It was a
beautiful Saturday morning, sometime last month being May, i had planned to go
to Ikeja computer village to get a new phone , i didn't have any particular one
in
mind but which ever it is must be a high end android phone with good specs.
There was no
other better day to do this than that fateful Saturday, having heard a lot of
tales about Ikeja computer village and being a newbie in town I saw it as a
great opportunity to explore the market, i got there and saw a lot of shops and
boys on the streets beckoning on me to buy their phones, I stopped to check
some and walked past some.
I went into
slot shop and checked a glossary of their phones available and they all
exceeded my budget of 20k for the specs i required, i decided to buy from one
of the guys i had met earlier on the streets, he had a Tecno w5 lite which was
remarkably new, i immediately fell in love with the phone and haggled the price
with him , having just 20k as my budget i made it clear to him, surprisingly he
agreed to sell at 20k, fine, he followed me to the bank there where i made an
ATM withdrawal , i gave him the money and he gave me the phone, i was busy
checking the phone out and making sure everything was working fine when he immediately
told me he wasn't selling again as the price was below what he bought it for .
He gave me
back my money n i returned the phone to him, and then i left . i walked a few
poles n decided to check my money only for me to discover to my chagrin , what
i had was pieces of paper cut to the size of money and folded in a bunch just
exactly as my money was.
at that
point i became agitated , i couldn't believe my eyes, i have just been
hoodwinked. I went back looking for him to no avail, sadly i went home, I lost
my 20k just like that to an idiot. That bright Saturday turned out for me a
very ugly one. Now i have learned my lesson never to patronize road side
sellers irrespective of how cheap their wares may be. computer village is rift
with criminals nad hooligans. Beware.
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