I have just sold my like new Sinn 656 to someone is Germany. I have sent a watch abroad some years ago and there was no problem with insurance. I have just checked and the Post Office will not cover watches and neither will any other parcel services. Any one used a parcel service that will cover against loss and damage up to £1000?
Get a quote from Mail Boxes Etc. They will insure your package, it won't be the cheapest option but it is convenient.
https://www.mbe.co.uk/
DHL is cost of postage plus £12.00 for insurance upto £800.00 then a little extra for over £800.00. All in all not the cheapest but very quick.
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Just sent a watch to Spain using Royal Mail tracked and signed for then used Secursus for the insurance. Very easy to do👍
They'll use a third party insurer, like what is being suggested above.
OP, the usual candidates for this are IFS Inforsure or Secursus.
Here is the most recent discussion thread, which is useful to give you the differences between the above. I've used IFS for several packages, along with either Parcelforce or Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...light=secursus
Whatever you choose take into account current delays everywhere
Watches up to £4000 are permitted with DHL and insurance is 1.5% of value.
Otherwise, use Secursus.
Thanks guys for responding to my request and Lukebird for directing me to IFS and Securus. I will check DHL. I used Parcel2go and they said watches not covered by any of their listed shipping companies
Yea those T&Cs hold some little secrets don't they! Here's another one for you.
Imagine you sell something from a category that is covered by standard Royal Mail insurance, let's say on eBay, for £2,600. You ship it RMSD and increase the insurance to their maximum of £2,500. The parcel then goes missing. You submit a claim to Royal Mail, providing the proof of value etcetera as required. Which of the following outcomes do you think would occur?
(A) You get £2,600 back through the insurance.
(B) You get £2,500 back through the insurance, but you can't claim the additional £100 as it's over the insured limited.
(C) You get £0 back because your claim is invalid, due to your item being valued greater than £2,500.
If you picked (B) then I'm happy to tell you - you're wrong! The answer is (C)
I used DHL when sending a watch to Germany. Would definitely recommend. Only annoying part was I went there with everything boxed they made me open everything to check and it was then repackaged with their own packaging. You can also pay extra for insurance.
I sent a Damasko to Germany for service last week. I found it to be quick and easy to get a few quotations online (UPS were best priced at just under €50 from Ireland) but I must admit that i didn't drill into the fine print at all! Thankfully, the watch arrived in Barbing 2 days later.
And if you use ifs, don’t forget you need to double box and there is a MINIMUM
Outer box size. 12” x 10” x 2”
Photograph/video everything.
UPS won’t accept watches over £500, I think. So in the event of a claim, you’d be up the creek.
https://www.ups.com/gb/en/help-cente...ted-items.page
...well, i'll be darned!
Secursus charged 0.6 % of the stated value if the watch €1200. Seems fair enough. Watch delivered so no experience of making a claim, thankfully..
Secursus will happily cover you. I’ve used them twice this year. Both parties were happy with the cover.
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I shipped a watch part yesterday with DHL to Italy, landed this afternoon and insured for a £1000 cost me £41.95.
Securus are good way to go! Think they charge 6% of parcel value? Works out alot cheaper.
I have sent via DHL to sweden, value around £1200 and ended up costing about £80 to post in total
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