Underhand Tactics

[TonyBridger]

Because I believe you should own an item before actually listing it to be sold. Not to mention as has been pointed out, i'm not covered by PayPal's Seller Protection for sending to a different address than the one on PayPal.

Dropshippers don't own items they offer for sell and even big firms like Argos dropship some of the items in their catalogues

As most, if not all, your items are offered with second class, unsigned for, post you will not be covered by PayPal, so doesn't matter what address you send to.

[sidthelamp]

Dropshippers don't own items they offer for sell and even big firms like Argos dropship some of the items in their catalogues

As most, if not all, your items are offered with second class, unsigned for, post you will not be covered by PayPal, so doesn't matter what address you send to.

drop shippers have an agreement with there suppliers do they not, there is no agreement with the ops buyer

[HaleysComics]

Items do not have to be signed for unless the value is $250.00 or more, it doesn't matter if it is posted 2nd class or 1st class as long as you add tracking to the item & upload the tracking number.

[lofty100e]

Please tell me, how do you get a tracking number for ordinary 1st / 2nd class post? As far as I know the only thing you can obtain from the Royal Mail / Post Office is a certificate of posting - which does not actually prove anything much.

[MPS16]

Please tell me, how do you get a tracking number for ordinary 1st / 2nd class post?......

And Royal Mail Signed For Service is not a Tracking Service.

[sidthelamp]

royal mail offer a tracked but not signed for post, its not available in the post office according to my post master, ive had small packets delivered this way, it seems its only available to business users ,

[lofty100e]

And Royal Mail Signed For Service is not a Tracking Service.

You are correct the Signed For option is a tracking service when operated properly. Unfortunately quite often it is not and is therefore a complete rip-off.

From what my contacts at the Royal Mail tell me the letter is scanned when you pass it over the counter; the bit you do not see is that it goes in with the normal mail where it stays. The idea is that the item gets plucked out by the person doing "the walk" at the destination sorting office and a signature is obtained. Unfortunately this does not always happen, and sometimes the walk person signs for it themselves or leaves it on a step in the open where it could be nicked.

The only way of ensuring delivery is to pay the extortionate Special Delivery charges where each person that handles the item has to sign for it.

Sid: thanks for that info.

[sidthelamp]

You are correct the Signed For option is a tracking service when operated properly. Unfortunately quite often it is not and is therefore a complete rip-off.

From what my contacts at the Royal Mail tell me the letter is scanned when you pass it over the counter; the bit you do not see is that it goes in with the normal mail where it stays. The idea is that the item gets plucked out by the person doing "the walk" at the destination sorting office and a signature is obtained. Unfortunately this does not always happen, and sometimes the walk person signs for it themselves or leaves it on a step in the open where it could be nicked.

The only way of ensuring delivery is to pay the extortionate Special Delivery charges where each person that handles the item has to sign for it.

Sid: thanks for that info.

your welcome.

ive had many a battle on the phone with the PO about signed for not getting a sig, it was a lottery to say the least when i was last using that service