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NIGERIAN LADY GOES TO THE MARKET!

The way Nigerians bargain for goods in the market,can be really wierd! Lolz especially ladies! A lady strolling through a market picks up an Item, (a red sandals) The conversation usually goes thus:- lady>"Madam how much?" Seller> "Na #3000 aunty" Lady>"No be #1500?" (Turning the red sandals around in a "disinterested" manner, while inwardly she has mentally calculated three of her gowns she will "rock" with the red sandals! Seller> "This sandle na the original, (bends sandal in a bow form, displaying its quality lolz), see am, you go use am for long time. Take am for #2800, Aunty, na #3000 dey dey sell this sandals. Lady> hmm, oya make I pay #2000, #2000 good for the Sandals :madam, #2000, good, make we leave am like that. Seller> aah aunty I know even see am buy for that price o, aunty make I just make you customer, aunty oya bring #2600, I don try. Lady> madam abeg I know get that kind money, (she has 6000k in her hand bag o.lolz), na that #2000 I hold come buy the sandals, make I put #200, (hehee) I no say you don try! Abeg abeg. Seller> frowns face,shakes head,"aunty I no buy am like that. *silence* I fit give you #2500 last price.Make e bi say the sandals no stay with me, go round market you no go see am that price buy. Lady> ahnn madam na market we dey oo , why I know go see am that price.(lady knows she likes the sandals and may not see it again but keeps bargaining skillfully.lolz) Seller> Na me dey tell you. Lady> Madam give me the sandals for #2400, up and down, na wey tin I get. Meself I don't try. Seller> Nooo, na that #2500 I fit sell am last.(pretends to be tired of the whole conversation, returns the sandals to its former position). Lady> OK o(turns to leave, reduces walking step,praying the Seller will call her back).lolz. Seller> (calls out) "oya come take am" Lady> Pays #2400. (FINALLY) Collects her new red sandals! Or it ends this way Lady leaves shoe store, after the Seller refuses "her" #2400 bargain, and unfortunately the Seller "refused" to call her back as she prayed. Lady will now do a U-turn "with her own legs"lolz and go and pay the #2500 and collect her new red sandals! Nigerian Lady goes to the Market! ............. Every time I step out of a market I just have this funny feeling about all that just happened . "Going to Market" in Nigeria isn't a child's play, Its serious business. Now the kind of market I am talking about are major markets like Balogun market in Lagos, Aswani market, still in Lagos, Onitsha main market! Anambra state, maybe Okpete market Enugu. These markets I just mentioned are for the "brave in heart" and "skillful" in market antics! Especially if you have the intention of shoping for "several" items at once. As a Nigerian woman trying to make sure you meet your needs within your means, you just have to know some market skills and try to get the best bargain for what you wish to buy.The good thing is, living in Nigeria and having Nigerian parents or Guardian especially those who let us go to market with them, we have some mommies, their "market purchasing skills " is on EXPERT LEVEL. ON A LIGHTER NOTE, lolz I know some women who will "price down" an Item and when the Seller says "oya bring money," these women will then price it down again! Chai! Lolz. If it happens to be a Yoruba woman selling, she will end up hurling insult on that buyer in her language, and tell the buyer "I no dey sell again"! Lolzz. ALARORO!!! LOL. One Secret, "my mom is a Pro in Market skills" But my dad has not that kind of patience, he doesn't even go to that kind of market! Except that year at Christmas, he took us to "Balogun" to buy "Christmas Clothes". I remember him calling his wife to come and "price" some things he personally wanted to get! Lolzz You can not learn these market Skills in Class. And as a Lady in Nigeria, the skill is useful and interesting. I guess I am an expert too! I had practically "priced"(bargained for) everything I own, I like to price, to the extent that I get angry when someone buys something for me without letting me price! While I am there Lolz. P:S. I don't like to buy things in all those places that has fixed price! (Our different lifes in Nigeria).

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