It will get better

My blender got spoilt a few days ago, so I’ve been looking for a better option on the Internet, and the kind of blender I’m looking for is not the one that will get spoilt quickly. My former blend was only used for two years, and it was quite expensive when I got it. My goal this time around is to buy a good blender that will help me for a very long time. When I came across a Vitamix blender on YouTube, I thought the blender would be cheaper than my former blender because it doesn’t look expensive, but that was a lie.

The price on Konga shocked me. It was around two million, which is very expensive, and 2 million naira is around $1200, and using $1200 to buy a blender is outrageous. It’s crazily expensive, and nowhere in any part of the world using $1200 to buy a blender is a smart move. I saw this price on Konga, and I was curious. I went to check the price on Amazon because I thought Nigerians normally overprice something, and the price was $800 on Amazon, which reminds me of why things are expensive in the country.

Daylight theft

I used to blame Nigerian sellers for overpricing their product, but recently I got to know about how expensive it is to clear your goods in Nigerian Depot, and most times it is always close to a hundred percent of the amount of the goods. So if you buy something hundred thousand dollars, to clear the goods in Nigeria, you have to pay a hundred thousand dollars, but this depends on the goods, but most times it starts from 50% to 100 %, which is crazy for a country that doesn’t produce anything.

The most annoying part about this thing is that all the money being generated from tariffs in Nigeria is used for nothing. Nigerian government are generating a lot of money, but they are not using all this money for anything. This money is going into their pocket. We still have electricity issues, insecurity, and so on, and all this problem have not been solved. We are generating a lot of money from different sectors in the country, and we still struggle with so many basic needs.

So crazy

The truth is, I can not use $800, which is the actual price of this blender on Amazon, to buy a blender, but paying 50-100% tariffs on the goods imported into your country is crazy.  In the same country where unemployment is at an all-time high, the country's currency is doing very, very badly. The question is, where do they expect us to get the money to buy all these expensive things in the country, even our own produce is also expensive.

Thanks for your time