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Whenever you need foods items and groceries or any other item of importance from Nigeria, we’re here to help you out, because we shop for Nigerians abroad and deliver to their doorsteps.
we encourage our buyers to place bulk order in a way to take advantage of wholesale prices and at reduced shipping rates. One of the things, we believe is, your favorite foods or items are closer than you think. The process is fast, easy and affordable.
How I started personal shopping for Nigerians abroad?
Hello my fellow Nigerians, my name is Kolawole Adeyeye, I am the founder of Digital and Business Merchandise Limited (DBML) and I left my 9-5 job to do this business, and coupled with other businesses I manage. You know as a Nigerian; the hustling spirit is always alive.
My friend Jide is schooling in the UK and wanted me to get him some personal stuff and he told me how hard it is to get some of these items around him. I asked some innocent questions about how hard or otherwise to get food and how he was able to adjust to the environment when he got to the UK and I listen to his answers and his tales. Within me I was like Nigerian foods and other groceries should do well. I bought what Jide wanted and added some foods stuff to what he sent me without letting him know. And I did that based on his lamentations about foods when we were talking.
So, when I dispatched the package, I told him about what I added and he was indeed very excited about it. He got the package within 7 days, I believe he missed and enjoyed the foods but he had a complain, and his complaint was that I did not inform him that I was adding the foods items. Jide sent me a message, asking how difficult to get those food item and I told me; it was not that difficult for me and the next thing he did was to write a very long list of his favorite food for me to buy and send which I did. That’s how I stated personal shopping in short.
It was very easy for me to send the parcels whether through air or sea shipments because as a former banker I worked with GTBANK now GTCO as a trade specialist and I have enough information about shipping, customs, trade and all, I also have contacts of many shipping agents and even at some point, I used to run a logistic business. So, it was very easy for me to navigate these areas.
The discussion with Jide and his request, made me to see food problems and difficulties in getting them. So, I decided to check my phone to see some of my friends abroad so that I can contact them and repeat what I did for Jide from Nigeria. My message went like this:
“Whenever you need foods items, groceries or any other item of importance from Nigeria, I’m here to help you out, because I shop for Nigerians abroad and deliver to their doorsteps, I encourage my buyers to place bulk order in a way to take advantage of wholesale prices and at reduced shipping rates. One of the things, I believe is, your favorite foods or items are closer than you think. The process is fast, easy and affordable”
I was so lucky to found out that four out of the ten people indicated interest and they send their list and I delivered. How did I deliver? Let me start with the ten people when I sent this message, these are people I got to know when they were probably processing their school fees abroad then, because I used to work on the processing desk while I was in the Gtbank, because it has been long, some people have changed their phone numbers and they could not identify who’s reaching out to them. Hence the number of people that responded. As a personal shopper, customers do send the list of items they wante and they will confirm the prices (mostly at wholesale prices) and the associated shipping fess when I send to them, you as customer will then, pay me in advance, I will buy those items and ship to you.
The major issue personal shopper like me faces is how can people trust me to part with their hard-earned money before I send them their items? I always say this to some of the people that raise this kind of concerns; I’m the founder of this company today with physical address below you can actually ask you relatives to check this if they are in Lagos and my story and experience of personal shopper started around July/August 2023 and still doing it now, I also give people the option of escrow service provider, whereby when customer confirm the prices and instead of paying me the money directly(because of trust issues), customers can pay to the escrow service providers with additional charges. In this case I use my money to buy those items and immediately I ship and I send them receipt from the shipping company then the escrow company will pay me. But in reality, most of my customers don’t want to use the escrow service because it’s going to be additional cost to them.
The process starts by sending your list of items and joining the WHAT’S UP GROUP or go through our CONTACT US and We shall process your order.
Just as I mentioned not quite long ago, again out of the four customers that responded to my message, two of them; Mrs. Adesola Hilary and Mr. James Nwandu had to say these respectively:
“All thanks brother, your Personal Shopping services rocks, it helps me to focus on other issues and the most important part being that I was able to get Nigerians foods and other items here in Canada which eliminates the need to go for shopping even though mostly, I don’t get what I really wanted; I have marked another date for my order immediately I received my first delivery” – Adesola Hilary
“I will definitely order again, my schedule is major issues for me, when it comes to getting food that I need, African restaurants and stores are far away and expensive, I think this bargain is the best for me and no food came close to what we used to have in Nigeria and now I can easily introduce my kids and younger ones to Nigerian food now that I have a reliable source for any type for items I crave for from the motherland”- James Nwandu.
I have been sending foodstuff to them whenever they need it since that time and alongside many others and I want you to join the list of my customers. My schedules at the moment for exports is now two times in a month, on the 15th and 30th of every month, though some people do ask if I can send them items outside those dates and the answer is YES, based on your request I will look at it and execute your orders accordingly. For instance, one African store in Texas USA ordered from me in large quantities certain food item in December 2023. I can do the same for you and just like Mrs. Adesola Hilary and Mr. James Nwandu or if you also run African/Nigerians stores, I can get those items for you, like now.
I have another list of NIGERIAN FASHION AND STYLE, here you will see different types of fashion style that fit you and I can get them for you from here, likewise there’s other agricultural products that I called COMMODITIES that buyers around the world might be sourcing in larger quantities, I can supply in commercial quantities.
The process starts by sending your list of items and joining the WHAT’S UP GROUP or go through our CONTACT US and We shall process your order.