This page sets out what our prices mean, how we correct them when they’re wrong, how we make money, and what that money does and doesn’t buy. If anything here and our Pricing Methodology appear to conflict, the methodology page governs how prices are produced and this page governs how we behave.
Price accuracy
Every price on Cost.ng is a reference figure, not a quotation and not an offer to sell. It reflects what we observed in the market on the verification date shown next to it. It is not a guarantee that any seller will honour that price today.
Nigerian phone prices move with the exchange rate, import and clearing costs, and supply. A figure that was accurate when verified can be meaningfully off within weeks. That’s a property of the market, not a defect we can engineer away, which is exactly why we date every number instead of presenting prices as permanent facts.
Always confirm the current price directly with the seller before paying. Use our figures to know whether what you’re being quoted is reasonable, not as a substitute for asking.
Corrections
When we get a price wrong, we fix it and we say so. Our approach:
- Reported errors are re-verified against our normal sources before we change anything, we don’t edit a price on a single unverified report.
- Corrected prices get a fresh verification date.
- Where a correction is substantial enough to change someone’s buying decision, we note it on the page rather than silently overwriting the old figure.
- We don’t remove a correction notice to make a page look cleaner.
How our content is produced
Price pages on this site are built from a structured data set and a consistent template. That’s deliberate: comparing conditions, storage sizes and cities only works if every page presents them the same way. It also means we can keep a large catalogue current rather than letting most of it rot while we hand-write a few.
Guides, explainers and buying advice are written editorially rather than generated from the price data.
Advertising and affiliate disclosure
Cost.ng is funded by advertising. We may also earn a commission when readers buy through some links to retailers, at no extra cost to the reader.
What that does not buy:
- A higher or lower published price
- A better position in any comparison or listing
- Removal of an unfavourable price or an unflattering assessment
- Inclusion in, or exclusion from, our verification sources
Advertising is sold as advertising and is visually distinguishable from our own content. Where a commercial relationship exists with a seller we reference, we disclose it on the page it appears on, not only here.
Reviews and reader sentiment
We don’t invent testimonials, and we don’t publish reviews from people who don’t exist. Where a page shows owner sentiment about a device, it is aggregated from identifiable public sources and labelled as aggregated. Reader comments are real reader comments; we moderate for spam and abuse, not for disagreement with us.
Devices we won’t price
We do not publish prices for iCloud-locked or carrier-locked handsets, counterfeit or clone devices, or units sold as faulty. The locked-device decision is an editorial one rather than a legal one: that market is disproportionately supplied by stolen handsets, and buyers frequently can’t use the device fully after purchase. We’re not willing to be the reference price that makes those sales easier.
Not financial advice
Nothing on this site is financial advice. We publish market reference prices and explain how we arrived at them. Decisions about what to buy, when to buy, and who to buy from are yours.