Maks25
Active member
I did go into partnership once with someone, it didn't work out but I will go into partnership with them again.
The guy was a credible person who agreed to partner with me supplying items for resale on his website. The first two purchases went ok, and then one of his customers requested an item on a special order. We got the item, sent to Lagos within the agreed timescale, and then nahco decided to go on a 2-week strike, and hold all goods coming into the country in their warehouses. nahco is the nigerian aviation handling company which holds goods during the customs checking/documentation procedure. Obviously, the customer was not happy, I had paid 100% out of my pocket for the item - having received only 50% payment, the goods were held up by the government for no justifiable reason (along with good of millions other individuals and businesses) so my partner decided to refund the customer from his pocket and keep the goods.
He was better off in the end, but these were cirumstances out of our control and I made a net loss on the deal. The reason I will partner with him again is that none of the problems we encountered were of his making, and there was no point in me blaming anyone else but nahco for my losses - the partner in question is a honest, good communicator, but I will partner under different terms.
The guy was a credible person who agreed to partner with me supplying items for resale on his website. The first two purchases went ok, and then one of his customers requested an item on a special order. We got the item, sent to Lagos within the agreed timescale, and then nahco decided to go on a 2-week strike, and hold all goods coming into the country in their warehouses. nahco is the nigerian aviation handling company which holds goods during the customs checking/documentation procedure. Obviously, the customer was not happy, I had paid 100% out of my pocket for the item - having received only 50% payment, the goods were held up by the government for no justifiable reason (along with good of millions other individuals and businesses) so my partner decided to refund the customer from his pocket and keep the goods.
He was better off in the end, but these were cirumstances out of our control and I made a net loss on the deal. The reason I will partner with him again is that none of the problems we encountered were of his making, and there was no point in me blaming anyone else but nahco for my losses - the partner in question is a honest, good communicator, but I will partner under different terms.