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Postage cost?!

trouttrout

Anyone ever sent a laptop by post before?!

Any idea how much it cost roughly?

Cheers

Reply 1

trouttrout

OP

Cheers

Reply 2

Choad

1

25 quid at a guess? it's not ridiculous but not cheap either. make sure you cover it in bubble wrap!

Reply 3

Cortez

17

I sent one with Royal Mail special delivery a while back. It's about £20 and it'll be there next day (edit: well, not with the strikes of course ...!).

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=19100231&mediaId=22700554

Reply 4

trouttrout

OP

Cheers peeps. Sold one on ebay and have only charged em £17 for the postage!!!! Grrrrrr!!!!!!!

Could get it there by parcel force for £15 so royal mail should be cheaper than that shouldn't it!!!!!

Reply 5

MissHero

1

I wouldn't trust Royal Mail with that. And frankly, if you charged them £17 postage, you should use that money to send it, not try to find a cheap option. I hate people who use postage costs as a way of making a bit of extra money.

Reply 6

silverbolt

19

Cortez

I sent one with Royal Mail special delivery a while back. It's about £20 and it'll be there next day (edit: well, not with the strikes of course ...!).

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=19100231&mediaId=22700554

RARGH BRAGH ARGH damn effing royal smegging bloody mail.

Im waiting on a parcel lol :mad:

Reply 7

Cortez

17

MissHero

I wouldn't trust Royal Mail with that. And frankly, if you charged them £17 postage, you should use that money to send it, not try to find a cheap option. I hate people who use postage costs as a way of making a bit of extra money.

It doesn't really earn them any extra though ... just means they pay less eBay fees. If something has high postage it generally sells for less than it would have done with low postage as people (at least I do) take the whole cost into account instead of the auction price + whatever the postage is .... if that makes sense.

Reply 8

kookabura

13

Also, I tend to increase the postage cost a bit to take account of packaging otherwise I end up getting bubblewrap/envelopes etc and losing that cost. So charging £17 for p&p some can/should be for packaging not just postage. I would prefer to pay a little bit more and get something arrive in one piece and well packaged, rather than broken!

Reply 9

tbm

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trouttrout

Cheers peeps. Sold one on ebay and have only charged em £17 for the postage!!!! Grrrrrr!!!!!!!

Could get it there by parcel force for £15 so royal mail should be cheaper than that shouldn't it!!!!!

Just make sure you use a service which will insure the item in case it gets lost- my sister owns her own business and shes had so many items going missing with Post Office/Parcelforce- mostly customers returning items who only bothered to send stuff first class when its worth a lot of money :rolleyes:

Reply 10

SoundDevastation

13

Cortez

It doesn't really earn them any extra though ... just means they pay less eBay fees. If something has high postage it generally sells for less than it would have done with low postage as people (at least I do) take the whole cost into account instead of the auction price + whatever the postage is .... if that makes sense.

postage is often used to cover all overheads. We include 'postage' in our shop prices, but that amount has to pay for postage, packaging and the paypal cut... can be up to £10 for expensive international vinyl orders, but thats just the way it is.

Reply 11

Cortez

17

SoundDevastation

postage is often used to cover all overheads. We include 'postage' in our shop prices, but that amount has to pay for postage, packaging and the paypal cut... can be up to £10 for expensive international vinyl orders, but thats just the way it is.

Yeah I know that. That's not the point I was trying to make. I'm just saying that higher "postage" costs on eBay does not make the seller more money. If I stick £30 down as the postage cost it will more than likely sell for a lot less than the same item by another seller with postage @ £10.

E.g.

Item 1 from seller 1 sells for £100 + £10 P&P = £110

Same item from seller 2 with £30 P&P will probably sell for more like £80 (total still being £80 + £30 = £110 so higher postage cost doesn't equal more money for the seller).

Reply 12

Tom

15

trouttrout

Could get it there by parcel force for £15 so royal mail should be cheaper than that shouldn't it!!!!!

Parcelforce IS Royal Mail. It's what they call their parcel/courier delivery service (as opposed to the ordinary one with postmen, for letters)

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