgets - http://dx.com/gift-ideas/5to10

The Slightly Expensive Products;

1. Women‟s beauty products – Like Bags, Shoes, Hair, Jewelries etc

2. Blackberry Phones – When the price of blackberry bold 5 was about

N90,000 in Nigeria, I got mine for N57,000.

If you‟re looking at the business side of it, I‟ll advise you stick with the low
cost blackberry phones, like curve 2 and 3. They sell more!

My Best & Cheapest Blackberry Stores => Store 1 | Store 2 | Store 3

3. Android phones – Android phones sell very well too. Just got this one for
myself

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Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 |

4. Home Accessories – Like washing machine, yam pounder etc.

Link here

5. Wears/Clothings – Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 | Link 6

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 How To Market Your Products Even
Without A Website
It will almost amount to a total waste of time and resources if you succeed
in importing stuff at dead cheap prices and end up getting stuck with
distributing and selling them off to make profit.

As a matter of fact, any serious importer would want to make sure there‟s a
market already for his/her products even before s/he imports.

That‟s why in this chapter, I‟ll be handing you some fail proof methods to
sell your imported products even without a website.

Yes, without a website!

Let‟s go…

 Facebook:

How many times have you logged on to Facebook to find people advertising
stuff by the right hand side of your screen?

In case you don‟t know? Many of these guys that advertise their business on
Facebook do not even have an office!

Yes, they sell their stuff right from their Facebook fan page.

Okay, let me give examples of people doing it right here in Nigeria…

 Cheapest Original BlackBerry Phones For Nigerians:

That dude imports refurbished original blackberry and sell for as low as 7k to
people via his fan page.

Don‟t ask me where and how he imports them… I won‟t even tell you to go
put on your goggles and re-read page 7 

What about this big time watch seller that owns watchlocker.net?

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He‟s a close friend… and has been selling watches on his fan page for over a
year before getting a physical office in Lagos recently.

How do they do this?

Simple!

A simple Facebook fan page which is free, then promote it with Facebook
ads

Let‟s say you wish to sell something like Android, what you do is to create
something like „Cheap Android Phones For Nigerians‟, advertise it to get
targeted fans to it, and then sell to the fans of your page using simple status
updates.

Simple right?

First, you create Facebook fan page. Here‟s the link to create one. It‟s free!

The next thing you would want to do is to adorn it with nice timeline cover
and profile images.

Check out the “Cheapest Original BlackBerry Phones For Nigerians” to see
how it looks.

You can have a graphic artist do that for you… or better still outsource the
whole of the fan page creation to folks on fiverr for just $5.

This fiverr gig is just perfect for that http://fiverr.com/tiriinx/create-a-

facebook-fan-page

For help on how to pay to fiverr, you can talk to me at the email address at
the bottom of this guide. I could help!

Once your fan page is ready, the next thing is to get targeted fans to join
your page, using paid Facebook ads.

Yes, spend some money here. It‟s not only worth it, but the fans of your
page become your loyal customers forever.

Another way to get fans to your page is to search around Facebook for
pages with good number of fans – from 30k fans upwards. Contact their

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admin and pay them to have your message with your page link attached
posted on their wall.
This way, you get a lot of people to join your page.

However, if you‟re going to be using the paid status update method, you
may want to create a tab/app like this to make sure you convert more of
those visiting your page from the other page to fans.

With simple status updates, you can keep advertizing your products and
have your fans buying lots of them.

Here‟s what I mean;

As you can see, some fans are happy with those sellers that they have to
even share/recommend the products to their friends. Viral ish!

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Basically, all you need to do is to build relationship with your fans, gain their
trust and no one will bother if you have office or not.
I bet you, if you have sizable number of fans and you‟re really serious, you‟ll
be doing sales of over 30 to 100 pieces of your product monthly… get your
calculator to work mate!

It‟s doable; seriously!

Now, even if you‟re making only N1,000 profit from selling a product, you
net N300,000 selling 300 pieces of that product.

Now, how many of our employees with masters degrees make that much

You can do same…

This is the same strategy used by the likes of Taj hair to sell hundreds and
hundreds of their hair products to their over 90k fans without any physical
office. Here‟s their fan page https://www.facebook.com/tajhair

What about my Abuja based client, Miss Bassey who sells bio Life Slim, a
weight loss product on her fan page here at N25,000 per piece?

No physical office whatsoever… fans place orders from their fan page and
they have their goods delivered to them.

Now, how can we apply the drop shipping method we talked about earlier
to this?

You already know what drop shipping is all about… Remember, one of the
reasons I recommended the use of fan page is to build relationship
and trust.

So once that‟s in place, you can simply take orders from your fans and
drop ship it directly to their address. You take orders from them, order
for it on the import portals and have the item delivered directly to
them, without you even seeing it.

However, you must ensure to have the expedited courier cost covered
so they get the item faster, and never have to wait a long time.

That‟s about using Facebook to sell your stuff.

Let‟s look at another method, which is;

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  Selling To The Sellers:

This method works like gangbusters too!

Let me illustrate this method with ladies hair.

What you do is to approach ladies‟ hair sellers for example.

First, study their products (hair) and ask them how much they sell.

Come back to any of the sites given in this guide and search for that
particular hair.

90% chances are that you get the products from the sites at prices 3 to 5
times cheaper.

The next thing you may want to do is to go back to the seller again, and ask
him how much s/he will be willing to buy the same products from you in
bulk.

Remember, they‟re in business, hence want to make more money. So, they
willingly will take you up… sometimes, may demand samples, but this does
not always happen.

Once an agreement is reached, get the products from the portal at stupid
prices, and sell it to them at a cheaper price.

That‟s all…

Selling phone accessories (pouch, casing, covers etc) and inexpensive

products with this method is easy.

You only need to strive to make the first deal successful, and you have a
lifelong customer who will always want you to supply more.

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  The Bait Or Other People’s Money (OPM) Method:

I talked about this method in my sales page. It involves throwing in baits

retailers cannot resist.

To perfect this method, I recommend you get a sample of the product you
wish to sell to them first. Yes, go order for 2 to 5 pieces as samples.

With your sample copies, approach the sellers and ask them how much they
could buy the product in bulk from you.

Let‟s say the product goes for N500/piece at the import portal.

The seller agrees to pay N1500/piece…

The next thing is to bring in the kicker. Tell the seller you‟re ready to supply
the items to them at N1000/piece on one condition.

… And that condition should be that they pay half or one-third of the money
in advance, depending on how much profit you‟re going to be making and
balance up once goods are delivered. Just make sure the amount they pay in
advance covers the cost of importing the stuff.

If they agree, and pay you half of the money for example (which is N750),
you simply go and place order for the product… and make some profits
(N250) even before the product arrives and you getting the balance.

Seriously, don‟t expect this method to be an easy ride. It requires some sort
of preaching and packaging… you can always add your own twist to widen
your chances.

In my case, one in about twelve persons took me up on this method.

The idea should be, if you‟re just starting and looking to raise some funds to
finance your importation business, this method fits in.

It should work best on people you already have some sort of relationship
with – your colleagues, friends, family members etc.

I earlier called it, OPM… other peoples‟ money!

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  Kill & Divide Method:

Lol! This method is a straight forward one.

It involves importing your stuff, take it to a seller who has a shop already,
reach an agreement with him/her to sell off your stuff and allow him/her
part with the lion share.

Say, you import a product for N500/piece and decide to sell it for
N2,500/piece.

Profit = N2000 right?

Just tell the seller to give you N1000 on each copy sold, and explain to him
you need to sell them off fast to raise cash.

Which means that even if the seller ends up selling each piece for N3,500…
he still pays you your N1000.

Crazy right?

The jerk is; because you offered him the lion share, he will stop at nothing
to sell off the stuff and make more gain, not knowing that you‟re also
comfortably making 100% profit even without sweating for the marketing.

This was the same strategy I used to sell over 200 copies of this watch I
imported from DealExtreme.

 The ‘Pick Up Point’ Method:

This method is a kind of a twist to the Facebook method.

It involves arranging with a shop owner… (What they sell doesn‟t matter.
What should matter is the PROXIMITY of the shop), drop your products with
them, maybe for a small commission, from where buyers can come to pick
them up.

Somehow, some people might not be too cool with paying and having their
order sent to them via courier, especially when you‟re doing business with
them for the first time.

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So, from your Facebook fan page, you can refer them to go pick up the
product from your point of collection.

That‟s all.

 Get A Shop:

Yes, if the money starts rolling in and piling up, get a shop! And if you‟re
already engaged with other things, get a shop keeper.

I don‟t even need to tell you that you‟ll be making double, if not triple of
what you‟ve been making (without a shop) if you finally get a shop.

No wonder my watch seller friend got his shop after over a year of selling
only from his fan page.

Now, a watch he would have sold for N45,000 from his fan page can easily
be sold for N50,000 to N60,000 at the shop.

That‟s it!

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 Receiving Your Goods & Making the
Postman Your Friend
Well, receiving your items is the easiest and the sweetest thing I‟ve noticed
about this business… because even if we end up buying stuff at cheap prices
and they don‟t get delivered to us, that will amount to total bullsh*t.

Depending on the courier service you use, your item could either be
delivered to your house by the courier company or you might be called upon
on phone to come and pick it up from their office.

I‟ve noticed that whenever I use any of China Post, Hong Kong post, my
package gets to the local post office (NIPOST). And what they normally do is
to call me on phone to come pick it up.

But, if my orders are sent via any of FedEx, EMS or DHL, 90% of the time,
they bring it to my house.

So, to make sure my packages are always safe… I found a way of

befriending the last person my package gets to before I get it.

I get their numbers and then try to chip them something whenever I have a
package.

By that, they handle my packages with preference and try to ensure they
are in safe hands… because they know I treat them right.

That‟s all.

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 Make More Money Teaching People Your
Importation Ideas
Now, ordering these items and reselling them here is a cool way to make
lots of money from online mini importation business…

But the truth is;

That is not the only way to make money from this idea. You can as well
organize small seminars, workshop or even a one on one coaching to teach
people how to order from these portals.

I know a lady here in Nigeria who charges as high as N45,000 to N75,000

per participant showing people these same secrets in seminars. I reliably
gathered that she has never recorded below 40 participants in each of the
seminars. Use your calculator my dear. Mine just busted into flames!

I‟m even planning on throwing such a seminar pretty soon

Still contemplating on it though…

But if I finally decide to do one, seats are going to be limited, because I hate
that thing called CROWD.

However, you might just want to check here to see if any is available and
maybe reserve your seat before anyone else.

Maybe, we can even partner and pull up one in your area if you like.

Or better still, you might even want to be a reseller of this guide you‟re
reading… yes, for purchasing this guide, I can create a system so you sell it
and we split profit 50:50.

I tell you, it‟s damn easy to sell 200 copies in a month… and if that‟s true,
that means you‟ll be pocketing half of

200 x N4,920 = 984,000 = N492,000 pure profit!

Interested, hit me up on the number at the bottom & I‟ll set the ball rolling!

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 Miscellaneous

 How You Can Pay For The Shipping FEE Yourself From Your End

There‟s the need to add this tip here because of the many requests from my
clients.

First, I want you to understand that the sellers on these import portals
whom you buy goods from are NOT the owners of courier companies like
DHL, UPS, EMS, FedEx etc.

There are also cases of some sellers charging you higher than the courier
company charges. If you feel a seller wants to take advantage of you, here‟s
how you can pay for the shipping fee from here, and leave the seller with no
option than to ship your goods to you.

Tell the seller your mind, if he reconsiders and make the shipping means and
the cost favorable to you, then stick with him and conclude the deal. But if
he doesn‟t comply, then tell him that you will like to take care of the
shipping fee payment yourself.

Ask him/her to supply you the weight size of your goods.

Decide which of the courier company to use, and also make sure they have
an office in the same area where the seller is located.

Next thing you do is to log in to the courier company‟s website (Google is

your friend!), and contact them.

Tell them you want them to ship your goods from the location of purchase,
and supply them with the weight. With the weight, they should be able to
tell you the cost of shipping your good down to you.

You can also visit the courier company‟s local office in your area if you like.

Go ahead and pay the shipping cost, they will generate an invoice for you.

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Next, go back to you seller and make payment for your goods, without the
shipping fee 

Supply the seller with the invoice details. Once your goods are shipped, the
shipping company will send you email containing your tracking code.

PS: This method is ideal for those who buy in bulk, and should only be used
in extreme cases. Do remember to keep a copy of your correspondence with
the courier company.

 Why You MUST Always Make Payment Through The Import

Portals’ (escrow) And NEVER Directly To The Seller.

You may come across a seller who would suggest you pay him/her directly
(bypassing the escrow arrangement), while promising to reduce the price of
the product for you.

Do not ever engage in such a thing. If you do, and there‟s any problem with
your transaction, your money will be gone. Always insist you pay via the
import portals. The escrow arrangement in these import portals guarantees
your safety, and will always help you get your money back in case there‟s
any problem.

 Always Choose Hong Kong & Singapore Before China Post.

As at the time of writing this guide, Chinese government is trying to stiffen

their custom policies. Hence, items sent via China post take longer than
normal.

So, insist your seller ships your orders via any of HK or Singapore posts
instead of China post.

Note that, Hong Kong post, Singapore post and China post are in the same
level.

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  How To Avoid Paying Custom Duties.

Custom starts looking into your items if shipped in bulk. To avoid this, ask
the seller to ship them in batches. Also, tell the sellers to declare them as
gift items, so you don‟t pay custom dues.

 How To Get Chinese Companies To Brand Their Products With

Your Name.

Branding sets you or your company apart. To have your name or your
company‟s name branded on your products, simply contact the seller and
request for it.

Normally, if you‟re going for bulk orders, you get it free, otherwise, you pay
small fee for it.

This is the same trick used by the likes of Ogbuawa, Udekings etc to get
their names on their products like motorcycles and generators. Don‟t let
them know I told you 

 Some More Steps To Determine A HOT In Demand Products.

Simple… spy the big players!

Go to local merchant sites like; Jumia.com.ng, Taafoo.com, Konga.com,

Dealdey.com and check what people are buying.

- Jumia calls them Top Selling Products

- Taafoo says they‟re What Others Are Buying
- Konga has it on their homepage as top sellers

The point is; having an idea of what people are buying places you in a good
position to know what to import that are likely to sell.

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 Conclusion
"If you can't fly then run...” - Martin Luther King Jr. said

Now, that you‟ve known the secret, won‟t you start your own mini
importation business importing something in hot demand right away?

Something that will sell fast… and will make you quick profits?

You‟re probably thinking of what product to start with right?

Okay, I‟ll give you an idea…

No, I‟ve changed my mind. I won‟t tell you!

However, here‟s what I suggest you do…

Scroll up to the first page of this guide… read to the page before this very
one. Make sure you don‟t read to this very page

… but frankly, even if you do not want to do the retail selling yourself, you
can still sell in bulk to the sellers and make your cash.

Can you see the price of the virgin Brazilian hair - $19.99?

How much did you pay for that same product the last time?
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This is exactly what these guys here do –

https://www.facebook.com/tajhair
https://www.facebook.com/junaprin

They get all their clients from Facebook like I showed you earlier!

You too can do better!

What about these guys here –

http://www.facebook.com/WatchLocker
http://www.facebook.com/RedluxeWatches

They buy all those gorgeous watches you see around from here
http://aliexpress.com/activities/watches/index.html and other places, and
resell to you at big prices.

Go start something now….

We want to read your success story very soon. I so love changing lives

Testimonials make me feel like a king… please, don‟t fail to let me read
yours as soon as possible.

And if there‟s anything that would ever stand on your way to the top, don‟t
hesitate to let me read them on my email at info@cheapimportationsecret.com

We‟ll be glad not just to serve you, but to serve you right 

Thanks for your time,

~ Pat

Email: info@cheapimportationsecret.com

Phone: +234-809-076-9056 (Line opens from Mon – Fri, 8am to 4pm only!)
Skype: wealthlifters

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