how is best to send £75 worth of ebay items to thailand?

roxy86_2

hi all, someone has won loads of littlt thomas diecast trains off me on ebay. the total they have won amounts to £75. how am i best sendning these items. is it best i get them to pay for international signed for postage which gives me compensation of £500 or should i send the items in 2 seperate packages if i get them to pay in 2 transactions? that way i will be covered up to £46 for ech package which will be plenty and will cost them less in the postage.

not quite sure what to do here, any help is really appreciated

soolin

A courier is your best bet. No RM service will guarantee you tracking

roxy86_2

ok brill, thanks soolin. ill look into a courier

roxy86_2

sorry me again, do you know where is a good courier to use to send to thailand. i just looked at one and it sadi £45

forgotmyname

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/cheap-parcel-delivery

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/cheap-parcel-delivery

roxy86_2

hello again everyone, thanks for al the help. ok the cheapest i can seem to get me parcel delivered for is going to be about £27 with TNT express and then its going to cost £5 on top to cover the items upto £100.

First of all does anyone know if TNT get Proof of delivery incase of a paypal claim etc?

Also I know Soolin has advised to used a courier azs the RM doesnt garauntee tracking but if I was to get the person buying these from me to pay in 2 transactions so therefore I could split the trains into 2 packages. The cost of the trains that would be in each package would be about £38 and therefore even though the RM wont track delivery if the items got lost int he post etc surely i could claim from the RM to get back my £38.

Is that aloud to be done, i mean this person has basically won about 20 diecast trains from me. Each train was a seperate auction they werent in a bundle or anything all were sold as individual trains. so therefore i have about 20 different item numbers.

The reason im asking this is I want to keep the postage costs down for the buyer as much as poss and to send both packages via RM airmail is going to be about £8.70 each and so about £18 in total.

Obviously though I only want to go down that route if I can be sure that if the items did get lost in the post that i would be able to claim my money back form RM. (Ive never had to claim from the RM so I do not know what this entails).

Thanks again everyone for any help in advance

soolin

Yes you could split and send 2 parcels, my only concern is that you might struggle with an RM claim if neither arrived, but that is probably just me being over cautious.

roxy86_2

oh thanks soolin. ah isee what you mean they may see ive posted 2 parcels to the same person and question it. im a very cautious person aswell and you have got me thinking now.

dont know whether its best to send via a courier and have peace of mind of via RM which is cheaper for my buyer but may cause me a prob if i do have to claim.

Invalidation

You wont get signed for postage or courier in Thailand no matter what they say.
Theres probably only a 60% chance of it not being stolen once it gets to their Postal service anyway.
(my brother in law works for the Thai postal service in Bangkok)

roxy86_2

oh so you reckon if if i use tnt express to send it i wont get a proof of delivery?

roxy86_2

so if you reckon there is quite a high chance if it not getting to the recipient then i need to make sure whichever service i use is going to pay me if the items go missing.