How I bought a Car video camera on Aliexpress from my mobile phone

Posted by Felix Okoli on Wednesday November 18, 2015 at 13:5:12:

As a Nigerian who loves shopping on Aliexpress because of their low prices and low international shipping costs, one of the ways I now buy things from Aliexpress is with my mobile phone and their online shopping app which I downloaded from Google's Play Store.

My Aliexpress shopping app lets me buy things from Aliexpress, a Hong Kong based shopping website much in the same way I do my online shopping on my desktop. One advantage of shopping on my mobile phone is that it makes it easy for me to shop without having to sit down or use a lot of internet data. Yes, mobile shopping uses less data than desktop shopping.

I've been having the need to get a car dashboard camera for personal use so that I could take videos, use it for spying as well as have some form of evidence in case I get into a car accident. I don't know how many Nigerian car drives who actually have a video camera in their car and the one I wanted to buy was the XINDELL 2.5-inch HD Car LED dash camera which was sold for about $19(N4200).

I had already downloaded and installed Aliexpress android app on my phone and all I did was open the app and browsed for the dashboard video camera that I wanted and added it to my cart. When I was through, I chose the cart and clicked on buy. I then make payment using my card details and the order was accepted.

My bank account was later debited with the equivalent exchange rate of my order in Naira which was at about N220 per dollar. The next thing was to wait for the seller to ship my package to me and as of today, I've been able to track it to a NIPOST office and I;m waiting to receive a notification from them to come for a pickup myself.

Shopping with a mobile app like Aliexpress makes it easy for me to buy things from China.

Why did I buy a car dashboard video camera? Well, for 2 main reasons which are to capture events and to serve as evidence against bad drivers when I'm parked or driving.