When a mail order merchant ships a product to an address other than the billing address they assume a certain amount of risk. Most are willing to deal with that risk if at least the billing address matches the card. Consider the worst case scenario: A customer orders a product. Billing address matches the card, but the shipping address doesn't. The merchant ships the product. Customer claims they never ordered the product and files a charge back with their card issuing bank. The burden of proof in most cases is on the merchant. Since the product wasn't shipped to a verified address the merchant will probably eat that transaction. If this happens too often, the merchant's bank could consider them a risk and raise their interchange rates, or cancel their card processing account. Thus, quite a few merchants have become sticklers about address verification, especially with larger orders. I would be.
On 2/28/06, Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My memory aside, off hand I don't recall making an on line purchase > wherein I wasn't asked to indicate the "ship to address-if different". > Odd! > > Jack > > --- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I found a dealer in Milwaukee that has an istDS2 in stock. They will > > only > > ship to the credit card billing address. I get my mail at a PO Box - > > it's > > safer that way since I don't have a mail slot in my door and i don't > > like > > leaving mail in the box when I'm not around. Well, these guys won't > > ship > > to a PO box. I asked if they'd ship to my home via UPS or FedEx ... > > Nope, > > only to the billing address, but not if the billing address is a PO > > Box. > > > > OK, anyone got a clue as to why some places won't ship to a PO box? > > > > > > Shel > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- "You have to hold the button down" -Arnold Newman
