Ordered from South Africa for the first time and the credit card payment triggered every fraud check the bank has.
Filing the paperwork early is worth more than arguing later about whose fault it was.
The bank blocking a payment is a completely different problem from the shop blocking it, and the fix is different.
The returns address and the contact address are often different and only one of them is a real building.
What changed my experience was splitting orders rather than ordering larger and less often.
Anyone know the actual process rather than the folklore?
No referral links. Shortened links and tracking parameters are the usual offenders.
Split orders. Two small parcels beat one large one for reasons that have nothing to do with price.
The cheapest option costs more once you price in the failure rate.
Same here.
The declaration contradicting the return address is what gets it opened.
Everyone is an expert until the first seizure letter.
Same here.