Online shopping while on the road
How would I order something online when on the road? Can I have something shipped to a post office without a po box, if I am going to be somewhere for a few days? I can't find anything conclusive onli...
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2oldman wrote:
You guys are a hoot sometimes.
Purchasing products online is different from using the physical card buying gas or food. I have tried to buy online using Amex, and if the shipping and billing addresses didn't match, THAT was a big problem.
Cancel the card? I doubt that, but it's not inconceivable Amex would text me and ask me if that's what I did. I stopped getting paper statements years ago.
Just to appease everyone, I'll rephrase: " You may have to change your CC address for the card to go through."
I have bought dozens if not hundreds of items using my Amex card--all delivered to a different shipping address than billing address. It is common practice, and indeed must be done for buying gifts online.
I would definitely not recommend changing your CC address while on the road just to receive a package. Any address change to an account that reports to credit agencies will be retained long after you have changed it back or to someplace else. That can be a negative. In addition, the address change might not be instantaneous as far as card authorizations. For example the zip code that is needed at many gas pumps to authorize a CC transaction can take days to weeks to reflect a change (i.e, the old zip code will work but not the new).
Mike
