KHNGDXAND3R:


Hey man they have cleared my phone today finally

Mine too oh, I just checked now

ceaser:


Have you really gotten items bought successfully on banggood without any hassles? Is this negative issue a one of occurrence with your experience on banggood?

Funny thing is that I ordered a case for the phone alongside the phone on the same day, but I imagine they were from different sellers. I got the case exactly 3 weeks after I ordered it, Sept. 13th to be exact and that one came through Aramex/Oya now logistics.

Before then, the reason I chose to use Banggood was because someone else recommended it, saying that they ordered phones and got them delivered to their door in about 3 weeks and AliExpress made me sceptical because I'd been scarred by NIPOST in the past. I recently just discovered by hopping on this thread that things have gotten a little better with AliExpress with the collaboration with companies like Speedaf.

KHNGDXAND3R:


Wow that's just crazy i have disturbed banggood like mad they told me to chill that i will receive it. And the most funny aspect is our tracking status matched each other me too 31st of august i could find it on speedaf and september 11th it said arrived customs clearance in progress.

Did you order a phone too?

ceaser:


This is almost three weeks ago, Haba!

I think you should not let speedaf rest. They should avail you a plausible explanation for this and give you assurances that your item will arrive.

Although, it being a mobile phone, coupled with the fact that there are many thieves on the prowl at every stage of logistics in Nigeria, Hmmm.

That's just the problem. I'm thinking of going to their office on Monday but I'm guessing that if the package is really still at customs, they probably won't have any idea what's going on with it. My last hope now would probably be to wait another 3 weeks from now to ask for a refund if this whole thing isn't resolved by then.

ceaser:


Since speedaf handles your item, I don't expect it to be so delayed. Speedaf isn't on strike as I was at their office on Thursday to send an item, but NIPOST is. Except of course if your tracking shows "handled by Speedaf-Nipost" as part of the status in which case the Nipost part is responsible for the delay.

There's no indication on my tracking that NIPOST is involved, it just appears that the package is being held by customs for about 3 weeks. I contacted Speedaf and they told me the item isn't at their office and they have no idea what's going on with it.

ritsy02:
Please guys how do I bypass this 100 dollar limit. I want to order for a product that is more than 100 dollars

You can use Barter dollar card. You download the Barter app from the App store and register and set up a dollar card and fund it.

ceaser:


To be honest, I don't know what to say of these recent issues of "withheld by customs" status that last for weeks even with supposedly small and inconsequential parcels/items. One of my item that is just a smart plug was on "withheld by customs" status for over one week before it was eventually released and terminated in "failed delivery" about 5 days ago. I'm yet to be called by the post office probably because of the strike.

But if I should ask one question. What is the means of shipping of the phone, expedited shipping (DHL, UPS, etc) or the regular shipping (AESS, Singapore, Speedaf etc)?

If it is the former, from my experience you'll likely be contacted by the shipping company to be informed of any pending duty from customs and upon payment of the amount, the shipping of the item will be completed and get delivered to you. For the latter group however, I think it is NIPOST that will inform you at the point of arrival/termination/collection of the item. That is the item will have arrived at your local NIPOST office and possibly even tagged "delivery failure" (meaning it has arrived) and when you go for collection, you will be informed of the duty on the item. Until you pay the amount, usually at the NIPOST office which makes it vulnerable to fraud of overinflation of the price since they won't show you the invoice from customs, the item will not be released.

But as per the tracking information being stuck at that point for 3 weeks, I want to assume that it is due to the strike by NIPOST (I also got to know of the strike on this thread). It is possible that customs has finished processing your item, but the next update of tracking status, which would be done by NIPOST upon continuation of transit after customs, has not been done because of the strike. This assumption may be further strengthened by the fact that yours isn't an isolated case as you mentioned earlier, but it also affects some other people too.

That being said, the fact that the status showed that your item, which is a phone, was processed by customs is a sure bet that you will pay duty on it. The amount is what you can't tell yet.

Thank you for your response, my package falls under the regular shipping category since I put my tracking number on Speedaf's website and it brought out the tracking information. I suppose we all need to wait for whenever NIPOST ends their strike to know the next update.

Although concerning the stamp duty, I heard from this thread that the fee is supposed to be a percentage of the cost of the item, I wonder if there's a way to find out the exact percentage, though I don't think it would help much if they plan to overinflate the price since they hold custody of the package and won't release it until their price is paid.
Since Speedaf is supposed to do door delivery, I was hoping this whole customs duty thing and the involvement of NIPOST would be avoided altogether, but it seems not to be the case.

Lixusheng:

Priority direct mail can either be Singapore post, swisspost, postnl, aramex, Hongkong post... Am asking the particular one because if the phone was shipped from Hong Kong Banggood usually use Swisspost etc

I don't know exactly how I would be able to tell, they don't exactly indicate it anywhere, except for the phone case...I knew it was Aramex because of the tracking information. For the phone, I wouldn't have known that Speedaf was handling it if I didn't see someone else post the same problem here.

As for the tracking numbers, the Aramex one is 11 digits, all numbers, the Speedaf one is 14 digits, all numbers.

Lixusheng:


Which shipping method was used?
Last time i used them it was Swisspost.. That was 2017/2018 though

The shipping method I used was Priority Direct Mail. The funny thing is that I ordered a phone case with the exact same shipping method on the same day I ordered the phone but the case arrived 3 weeks after I ordered and it came through Aramex/Oya Now logistics.

KHNGDXAND3R:


Did you also ordered from banggood ? Because mine is from banggood

Yeah I also ordered a phone from Banggood, Poco F3, I don't know if customs have refused to clear it for some reason.

ceaser:

Custom duties are charged based on the price of the item (that is the price declared on the label of the envelope. So it varies. I think items more than 64k naira automatically attracts duty.

However, there are items, including phones, that have escaped custom's scrutiny and the buyer got it without paying a dime as custom duties. But that is in very rare cases.

Hello, I have a package that has been showing customs clearing in progress for close to 3 weeks, and it's a phone, and it seems other users here have a similar customs issue, do you think it has anything to do with payment of custom duties? If so, how exactly are we supposed to be contacted to pay the fees?

KHNGDXAND3R:
Hi peeps since 11th of september my order got to nigeria from bangood and till date making it 16 days it has been stuck on customs clearance in progress. Through speedaf . Is this normal i already contacted speedaf and their answers is not even sticking in my head at all. Is this normal? Is there anybody who is experiencing or has experienced something similar?

I have the EXACT same issue.

I admonish we read these articles and I hope it clears all doubts. Please endeavour to read each scripture as well. God bless.

Perseverance of the Saints - is it biblical?

Excerpt:

One of the misconceptions about the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is that it will lead to “carnal Christians” who believe that since they are eternally secure they can live whatever licentious lifestyle they wish and still be saved. But that is a misunderstanding of the doctrine and what the Bible teaches. A person who believes he can live any way he wants because he has professed Christ is not demonstrating true saving faith (1 John 2:3-4). Our eternal security rests on the biblical teaching that those whom God justifies, He will also glorify (Romans 8:29-30). Those who are saved will indeed be conformed to the image of Christ through the process of sanctification (1 Corinthians 6:11). When a person is saved, the Holy Spirit breaks the bondage of sin and gives the believer a new heart and a desire to seek holiness. Therefore a true Christian will desire to be obedient to God and will be convicted by the Holy Spirit when he sins. True Christians will never “live any way they want” because such behavior is impossible for someone who has been given a new nature (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Can a Christian lose salvation?

Excerpt:

Two common objections to the belief that a Christian cannot lose salvation concern these experiential issues: 1) What about Christians who live in a sinful, unrepentant lifestyle? 2) What about Christians who reject the faith and deny Christ? The problem with these objections is the assumption that everyone who calls himself a “Christian” has actually been born again. The Bible declares that a true Christian will not live a state of continual, unrepentant sin (1 John 3:6). The Bible also says that anyone who departs the faith is demonstrating that he was never truly a Christian (1 John 2:19). He may have been religious, he may have put on a good show, but he was never born again by the power of God. “By their fruit you will recognize them” (Matthew 7:16). The redeemed of God belong “to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God” (Romans 7:4).

I pray the Holy Spirit gives you understanding in Jesus name.

alBHAGDADI:
Did the verse say he will go to hell or has lost his salvation?

Revelation 21:8
8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Also yes, faith without works is dead. This means that your faith is not faith unless there are works to back it up. Believe in Jesus and you will be saved. Yes, but that believe needs to be shown in how you live from that time on ward.

It's just like saying you love someone with your mouth and then you do things that hurt them. Anyone else that sees you will say you don't love that person, why? Because of your works. I rest my case.

1 Timothy 6:20
20. Timothy, keep safe what has been entrusted to your care. Avoid the profane talk and foolish arguments of what some people wrongly call "Knowledge."
(TEV/GNB)

I have not come to argue but to spread light. Peace be unto you all.

alBHAGDADI:


Doubt is different from losing faith. John the Baptist had doubts that's why he sent his disciples to ask Jesus if he is truly the Messiah, same John who baptized Jesus, saw the Holy Spirit descend on him and a voice proclaiming him to be the son of God.

No man is holy, not one.

Romans 3:10-12
10 as it is written:

“None is righteous, no, not one;
11     no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one.”

Please don't just cut sections from the Bible and give it your own interpretation, you skipped the previous verse:

Romans 3:9-12
9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

v.9 was trying to prove something, it said "we have proved that both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin" he now proceeded to bring proof of that statement in v.10, as it is written, there is non righteous, no, not one. Sure, before Christ, no one was righteous, but now, we are righteous by our faith or belief in Christ. Thank you.

alBHAGDADI:


Don't you kNow that there are consequences for those sins? If you rape, you go to jail. Fornication might come with STD. Is that what you want for yourself?

It is your spirit that is saved, your flesh remains the same. Your flesh pushes you to sin which you will pay times fall for, but your spirit iOS saved eternally.

Errmmm....

Romans 6:13
13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

I believe your member is your flesh.

And also...

1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.


Your body is not yours, God gave you that body for a purpose and when you received Jesus, His Spirit now dwells in your body as a temple, so glorify God in your body AND in your spirit. Not in your spirit alone. Please take note.

alBHAGDADI:


You are a confuses person. So if is until you get to heaven before you know you are saved when many verses say we already have eternal life just for believing in Jesus?

1 John 5:13
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Mind you, altar calls of today are fake, that's why people immediately return to sin and even worse. It is fake because the salvation they preach is the type you can lose, which is the counterfeit of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.

As for unclean, Jesus Christ has taken upon himself our sins and has transfered his righteousness unto us.

1 Corinthians 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

The true gospel is so sweet and a good news because it states that even if you do no works of righteous but you believe in Jesus, you still will make heaven because your faith in God has made you righteous.

Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

The same 1 John 5 you quoted, if you go down:

1 John 5:18
18. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
(KJV)

To enlighten you, here's a different version:

1 John 5:18
18. We know that those who have been made God's children do not continue to sin. The Son of God keeps them safe. The Evil One cannot hurt them. (ERV)

You can see clearly it says when you're now God's child you shouldn't continue in sin.



2 Corinthians 5:21
21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Jesus Christ was pure of sin up to His death. On the cross, basically He took on all the sin of the world and carried it to the grave with Him to bury it. Jesus couldn't ascend to Heaven until he had buried that sin and then he arose all new to live in God, same way it's through Christ that we become righteous because we go through the process when we accept Him, we die and resurrect new.



Finally:

Romans 6:15-18
15. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17. But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
(KJV)

For better understanding:

Romans 6:15-18
15. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17. But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
(TEV/GNB)

I hope this is clear. Even now that you're under grace, if you decide to sin, that means you're giving up yourself as a servant to sin which eventually leads to death (opposite of eternal life...obviously), but if you're obedient and don't sin any longer, you're now a servant to righteousness or doing right things or living right.

Sin is toxic, no part of the Bible makes sin okay, abstain from sin and God bless you.

alBHAGDADI:


Take a look at all the verses below which speak and believing as the only criteria for eternal life. Show me which of them says you also have to stay away from sin.


And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. (Matthew 19:29)

"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields--and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)

"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life." (Luke 18:29-30)

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." (John 3:36)

"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. (John 5:24)

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. (John 6:39)

For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:40)

For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (John 17:2-3)

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'" When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed. (Acts 13:47-48)

The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5:20-21)

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. (2 Corinthians 5:1)

The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:

But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. (1 Timothy 1:16)

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. (1 Timothy 6:12)

a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, (Titus 1:2)

he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:5-7)

See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us--even eternal life. (1 John 2:24-25)

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:11-13)

Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. (Jude 1:21)

Romans 8:1
1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

There is no condemnation if you don't walk after the flesh, which is equivalent to not sinning.
This in essence means that there is condemnation if you walk after the flesh, that is, if you sin, and you can't tell me you can be condemned and have eternal life at the same time. That is not possible. Thank you.

alBHAGDADI:


Lies, fornication, wickedness etc. We all commit those sins. But it is only one sin that sends men to hell fire. That son is rejecting Jesus Christ. If you accept Jesus, you will be saved from the damnation that those sins bring. But rejecting Jesus means those sins will condemn you.

Lol! I learnt that even the devil knows how to quote Bible to use it to confuse people using different means, we can see in Jesus' temptation.
I disagree with basically most of what you've said up to this point, but what you said particularly in this comment caught my attention and I had to comment!

Revelations 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

This is very clear and plain contradiction to what you said. As you can see there, all those sins, including the "unbelieving" that is those who don't believe in the Gospel of Christ and the others listed there will have their part in hell fire.

You can still be rescued from this deadly fallacy you hold dear to and continue to spread. Please read Romans 6 very carefully, it is very possible to live a life above sin. How you may ask?

Romans 6:1-2
1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2. God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

It says in the second verse that we are dead to sin, how?

Romans 6:3
3. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Basically, when you believed on Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your Lord and personal saviour, you didn't just do that, you were also baptized into His death, this means you died and were buried with Him. Your sinful life was buried in His death.

Romans 6:4
4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

This is saying that since our sinful life was buried with Him and we all know that Jesus was raised from the dead, this means we rise with Him as well, but this time we're leaving our sinful life behind and walking with a new life, a clean life, free and devoid of sin...old things have passed away, behold all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Romans 6:5-7
5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Since our old man or old life was crucified with Him, we shouldn't serve sin anymore, because basically that version of you is dead and you're now a new sin-free person that should continue to live that way.

Romans 6:8-14
8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.


What does this mean? it means now that you died already when you received Christ and Christ died to sin once and now lives to God, we too we should believe ourselves dead to sin and alive to God through Jesus. This means that we should believe that we can live above sin because we are basically dead to it and now we are living in Christ, so Christ has empowered us to live above sin.

v.12 also says don't let sin reign in your mortal body and v.13 says we shouldn't yield any parts of our bodies for sinful purposes because, v.14 Sin doesn't have control over you anymore, you are now under God's grace. Take note! It doesn't say "you can now sin because you are now under God's grace"
Please let this misconception stop. God bless you.

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Nils:

No I didn't register, how do I register?

You can't register anymore, it's closed. You just have to wait for the stable release prolly rolling out this December.

Nils:

I've done that.... Still nothing

Are you registered on their Android 9 pie beta program? The update is still in beta, the official update isn't yet out.

Ayy the update looks cool, but what about the navigation buttons? Is it possible to change them to the one button navigation that Google uses in their Pixel phones?

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