Postage For Private Sale - Want To Send More Than One Box/Parcel

[diamondsparkles2014]

I'm taking advantage of eBay's free listing to sell some lego. It weighs about 25kg's and would be very bulky in one box. I've packed it in five small boxes. I would like to sell the lego in a "free postage" advert. eBay kindly offer a schedule of options and prices for postage. However, I'm unable to find how to pay for five smaller boxes instead of one large box. I know this puts me to additional postage costs and I'm more than happy to accept that. I can't find an option to select more than one postage payment for the same sale.

Thank you in advance for any pointers or response.

Kind regards

[tommystrezures]

Are you looking to sell as five separate lots or as one large lot but packed in to 5 boxes?

One of your best bets would be to ignore the ebay postage, as what you are trying to do is far too complicated for ebay.

If you are looking to send as one large lot - eg 5 boxes of 5Kg, then one of your best bets would be to goto the post office and use parcelforce. Here you can send as a consignment and it works out cheaper. The assistant will put in the total weight for the items to the address,  but each parcel gets a different code/label as part of the consignment when processed at the counter. Cost should be around £20.

[diamondsparkles2014]

Thank you ever so much, that's very kind of you & I appreciate the time you have taken to help.

I'll give it a whirl. The lego was my daughters and the proceeds of the sale will be hers, so if you don't mind, may I say thank you from her too please 🙂

Kind regards

[tommystrezures]

You are very welcome and good luck with the sale.

You could in advance pop in you your post office and ask them how much to give you a more accurate idea if it's not too busy they should be able to help you. Just remember to say you want a price on parcelforce for a 25kg consignment in 5 boxes. They should then be able to work it out for you.

[myriad*seller]

If selling the lego as one lot, but sending as five parcels you may end up with problems if one item gets lost in the post

If you sell items as one job lot you should really send them in one box for your safety and protection

If one box goes missing you will have to pay (via ONE return label) for ALL of it to be returned and refund in full including outward postage. 

eBay will not let you send 5 return labels, if you don't send one single label for 25kg the buyer may be permitted to keep the items and get a full refund 

Maybe break it up into 5kg job lots and sell it that way, if anyone wants to buy it all then they do it via 5 transactions. 

Much safer for you the seller

[thesmokingrunner]

It might be quicker and easier to have a look at Royal Mail prices online (royalmail.com) - a Medium Parcel (maximum dimensions 61cm x 46cm x 46cm) weighing up to 10kg sent by Tracked 48 would cost £6.65, and a 15kg parcel (same dimenions) £10.55, so you could send 25kg in two parcels for £17.20. If you do send two (or more) parcels, mark them "1 off 2", "2 off 2" (or "1 off 3" and so on) so the recipient knows to expect more than one delivery.

Parcelforce have their own website (send.parcelforce.com) and a quick look gave a cost of £17.95 incl VAT for a 25kg parcel with the same dimensions given above.

Hope this helps.

[tommystrezures]

But the beauty of sending as consignment is you get 5 different tracking labels with parcelforce. As long as the correct tracking is uploaded against each box when adding the tracking details, it shouldn't affect as when you drop the tracking in it always states add another so the same order in theory has different nos as should be the case in any consignment shipment with any carrier.

I know where you are coming from but we personally have never had an issue dealing with it in the way we suggested.

we have suggested this way in part a 25kgbox with some carriers sits in the realms of oversize and it may be that the op may not be able to lift a box of that size and nature, or have one large enough?

[the-nutwood-collection]

Also, 25kg needs a double wall, good quality, well taped box preferably shrink wrapped to stop it bursting.  I've had 30kg boxes delivered that weren't shrink wrapped, and they've invariably burst in parts.  Fortunately, wool is very tolerant of rough treatment and it's packed in kilo bales, so none escaped.  Wouldn't like to risk Lego.