Comparing two orders, one from the United States and one domestic. The difference in handling is the interesting part, not the price.
The returns address and the contact address are often different and only one of them is a real building.
Filing the paperwork early is worth more than arguing later about whose fault it was.
The virtual card route gives you recourse and the transfer route gives you a lower price. Pick which you actually want.
A card that works domestically can fail on an international merchant for dull, uninteresting, entirely legitimate reasons.
How long would you wait before starting the process?
Be careful reading one parcel as a rule. Two successes build a false model.
No referral links. Shortened links and tracking parameters are the usual offenders.
The sticker on the box is just so you know they were in there. It is the letter that matters.