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PlainName:

--- Quote ---What about the account you are being asked to send the money?
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It's the postoffice website: https://www.royalmail.com/receiving-mail/pay-a-fee

I am not worried about that - the notification and receiving account are genuine postoffice things. What I am asking about is whether the sender not paying the full rate (so that I have to pay some) is deliberate or a mistake.
tooki:
While outstanding fees are a real thing, it could very well be a phishing attempt. I just got another one today, supposedly from the Swiss Post, but that opened with “Good day, my love, [tooki]!” 🤣

Yeah no, Switzerland isn’t that cuddly a place! :P
PlainName:
We get on well with our posty (he often recovers our garbage bin from the curb as he comes up the path), but not that well :)
thm_w:

--- Quote from: PlainName on February 27, 2023, 06:41:34 pm ---Since one would normally cough for the postage before finding out what it is, it would be difficult to claim this back from the vendor - if it were Amazon it might be possible if you're in their good books, but for Ebay it's hard enough to get to a real person to complain, and since it's marked as delivered the usual return/refund options aren't applicable.

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If it were Amazon or Ebay I wouldn't even give it a second thought.
Ebay: pay the postage (assuming payment goes to royal mail), contact the seller saying you had to pay postage, they will refund you. The chance of them not refunding you and taking that negative rating hit is very very low. If they do, open a dispute.
PlainName:
I thought Ebay would be harder to fix since I'd have to prove the postage was short, and Royal Mail doesn't normally provide receipts or similar that would make it easy. We will no doubt find out soon :)
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