kwadwon

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by kwadwon 11y ago
No offense taking. You bring up very valid points and concerns and they are all things that we've considered and are working on. We have answers to some, and there are still a lot of questions we don't have clear cut answers to bu
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by kwadwon 11y ago
Very valid point from a couriers perspective. We will consider and safe and systematic way to do this so we don't run into cases where a courier claims an import duties were collected when that wasn't the case. Definitely apprecia
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by kwadwon 11y ago
Yes, for the most part the travelers are people who go back and forth between Nigeria and US, and Ghana and US often and already practice this behavior, but now have an option to make extra money from it and potentially make it safer than t
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by kwadwon 11y ago
This is very true. Because we do purchase the items ourselves we do see the vendors who are shipping the items and so we can screen for this and mitigate the risk. We are definitely going to invest in a machine to X-Ray packages to further
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by kwadwon 11y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. This is definitely something we have in the pipeline. One of the constraints we are dealing with is that often people will turn of their phones when they travel internationally. We do get a local (international) n
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by kwadwon 11y ago
The process of buying items in the US and carrying it back home to Ghana or Nigeria is one that is already pretty common. It is true that occasionally people are detained however. Any lost goods would most likely need to be replaced or mon
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by kwadwon 11y ago
We do ask the shopper to confirm receipt of the item but we also do follow up with the traveler. In future we may have the traveler take a photo documenting delivery of the item so that a shopper who has received an item doesn't deny t
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by kwadwon 11y ago
If the item being delivered is over a certain value we'd have the shoppers (in Ghana or Nigeria) cover duties and taxes. We do hope to iterate and make the process more seamless but right now we package and seal the items in Shypmate p
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by kwadwon 11y ago
My name is Kwadwo, one of the cofounders of Shypmate. Shypmate is a way for people in Nigeria and Ghana to buy items and goods from the US and get it delivered through a traveler heading to one of those countries. We pay the travelers, the