Another ebay question

custardy

catmiaow wrote: »

I paid £8.40 for delivery, the stamps worked out at £8.60, all new.
Never heard of the cellotape thing, been selling for years and they have always accepted them. I will ask them why £20 that seems ridiculous. Honestly I might as well have kept it as if I have to pay them £20 then i have basically made £10!

Then the charge would be £9.40

catmiaow

custardy wrote: »

Then the charge would be £9.40

£9.40 plus a charge or just £9.40? Just wondering where the £20 came in

RFW

custardy wrote: »

You cant remove a service when charging
charging for 2nd instead of 1st is the norm
however if it has RD or SD
then the fee for that is applicable plus £1

Doesn't all recorded and special have to go through the Post Office? I was just wondering how it is then possible for the buyer to be responsible for underpaying, shouldn't RM take that up with the Post Office?

catmiaow

RFW wrote: »

Doesn't all recorded and special have to go through the Post Office? I was just wondering how it is then possible for the buyer to be responsible for underpaying, shouldn't RM take that up with the Post Office?

Exactly what I thought.

soolin

RFW wrote: »

Doesn't all recorded and special have to go through the Post Office? I was just wondering how it is then possible for the buyer to be responsible for underpaying, shouldn't RM take that up with the Post Office?

OP though used her own stamps to cover the full cost- I assume all the PO did was to put tracking details into system. My post is never checked, they always accept what I have put on as postage and for special I drop off at a crown PO as I had problems with my mail centre before.

I would be interested to know what the tracking shows- might it show that item was collected from xxx mail centre rather than 'delivered' ?

adouglasmhor

custardy wrote: »

You cant remove a service when charging
charging for 2nd instead of 1st is the norm
however if it has RD or SD
then the fee for that is applicable plus £1

RD Custardy? Do RM have a service called RD anymore?

catmiaow

soolin wrote: »

OP though used her own stamps to cover the full cost- I assume all the PO did was to put tracking details into system. My post is never checked, they always accept what I have put on as postage and for special I drop off at a crown PO as I had problems with my mail centre before.

I would be interested to know what the tracking shows- might it show that item was collected from xxx mail centre rather than 'delivered' ?

Says delivered from their local deivery office? Not sure if it should say collected or whether its just delivered regardless

soolin

catmiaow wrote: »

Says delivered from their local deivery office? Not sure if it should say collected or whether its just delivered regardless

Hmm, I may well be completely out of date but I had one once that showed as collected from. Xxx. It just seems odd to me that RM would deliver something that requires a charge, as the Post person can't collect that at the door.

I suppose the buyer might have paid any charge online of course....but I would certainly be asking for the receipt here before I paid out anything to buyer.

sequence

The OP is telling the truth about those none sticky special edition stamps. I got some from the post office, they were absolutely useless. Would not stick at all (I taped over the corners!).

theonlywayisup

catmiaow wrote: »

£9.40 plus a charge or just £9.40? Just wondering where the £20 came in

The fee is £1 and this is put on top of the amount that 'should' have been paid, so in your case £8.40. So the total the buyer will be charged is £9.40. But they should get some proof of payment to show you they have had to pay.