I used paypal to try to purchase from timberland.com (usa).

Timberland normally accepts Paypal, but apparently if the paypal account has a billing address (for the registered credit card) in Malaysia, Timberland will not process the order.

This is something i certainly have not heard of. I thought the idea of using Paypal is so that buyers would not have to reveal credit details. So merchants will charge Paypal and in turn Paypal will bill your credit card. Apparent this is not the case. According to Timberland, they will be able to match your entered billing address with the address stored on Paypal. Problem is Timberland will not allow you to enter a malaysian billing address.
See the problem

sigh..

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.

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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 post has been edited by ascend: Mar 2 2012, 08:46 PM