Shopping on eBay from Nigeria

Is it possible toshop on ebay from Nigeria? Why not? But there are some precautions you should take so that your account remains safe and not restricted.

Shopping on ebay requires two basic things really which are: An ebay account and a Paypal account. Yes, Paypal is the preferred medium for making payments on ebay.

However, shopping on ebay from Nigeria requires more than just 2 things which are: An ebay account, Paypal account, US shipping address, Nigerian issued debit card and a Non-Nigerian IP address. I guess that sums up to 5 things.

If you ask me, you should rather stick to shopping on sites like Amazon.com than ebay since it is a bit harder to shop on ebay from Nigeria than on Amazon. Amazon doesn't reject shoppers from Nigeria or block their IP addresses at least for now but the only thing is that majority of sellers simply don't ship to Nigeria but we've already solved that problem by making use of a US shipping address.

Now to the issue of shopping on ebay from Nigeria. How do you do it? Personally, for me, I only shop on ebay just to convert my Paypal funds. I do it by making use of the 5 tools I already listed and it works ok.

How to shop on ebay
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- First of all get a VPN service that offers you a US IP address. It costs about $10 a month
- Get a reliable internet service
- Get a Nigerian bank issued credit/debit card
- Sign up for a US shipping address. You can pay with your Nigerian credit card and also indicated your Nigerian address as final shipping point
- Connect to your VPN service to change your ip address
- Open a Paypal account(If you don't already have one) and use your US address
- Add funds to Paypal
- Open an ebay account using the same US address
- Shop on ebay and pay with Paypal
- Wait for shipping to your US address and track the items
- You'll get notified when you receive goods at your US address
- Order for final shipping to Nigeria
- Make payment with your Nigerian credit/debit card
- Track your item until it arrives Nigeria

Tips:
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- Get a US shipping account. Costs about $10 per shipment received and about $50 per kg for international shippin to Nigeria
- Focus on Buy not items and avoid bidding cos they're a waste of time
- Pay with Paypal. It is efficient
- Always make use of a VPN service- It chances your ip.
- High priced items like laptops, jewelleries and so on may get delayed at the DHL office due to fraud screening.