Lost Gift Card - Royal Mail

qazitory

kemo_2002 wrote: »

posted to see if there was anyway they could trace the giftcard - if it was delined refund through royal mail then maybe mothercare would re-issue a lost card. Thought it was best to post as if it was 'mine' than go into this story, gets a bit comfusing.

People are less likely to help you if you don't tell them the truth!

If the post story is true, have you tried contacting the sender?

custardy

why would you lose £120 on a gift card?
I could easily buy £280 worth of goods from Mothercare and recoup over £160

kemo_2002

im really sorry, i am being honest, this is 100% what happened, the other post was just to really see if there was a way of re-issuing lost gift cards, im really sorry if i have comfused anyone. Ive contacted gumtree to see where i stand also, i am assumint this is all i can do, and ive pretty mcuh lost the money now

custardy

kemo_2002 wrote: »

im really sorry, i am being honest, this is 100% what happened, the other post was just to really see if there was a way of re-issuing lost gift cards, im really sorry if i have comfused anyone. Ive contacted gumtree to see where i stand also, i am assumint this is all i can do, and ive pretty mcuh lost the money now

Gumtree will do nothing

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kemo_2002

that will teach me, i guess its pretty much a waist of time me claiming from post office then

custardy

It costs nothing to try

somethingcorporate

Would it not be up to the sender to claim? and then refund you.

arcon5

kemo_2002 wrote: »

that will teach me, i guess its pretty much a waist of time me claiming from post office then

Do you have verified contact information for the seller?
Are they a business seller or was it a private sale?

Although it's worth a try making a cliam with RM, I think you should still be focusing your efforts towards the seller. With enough pressure they will contact mothercare to see about having it re-issued. If not, you have no contract with RM (the seller does), and I think you should be looking at options against the seller.

In this instance, I also think PayPal would have been useless anyway, since the seller has proof of delivery (it's just nothing was in it) I wouldn't be surprised if they found in the sellers favourl

lateandlive

Sorry, why would ANYONE sell a £280 giftcard to someone for £160!?

merlot123

lateandlive wrote: »

Sorry, why would ANYONE sell a £280 giftcard to someone for £160!?

Not unusual. How do you know something hadn't happened to the baby the gift card was originally bought for?

Gift cards are not refundable, so I would do sell it if I no longer needed it. Besides Mothercare are overly expensive and I personally wouldn't shop there anyway.

I do think the OP has been slightly silly though, parting with £160 cash for an item sold via Gumtree....no protection offered.