Pre-paid on-line shopping
comes to Nigeria
Monday, March 8, 2004
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Nigerians can now buy goods from the United Kingdom and Europe
from the comfort of their rooms or office. A pre-paid electronic
system called GlobalDosh (GD) specially designed for purchase
on any website has made its debut in Nigeria.
GlobalDosh pre-paid payment system is a real time on-line
transaction system for countries with low to zero debit and
credit penetration and for minor and underage shopping, globally.
The system works by presenting a way to convert physical cash
into cyberspace where it can be used for purchasing products
and services on-line. Money is converted by the use of pre-paid
voucher which, when uploaded onto GlobalDosh virtual account,
can be used to purchase on any website on the Internet.
To use the system, Kunle Adeniyi, Director of Operations of
the company in Nigeria, said a user is registered on the GlobalDosh
website by filling an on-line form and an account number would
be generated and e-mailed to the user immediately on submission.
He explained that a registered member could, with a valid
account number top-up his account by purchasing a valid voucher.
“The voucher’s blanked-off pin-number panel is
then scratched off to present a pin-number that could then
be entered on the GlobalDosh’s members’ site for
upload,””he added.
According to him, GlobalDosh users can either shop directly
with GD-accredited e-merchants that sell directly to the public,
or via GlobaDosh-accredited e-merchants that provide avenues
for shopping on 3rd party websites that are not currently
accredited by GlobalDosh but are popular with e-shoppers.
In the light of the unreliability of the local delivery system,
Adeniyi said GlobalDosh has made arrangements with all its
accredited e-merchants to deliver all the Nigeria-bound goods
to a point in London, for forwarding by a courier to a point
in Lagos. He assured that the total delivery period is seven
working days.
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