Help Made mistake with overseas postage

Linda1971

Used parcelmonkey. Total cost is £17.51 so only £2.51 down. Thanks for all advice. Without MSE I would have been stuck!! :j

WLM21

building_with_lego wrote: »

Afraid so- you've just got to suck it up and send it.


(We've all done it, so please don't think you're the first!)

Yep ! I did it too

theonlywayisup

And a good point to note, is that had you not 'mucked up' on the postage, you may have charged the next German buyer £30 and so on. But at least now you are only a few pounds down and have the knowledge of cheaper postage methods.

richto

£14.50+VAT from ParcelsPlease.co.uk

lexuslass

Glad you've got the postage cheaper and haven't lost out too much!!

I always state no international posting on my options but state on my listings that I am willing to post overseas if I am contacted for postage costs before the end of auction... never had a problem with it and can always weigh the item and give a more or less accurate postage cost ....I have to go in and 'untick' each country afterwards so that they can bid.. but at least both they and I know where we stand on postage costs.

Crowqueen

lexuslass wrote: »

Glad you've got the postage cheaper and haven't lost out too much!!

I always state no international posting on my options but state on my listings that I am willing to post overseas if I am contacted for postage costs before the end of auction... never had a problem with it and can always weigh the item and give a more or less accurate postage cost ....I have to go in and 'untick' each country afterwards so that they can bid.. but at least both they and I know where we stand on postage costs.

It might work well up to now but you are storing up problems if the buyer doesn't contact - and probably doing yourself out of bids as the item reaches its end and the buyer has no time to contact you.

It only takes one buyer not to make contact and then you have a post on the forum asking whether you can refuse to sell, whether you can charge extra, what you do when they pay the wrong charge etc. I know you probably know what you are doing but there are always the problem buyers who tend to go along with this mode of selling.

It's much less hassle - and more lucrative - particularly if you are selling in a busy category where twenty pages in you are still on items ending within the hour.

How often do you get radically different costs to e.g. different European countries, particularly on smaller items that can go by post?

I can understand it works for you but postage costs - via RM at least - do not vary that much from country to country so you could save your buyers hassle and get yourself more bids by doing the five minutes' work on small items yourself before you are asked. If I see an item like this I will move on, because there is always someone else who has arranged things to my convenience rather than theirs. It's just making a lot of extra work for both of you.