We choose
We watch what people ask for here and pick what is worth sourcing. You can put something on that list yourself.
ABOUT
We buy as a crowd so you can buy one.
8PM Drop is a Nigerian shop with one idea behind it: the reason a thing costs less abroad is usually not the thing — it is the quantity. So we gather the quantity.
WHY IT EXISTS
The problem we started with.
A factory quotes one price for a hundred pieces and a very different price for one piece. Almost nobody in Nigeria needs a hundred of anything, so almost everybody pays the one-piece price — through an importer, then a wholesaler, then a shop, each adding their cut.
Nothing about that is dishonest. It is simply what happens when you buy alone.
So we stopped buying alone. When a few hundred people all want the same kettle on the same night, that is a hundred-piece order — it just happens to be split between a hundred people. We place it as one order, get the one-order price, and pass it back down.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO
Four jobs, and that is all.
We are not a marketplace where anybody can list anything, and we do not hold a warehouse of stock waiting for you.
We find the maker
We go to the people who actually make it, agree a price at each quantity, and check they can supply what we are promising.
We open the Drop
It runs for up to 24 hours, or until the number available is gone. The price falls as more people buy.
We buy, check and deliver
We place the order, it is inspected before it leaves, and it reaches you in 7–12 days.
WHAT WE WILL NOT DO
The promises we are not making.
Most of what makes online shopping feel unsafe is a promise nobody intended to keep. These are the ones we are refusing up front.
The clock is the real clock
The countdown is the actual deadline and the number left is the actual number left. Neither is a sales device.
The picture is the goods
Product photos come from the factory supplying that batch. We do not lift another seller's pictures.
No made-up buyers
Every review here is written by somebody who can prove what they are talking about — a delivered order, a confirmed account, money that reached them. When there is nothing honest to show, the space stays empty.
You get the difference
If the price falls after you have paid, the difference comes back to you without you asking for it.
YOUR PART IN IT
The next Drop is chosen from what people ask for.
Every request goes on a public list that anyone can vote on, and that list is where we look first when deciding what to source next. It costs nothing and it does not need an account.
If you want to earn from what you find, list it as a scout: a product you list that we source and sell pays you a fee on every unit, in that Drop and every Drop it runs in again. Ask for a product → · Become a scout →
WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH
The company behind the shop.
KIVU Leaf Limited (RC 9572141), trading as 8PM Drop. Lagos, Nigeria.
Reach a person: hello@8pmdrop.com
Payments are handled by Paystack. We never see or store your card details. What we hold about you →
See it working.
The current Drop is the shortest explanation there is.