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@pegr-834437 wrote:

Yeah I agree with you its a risk, customer services are probably a bit (a lot) better with Royal Mail. I'm not 100% sure but with Royal Mail do you not need proof of how much it was worth so the chances of a private seller being able to give a receipt for an old book (looking at the sellers items) I'd imagine is pretty hard as who keeps receipts for a book they just wanted to read/collect and not to sell on kind of thing. Both have risks, lets just hope the seller has no issues and its delivered and the buyer enjoys it.

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To show how much the item was worth you would take a screenshot of the order details page on eBay - that is proof of what the item was valued at when it was shipped out.

When I had to claim off Royal Mail a while ago (as in a few years ago) they took the order details page for the item as the value of it.

Fort an expensive item I'd rather have the protection of extra insurance, compared to just hoping for the best and then having inadequate cover if something did go wrong (or no cover at all if it arrives damaged and the buyer just opens INAD or Defective instead of Damaged).