Shipping used watch

[LordGrover]

I'm selling a watch and would like advice on how best to send it.

Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm is quite reasonable at £10.65, but only covered up to £2,500.
Is this an acceptable/usual risk or should I be looking at other options? Selling price/value is £7,500.

[kennydies]

I would not recommend it. I just used that service to send my sold Tag and Royal mail left it on the doorstep and signed for it themselves!!!

[M11rph]

Malca-Amit are the usual default for moving high value items.

I'd probably just have a day out and hand deliver it within the UK, or get one of my family's trusted youngsters (yes they can exist!) to drive for petrol money and a suitable inducement.

[kennydies]

The company that send my Breitling used Fedex so they must have a good experience with them

[gregs656]

Does that include if you pay extra for more coverage?

I’ve had a few watches more than £2.5k either sent or received with Special Delivery, and I am pretty sure I paid to cover their value.

[LordGrover]

gregs656 said:

Does that include if you pay extra for more coverage?

I’ve had a few watches more than £2.5k either sent or received with Special Delivery, and I am pretty sure I paid to cover their value.

Yep. From the website:
Your Special Delivery item has a money back guarantee if it doesn't arrive by the guaranteed delivery time. All Special Delivery items are automatically covered with £500 compensation against loss or damage. For a small amount you can increase the level of compensation to £1,000 or £2,500 and as an added extra you can purchase consequential loss up to £10,000.

But when I went to post office near work they said they could only insure up to £2,500 - suggested maybe a Crown PO may be able to offer additional.
'Local' PO to home is a van a couple of hours a week, so I'll have to make a trip to town or something to enquire.

[gregs656]

Ah ok, can be done then, think that’s what I’d do. You could use interparcel or another parcel comparison website to see how much fedex or UPS would be. Special Delivery is a robust system though, and would be my preference.

[RLE]

Couple of things to consider:

Consequential Loss will not extend to your watch.

Don’t be tempted to assume the risk for the difference in value vs maximum insurance coverage. As an example, if your £5000.00 watch is lost, don’t expect RM to cover the maximum £2500.00. As an underinsured item it will be considered to have no cover at all and any insurance claim will be rejected, resulting in full financial loss.

Recommend a third party insurer like Securus. Easy to create an online account and you simply pay a fee to insure your item. You can still send via Royal Mail etc. You must however follow the instructions carefully but it’s all fairly straight forward.

[LordGrover]

RLE said:

Recommend a third party insurer like Securus. Easy to create an online account and you simply pay a fee to insure your item. You can still send via Royal Mail etc. You must however follow the instructions carefully but it’s all fairly straight forward.

Thank you - that looks like a viable option.

For anyone referring to this later, it's Secursus, not securus.

https://www.secursus.com/en-gb/pricing/