Royal mail signed for

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I'm on holiday at the moment and bought a 5800x. Royal mail have 'delivered' it and signed for it themselves with signature 'xp1' which is the standard covid one that they say...

Im not back until the weekend so can't check if I've got it. They say signed for is the same as tracked during covid which I find pretty poor. I asked them what happens if it's not there when I'm back and they say contact the sender!

Does anyone know if it's just standard for them to leave signed for packages at the front door?
 
I hope it's with a neighbour. Don't have their number unfortunately. This is the last time I'm going on holiday without a ring doorbell.

Agree hate this signed for crap. I got it from eBay so it's pretty unlikely of getting my money back / unfair on the seller (well.. he should have sent it by special tbf)..
 
Yes I realised my mistake quite quickly, was going to ask the seller but they sent it within an hour of buying. I thought they would send it by special or a courier..

Spoken to eBay and they said it would be covered by eBay money back guarantee. However I take the reps words with a pinch of salt..

He said they would contact royal mail in this case. Knowing RM they would say it was delivered to X coordinates. Grr.
 
Cadder said:
It sounds as though it may be with a neighbour.
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Agree. I hope!

The coordinates seem to point to a neighbour so fingers crossed and I remember signing for royal mail stuff for neighbours recently. However I checked my indoor camera and can't see a slip through the letterbox.. only concern.
 
Hyburnate said:
We have a good relationship with all of the couriers that serve our place but even couriers these days will leave things, we had one from a new delivery driver who left our parcel recently with contents in excess of £70 outside on a public footpath... (not near our front door by any stretch)
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Yep. Amazon especially.

They left a 2080ti at my door before. Lol
 
Cadder said:
OP do you not have contact details for neighbours to drop them a message?
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Unfortunately not. Only moved in about 6 months ago, on good terms with them but im not very prepared it seems!!

I got the 5800x for a bargain as well.. £280. Hopefully all is good, if not.. guess it's not the end of the world. Heck, my covid tests to go on holiday have cost double that.
 
Wow. Got home today. Looking everywhere for the package but find a signed envelope on the floor, rip it open and its a government covid 19 letter. Think nothing of it and keep looking. Call ebay and say I haven't received it... then I check the tracking number of the envelope and its the same as the processor. This scammer has sent me a covid 19 letter instead of a 5800x.

Raised a case on ebay.. then raised one with PayPal, but then ebay automatically closed the case as I forgot the seller is now technically ebay as you don't pay the seller direct anymore. PayPal looking into it but will take a week at least.
 
arknor said:
a week? .....surely it's a 5 second job to check the tracking and see the package is a few grams? a graphics card is over 1.5kg boxed no?

you'd think AI would automate the basics by now
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I know. Its a processor but he only paid £2 postage for signed for delivery, and it was also addressed to my neighbour instead of me (my name though)
 
Bit annoying as I was on the phone to ebay saying I haven't received anything then said I had received something when I realised. Hope that doesn't screw me over!
 
Cadder said:
This is completely bizarre OP. Sorry to hear this. Hope you get sorted straight away.

I was following another thread where many forum members were stating ebay is buyer-focused and the seller mostly loses in a dispute. Hopefully you get your money back at least.

Is the covid letter definitely from the seller?
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Yeah definitely. It was a sealed envelope and the tracking number on the envelope agrees to the one he added on eBay. It is bizarre.. but I think the scam is for the buyer to think nothing of the letter and throw it away, not realising and then the seller to come back and say it was delivered etc and then you have no proof of what was received.
 
Cadder said:
Wow, that's quite the scam. What kind of reviews does the seller get? Maybe some similar feedback has been left that would strengthen your argument against ebay.
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All positive feedback, even some recent. I can't leave feedback until at least 7 days. He sold 3 of these 5800x on the same listing.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Compo for signed for is £50. Regular post its £20.

We advise people at post office that postman will put parcel by door, knock on door wait for parcel to be taken in then sign the pad themselves. If no answer they have to take it back to thr sepot.

Now this has been sent as a standard 2nd signed for letter. Assuming the post office clerk checked the size of the letter you can prove the CPU wasnt inside as the letter thickness can only be 5mm. Nowhere near thick enough for an AMD chip with pins. If it was retail boxed then it should be a parcel size.

Hope you get sorted but hopefully you have his details from ebay so can start some sort of court proceedings.
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Yup the picture was the retail box so should be parcel size.

eBay have changed their business model. You no longer pay the seller directly so the PayPal dispute I have raised is with eBay.. not the seller. There are business details of the seller on eBay but not sure how accurate they are.
 
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Yep he did it to loads of people. *******.
 
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