www.flegz.com is live with Business and Christian titles.

1. We are delivering to all parts of lagos state at zero naira.

2. Normal delivery will be 24hrs but if you shop before 8am you will get sameday delivery.

3. You can make VERY SECURE payments for Items with your interswitch ATM card.

4. Payments are secured by Guranty Trust Bank Plc and Interswitch Nigeria limited.

5. Easy & fatastic shopping experience [ please read the how to shop quick guide ] and you'll not need to spend more than 5 minutes everytime shopping.

Support our efforts by buying a book, and joining our facebook fanclub.
Delivery for now is restricted to lagos addresses.

Nigerians deserve the best.
But wether flegz.com is the best Nigerian shopping site is an answer you should provide.

Try out the service and tell others.

Warm regards

Prosper.

How does it work behind the scenes? Where to the items for sale come from?

Some are warehoused,
There are also suppliers signed up to supply certain categories.

How reliable are the suppliers? You know, this is Nigeria. Suppliers don't always supply on time,

Flegz.com relly not on one supplier, but an array of them for any particular category.
And alot of the work is not done by the suppliers.
The only way flegz.com can give the kind of guaranty it is giving now is because it is deep in every aspect of the operations ensuring excellence.

This sounds very much like Amazon.com! Can you introduce us to the people/company behind Flegz?

Flegz.com is a product owned by Flegz Integrated Services Limited Nigeria.
Has an array of share holders.

Poineers are Onogberie Prosper and Andy Onyung.
The idea to start such a service was born way back in 2005 when were students at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-ife.
We had to travel for hours to lagos to get computer hardware at Ikeja computer village.
The problem associated with those trips gave rise to the need to know before hand the availability of what you wanted. Then flegz.com was born. to list goods from lagos so that students would have a place to find information before setting out on a trip.

But we've since expanded into a full blown shopping service with more investors.
We've worked over the years in our little garage fine-tunning and redesigning the entire workflow and security to come up with something tailored to our Nigerian environment.

Right now our prices are at least 20% cheaper than what you'll find in regular shops in Lagos.

We'll continue to make it easier, and as much as possible make things cheaper.

Nigerians deserve the best and we hope to be one of the companies that lead the way with consistent excellence in service and product delivery.
We hope our customers' lives get's easier as a result of our service.

More about the company can be found at http://www.flegz.com/aboutus/co.php

I do a LOT of online shopping but there is NO WAY I will be caught shopping online on a nigerian site with a nigerian ATM. Say whatever u want to say I dont care. First of there is the security thing I know it is then same with global online shopping but use ATM (not visa card) on a site, sorry, no!!

Besides the Flegz shop is the emptiest online shop I have ever seen.

Your fears are very understandable Cabali,
There has been a lot of bad publicity for Nigeria in the online business.
And that's due to some bad eggs in our society.

But that is what we collectively have to change. It will not be easy.

But gradually we'll all do our little bit to errode this notion and build safer systems online and offline.
Hopefully, someday, ours will be the envy of the world and we'll look back and say we came out of it.

But we have to get our hands dirty and get the work done. One site at a time.
We'll find the loopholes and plug them.
We'll build our name again.

Flegz.com is a product of Flegz Integrated Services Limited; a company duely registered in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

You can look it up with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

You can call up Guaranty Trust Bank e-business unit, and you can call Interswitch Nigeria limited.

I urge you to try us and when you see the excellence in service, Tell others about us.

As for the emptyness you expressed, don't worry we just launched and if you look properly you'll see that Items are continually beign loaded by the minute so please feel free to look us up again. hopefully we'll have the titles or Items that will Interest you.

Hope to see you online.

@prosper,
I've just been to your site. I'm quite impressed I must say. Only problem is that you seem to
have only books for sale. Your DVD section is empty and so is your computer section.
You need to grow your stock more than what you have currently if indeed you want to be the
best nigerian shopping site.
Also, your limiting yourself to delivery within lagos alone doesn't help you at all in achieving
your goals except you only want to be 'the best lagos shopping site'.

@George_D,
Thanks George.

- We have soo much books that It's going to take us some time to load it all. We currently have staff dedicated to those.
- We will add other categories within the week.
- We are trying to perfect the running of lagos first before moving to other cities within the country.

We don't just want to launch and say we can deliver to every city. We want to build solid service within the first city, then replicate it in the rest of the country.
We do want to be the best in Nigeria and not by our word, but by the words of our customers.

Swift is good. but we intend to be the best and most trust worthy.

We'll get to warri before you know it I promise you and if I had your contacts i'd send you a personal notic when we do.
But if you sign up on flegz.com you'll get notifications as we will be periodically sending out to our customers.

Hi Prosper,

Thanks for the information. I'll check-out the website in just a minute. One question though-- Does Flegz stock foreign literary books and novels?
For example if I wanted a novel authored by John Grisham, Stephen King or Jackie Collins, would I get these at Flegz?

Thanks!!!

Hey Prosper,

You may wanna include a tab for 'Home' that will send people back to your homepage from other subpages. I had trouble trying to navigate back to home. Finally, I tried clicking on the Flegz logo an that worked. However, some impatient browsers will just close the window entirely.

Another question:
Does your company accept book consignments from Western countries, i.e. US, UK, Canada, France, etc?

@Joan
We do not have those for certain right now,
But we are in negotiations with a major supplier for that category.
It's a major category for us so with time they will be listed.
We just need to negotiate the prices to the barest minimum.
We'll have those and more, you can be sure of that.


We have updated the logo to reflect home that should temporarily help with the issue you just raised till be sorth out a permanent one.(This will be effective shortly )

Thanks alot Joan.

Cheers.

One of the best Nigerian Sites i have seen in a while that works

Prosper,

Thanks for the prompt feedback. Please mail me more info concerning your company and availability to carry foreign book consignments at joan.peck@bernardbooks.com
I will talk to my company sales person and should be able to get Flegz a deal on our up-coming adventure/thriller title.

Thanks!

cabali:

I do a LOT of online shopping but there is NO WAY I will be caught shopping online on a nigerian site with a nigerian ATM. Say whatever u want to say I dont care. First of there is the security thing I know it is then same with global online shopping but use ATM (not visa card) on a site, sorry, no!!

Besides the Flegz shop is the emptiest online shop I have ever seen.

Typical Nigerian Bad Belle. Big Nigerian companies (Like Aero Contractors) have deployed Interswitch on their websites for bill collection and it is proving to be very effective, so please keep your phony concerns to yourself.


@prosper
This is a good initiative and it should be applauded. A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. However, the greatest hurdle before you guys will be to win the trust of the Nigerian public.

I wish you guys well.

THANKS A LOT FOR FLAIZ.

PLEASE LETS PUT HANDS INCLUDING SEUN AND BRING OR MAKE A SITE DAT WILL BE LIKE EBAY.COM AND LET NIGERIANS AND AFRICA ENJOY THE POWER OF SHOPPING.

AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE GURU'S REPLY ON THIS

The idea is good.
To shop with you. i'd have to use an account i have very little money in.
In case some smart guys decide to hijack my ATM info.
Good work though, stock more stuff,

@bluediva
No problem. Just make sure you tell others of the service. When you get your shipment delivered.
We have security to the extent that the from the time you log on, you transaction with the site is protected.
So the issue of any fraudulent person stealing your card data is minimised.

We send out alert regularly to buyers on how best to be safe.
Hopefully we'll get our buyer smart to the ways of possible fraudsters.

Soon the trust issue will be eased up.

We are stocking, we are.

not a bad concept if it actually works.

@Prosper.
Will surely try you out.
I order most of my books from amazon.
When you guys are fully stocked, i'll switch to you.
It certainly will be cheaper, not cost price as amazon is really cheap but delivery price.

prosper:

@George_D,
Thanks George.

- We have soo much books that It's going to take us some time to load it all. We currently have staff dedicated to those.
- We will add other categories within the week.
- We are trying to perfect the running of lagos first before moving to other cities within the country.

We don't just want to launch and say we can deliver to every city. We want to build solid service within the first city, then replicate it in the rest of the country.
We do want to be the best in Nigeria and not by our word, but by the words of our customers.

Swift is good. but we intend to be the best and most trust worthy.

We'll get to warri before you know it I promise you and if I had your contacts i'd send you a personal notic when we do.
But if you sign up on flegz.com you'll get notifications as we will be periodically sending out to our customers.

@prosper,
You could still do long distance tansactions by hooking up with reliable transporters who could help
deliver your goods to your customers outside lagos.

hope you wont spam, sending me unsolicited mail is one thing I wont encourage cos I might likely sign-on using my official email addy,

THIS IS THE MESSAGE I GOT WHEN I CLICKED ON YOUR USER AGREEMENT LINK,

URL - http://www.flegz.com/flegz/useragreement.php
Not Found
The requested URL /flegz/useragreement.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.5 Server at www.flegz.com Port 80

@BLUEDIVA
u scared to that extent

@exago,
looks like prosper is still away enjoying easter.

Someone please enlighten me.

Residents of Nigeria order their international books from Amazon? Which location?

Amazon.com? Or Amazon.com/uk? Or which?

Thanks!!

exago:

THIS IS THE MESSAGE I GOT WHEN I CLICKED ON YOUR USER AGREEMENT LINK,

URL - http://www.flegz.com/flegz/useragreement.php
Not Found
The requested URL /flegz/useragreement.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.5 Server at www.flegz.com Port 80

Whatever the error was has been fixed.
The user agreement page loads just fine now.

Thanks every one for your feedbacks. We really appreciate them.
Keep em coming.

@prosper,
welcome back. thought you were still away for easter. you haven't said
anything about my suggestions on long distance delivery.

@George_D
We are looking into options.
We prefer using registered professionals with the proper insurance policies to ensure our customer get nothing but the best.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Like I said earlier, we have not gone out to other cities because we want to solve the teething problems first in one city.

These things have been operational in the US but our environment pose different and tougher challenges.

Please bear with us.