QUOTE(ascend @ Mar 2 2012, 08:44 PM)
Yes true. But many merchants will also ship to alternate address (gifts for others) and so billing and shipping address need not be the same. I guess my point was some merchants will not accept Paypal with malaysia-issued credit cards - same problem as in the old days when Paypal wasn't around yet and some US merchants will not process cards issued in foreign countries.
Added on March 2, 2012, 8:46 pmTimberland US does not ship outside of Continental USA. So i used a freight forwarder VPOST. In my case, it wasn't a shipping issue. It was because the CC registered with Paypal had a malaysian billing address.
Thanks for the suggestion on using paypal cash - i need to check with them.
This 'security feature' is entirely up to the merchant whether they want it or not, in this case Timberland is one of them. There are many well known online stores that practices this policy as well.
This feature is not meant to prevent you from using a non-US issued card per se. As I said, this feature's main use is to prevent fraud, eg in the event someone has access to your paypal account to buy stuff and then shipping it to the thief's address instead. Without this feature, the transaction would have been successful. This is being used within the US itself. Of course, the merchant can choose to be lenient on alternate shipping address, but again it depends on the merchant.
Don't be surprise if merchants that accept international orders, checked to see if your address is listed in your paypal account as well before shipping.
Another thing you might need to check is if they ship to mail forwarders like VPOST. SOME merchants that don't ship overseas won't ship to mail forwarders as well. Even if you try to keep quiet about it, they will know the address belonged to VPOST.
QUOTE(iampokemon @ Mar 2 2012, 10:02 PM)
They set it up not to accept funds from buyers outside of US in their website, but you're still able to pay them direct to their Paypal account.
You could try email them first before using Vpost. As I have also encounter a few website with the same problem as yours.
But when emailed them, they say they do ship to Malaysia even though their website stated only to US continents.Bro, you tried with Newegg before.