Amazon USA says it's eligible for shipping to Nigeria

Posted by Felix Okoli on Saturday April 11, 2015 at 19:40:55:

As online shopping business grows in Nigeria, the online shopping giant in the USA called Amazon is gradually spreading it's wings to our country and I've noticed recently that a growing number of items listed on their website are now Eligible for shipping to Nigeria.

You can buy things like electronics, books, video games, clothes, shoes, mobile phones and so on from Amazon and they are more likely to deliver straight to Nigeria if the item is eligible for international shipping.

In the past, Amazon completely avoided delivering items directly to Nigeria and some smart Nigerians found out another way to shop on US websites like that by making use of a US shipping company. Nowadays, Amazon seems to be looking for more international buyers and Nigeria, being the biggest market in Africa has caught their attention.

I guess Amazon might have decided to go this ways as it gradually faces competition with shopping giants like Alibaba from China or with a view to capture more growing markets such as Nigeria. Amazon USA doesn't deliver items to many African countries and based on what I know, it was only to South Africa they were delivering to. It seems Nigeria now has a growing number of young millionaires and online shoppers who are willing to pay with their internationally accepted debit/credit cards.

The banking industry in Nigeria has grown and this attracted card brands such as Visa and Mastercard as well as popular online payment platform called Paypal. Now, Amazon is gradually rearing it's head over the country and is prepared to send items directly to Nigerians at their home or office address if only they wold place an order.

I have to say that one of the reasons why I love Amazon is because they don't block Nigerian IP addresses and also accept our locally issued Visa and Mastercard. Yes, you can now buy many things on Amazon and pay in Naira and expect your items to be delivered within 7 days.

To buy things on Amazon as an international buyer, it's normally advisable to go to this page that gives a listing of items that are eligible for international shipping and from there buy anything you want. Don't go for the other items that don't say they are eligible for international shipping but for the ones that say they are eligible. It's normally printed in a gray text below the listed items.

You can buy electronics, fashion items, shoes, books, kitchen supplies, creams and so on from Amazon from Nigeria and they'll deliver to you straight using an international courier service.

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