What goes wrong
Buying the tape and cutting it dry, with no dispenser, wastes the reason it was listed.
Wholesale Packaging lists Gummed paper tape for this line. A film tape sticks to the surface. Gummed tape needs water and the dispenser. They are not spares for each other.
The check before you reorder
Gummed paper tape is the water-activated paper seal. It bonds to corrugated board.
Keep the dispenser at the bench. Store the rolls flat and dry, away from the film tapes.
Dispatch on that order
At Wholesale Packaging, Gummed paper tape does not change the cutoff. Orders by 3pm leave the same day. Under £50 ex VAT the delivery is still available. It is just not the free threshold.