Earlier this week I was trying to order my xmas pressie from a dealer on ebay (UK) they would only deliver to my paypal address, hmm. As I use my wifes paypal, simple change the UK address to our Spanish address. No, can't do that, UK only addresses allowed!
OK set up my own paypal account with our Spanish address. OK so far except the free delivery from the UK company now had £75 courier charge for Europe, reading the ebay advert further it also outlines that europe deliveries would be sent from a depot in Germany!
So leaving that avenue alone, I go to ebay (Spain) type in my search and lo and behold there is exactly the same item but coming from Germany with free delivery! Job's a gud un! Well no it wasn't, because hit the pay button and Paypal pops up and wants to confirm my visa card details. They initiated this by charging my card £1. This would carry a 4 digit number which I then had to complete on the paypal page. Of course this number would only appear on my next statement or if I was lucky via online banking
So fortunately I rang Saga this morning and the transaction was there, they gave me the 4 digit number over the phone. Then it was back to paypal to input that number on my account. Then they would pay the £1 back to me and allow me to make purchases.
So finally after 5 days of hassle my pressie is on its way, the merchant in Germany gave me a delivery date of 12th-19th November. Fingers crossed it is not delivered by DHL, they do not look after goods in Spain. Karen had a package from them last week from Amazon it was crushed and torn, fortunately it contained earbuds for her ipad so no damage. But a neighbour had a microwave delivered that was so battered it looked as though an elephant had stood on the box, seriously! He got a full refund once he sent photos of the damage to it. Mine contains a rather fragile and expensive glass tube so lets hope.
