How can I check that the Simple Delivery label is not incorrectly priced?

[runninginlane4]

Yesterday was the first time that eBay have forced SD on to me. My listing didn't include any letter size or weight and the buyer appears to have been charged £2.28 for what is a large letter over 100g (and under 250g) using the Tracked 48 Royal Mail service.

Is this correct? The RM website quotes £2.70 but could this be business rates? And how can I check other costs are correct? 

Finally, is the name 'Simple Delivery' meant to be ironic? 😉

[ruby*ryan]

£2.28 is the price less VAT, so the full price with Vat would e around £2.70 - I think it's a couple of pence more if you have selected only RM.

[runninginlane4]

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@ruby*ryan wrote:

£2.28 is the price less VAT, so the full price with Vat would e around £2.70 - I think it's a couple of pence more if you have selected only RM.

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Thank you. Looking at the Royal Mail website, £2.70 would appear to be correct.

On a negative, this increases the buyer's postage cost by 35% for my 125g comics that used to be sent 2nd class large letter at a price of £2.00

[lucy_farmer]

'is this correct? The RM website quotes £2.70 but could this be business rates? And how can I check other costs are correct? '

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I wouldn't worry about it.

If you've been crushed into S.D. and *haven't* ticked the 'seller pays postage' box, postage costs -right or wrong- have nothing to do with you.

If the buyer wants the item, they'll pay the postage to get it, and they'll have to pay whatever it is ebay tell them to.

And if the parcel has the wrong weight/payment whatever on it when you take it to the post office, the post office *apparently* have to accept it. The ebay supplied postage label will have the words 'Marketplace Seller' on it and that 'makes it all fine'...... ebay and Royal Mail will settle up between themselves later

(some post office managers have been a bit late to the party on this, admittedly odd, development, and don't appear to know the rules yet. But we are assured they *should* all know about it  and everything will be OK....make of that what you will..)

'Finally, is the name 'Simple Delivery' meant to be ironic?'

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Nope.  It's just one of the best pieces of marketing, spin P.R. bullsh**- speak I've ever seen...🙄