Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Saturday October 29, 2011 at 16:29:7:

If you are living in Nigeria and want to be able to shop online easily from retail sites like Amazon.com, it is quite possible to do so and even have your items finally shipped to you in Nigeria.

What you will need
Before you get started with shopping with Amazon.com, here are what you need:
- A valid credit card
- An internet connection
- An Amazon.com account

Credit card brands like Visa and Mastercard are now in Nigeria and they come with a Nigerian billing addresss so you could use it to shop online easily from Amazon.com. Just make sure it is the dollar credit card because I don't really know if the naira card would work. You can easily get a credit card from a bank with about $150 balance.

An internet connection is also useful and you would need it to get connected to the website. You would need a private and reliable internet connection for online shopping.

Having an Amazon.com account is also necessary and you can get it for free once you enter the website. All you need to sign up for a free Amazon.com account is your email address and personal details. Just make sure you use your Nigerian address or any other residential address you have access to.

Once you have all of the above, you should be able to shop online from Amazon but what remains is shipping restrictions

Shipping restrictions
Although you could shop from Amazon.com in Nigeria, not all goods can be shipped to Nigeria and the ones that I know they can ship directly to here are:
- Books, DVDs and some T-shirts

How to ship other goods from Amazon to Nigeria where they don't ship
You can make use of mail forwarding services like MyUS and all it involves is paying them a fee for receiving goods you bought from Amazon.com and you could even take advantage of free shipping offers the company does. You only pay a one time or periodic fee and then shipping charges to Nigeria with such mail forwarding services.

So if you are going to re-ship items that Amazon doesn't ship directly to Nigeria, what you simply need to do is to first ship them to your US address using your forwarding US address, they hold it for you and then re-ship them to Nigeria when you choose to.

Comments:
Re: Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria Posted by Abdulmalik on Monday January 30, 2012 at 1:18:34:

Pls reply 2 my email box. How wil i get myus.com to in turn ship d item i bought to nigeria

Re: Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria Posted by Felix Okoli on Saturday May 12, 2012 at 21:42:40:

@Abdulmalik, to get your items finallly shipped to you in Nigeria, you login to your myus account if you already have one and request for shipping to your address in Nigeria. They normally send it by dhl.

Re: Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria Posted by Uche on Monday September 10, 2012 at 8:37:5:

Can I buy laptops from amazon and get it here in Nigeria?

Re: Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria Posted by Felix Okoli on Monday September 10, 2012 at 8:38:27:

Of course you can. You can buy anything buyable from Amazon and get it here in Nigeria. Just use a US mail forwarding address.

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Re: Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria Posted by Sami Yusuf on Thursday September 11, 2014 at 24:41:21:

Pls help with the following on how to go about it. Moreover, I leave in a town in kwara state how will I do about it for it to be delivered to me. thanks. Pls or send how to go about everything to my email address. Youngmarouf@yahoo.com
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Re: Shop from Amazon.com from Nigeria Posted by Felix Okoli on Thursday September 11, 2014 at 24:41:21:

I'm not sure what you mean by those details. You mean the amazon details or card details.