postage prices grrrr.!

withabix

You charged £7.50 for P&P and it cost £7.40...You were expecting a cost of £5 for postage. £2.50 buys a lot of packaging materials and time.

I'm assuming you sell a few items and probably your running average P&P charge is a bit more than the costs incurred, so where's the problem???

angelcake

He already said it needed an awful lot of packaging! I would pay £2.50 extra to know it was securely packed!! being it a lovely collectable!

£2.50 is not that much!

kevinyork

melg1973 wrote:

I weigh my items at work on brand new electronic franking machine scales to get an indication of the cost then when I go to the local post office I have noticed they always weigh about 15g more on their very old looking set of scales (only have one set). Luckily for me its never put it into another bracket but perhaps they have it set in their favour........

Noticed the same too with one of my Post Offices. The scales have a spirit level in them and it is always off centre so they cannot be accurate. However, have now found a lovely PO where they let me write the weight on my parcels before I go and they take it at face value. I put the accurate weight on them (unless it creaps just over a weight limit by a few grammes in which case my pen accidentally 'recalculates' downwards a little). Never had an issue and Im sure Royal Mails' system for checking weights centrally must have a few grammes allowance.

nightswimmer

aris wrote:

If you're going to do alot of ebaying, get one of these:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8421100.htm

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Just wanted to second that recomendation. I've always been suspicious of digital scales but this one has been spot on all the time. :T

pianeet

postielatic wrote:

deliver it yourself next time!!
see how much that costs you!:beer:

funnily enough we have started doing this for local deliveries at work,its cheaper to send someone out in a van than send something registered post,and we can guarantee the recipient gets it..

windswept

angelcake wrote:

He already said it needed an awful lot of packaging! I would pay £2.50 extra to know it was securely packed!! being it a lovely collectable!

£2.50 is not that much!

I am a she!!!!
my buyer was thrilled and left fabulous feedback, I was happy with the service, it arrived within 24 hours, all I was really moaning about was the huge gap of 1kg, why can't it be an extra 25p every 250g? that would be much more reasonable, without ebay, the royal mail would collapse!

dawnydee73

Buy your postage online

soolin

dawnydee73 wrote:

Buy your postage online

I'm not sure what this achieves though as if it is found to have insufficient postage at the other end the buyer will have to pay the difference *and* a handling fee which is usually an additional £1.
Also, more worryingly you have no proof of postage should the item go astray.

Like the OP I find the huge gap between 1-2kg a mystery, whislt I can accept they probably don't want too many increments, maybe having a 1.5 band might encourage more people to use the system.

dawnydee73

soolin wrote:

I'm not sure what this achieves though as if it is found to have insufficient postage at the other end the buyer will have to pay the difference *and* a handling fee which is usually an additional £1.
Also, more worryingly you have no proof of postage should the item go astray.

Some of my parcels have been on the borderline and I have paid the lower amount, not had any problems. I take all my parcels to the postoffice and get my COP stamped, I never post any ebay stuff without proof of postage

Hintza

soolin wrote:

Like the OP I find the huge gap between 1-2kg a mystery, whislt I can accept they probably don't want too many increments, maybe having a 1.5 band might encourage more people to use the system.

This is due to when parcelforce was sold off, they had to make a decision on where the separated the businesses and it was around this level. 1-2kg seem more of a grey area andI must agree a pricing nightmare. Go above 2kg and you are straight into a courier service.

As for original OP adjust your scales as necessary to take into account any error or try a different PO, I am lucky myPO still uses the od fashioned dial type scales.