Hi Nykmedia, I understand your point about possibly sending the BACS details by post, but would either you or the seller be prepared to pay the £5+ to ensure safe delivery?

Recorded post is a farce as the items are just dumped in the ordinary mail, until it reaches the destination sorting office. When if you are lucky it will be retrieved and a signature obtained. The only secure means of delivery via Royal Mail is Special Delivery, where from what my sources tell me each person that handles the item has to sign for it, and the SD items are kept behind locked doors.

How would you go about verifying an address? For the suspect buyer we shared I checked out the address on the Royal Mail address finder; it came up as genuine. The only other way I can think of is to check the electoral register,but this isn't fool-proof. We have all heard of the people who went awol when the poll-tax was around, plus forgein nationals don't have to register.