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Old Dec 21st 2010 | 4:24 am
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I tried to order some food goodies for Christmas through Tesco for the in-laws. Tesco won't accept a US issued CC for payment. Can anyone recommend a site that does Christmas goodies, accepts US cards and will deliver. Doesn't need to be before Christmas, as we know what the weather is like there at the moment. Thanks.
 
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I think Fortnum & Masons might. Their FAQs talk about what exchange rate will be used when paying with an overseas credit card.

http://www.fortnumandmason.com/faqs.aspx
 
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Does it say explicitly that they wont accept an overseas card? If not, fudge the address info if the fields aren't quite right for a US address and see what happens.
 
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I tried to order some food goodies for Christmas through Tesco for the in-laws. Tesco won't accept a US issued CC for payment. Can anyone recommend a site that does Christmas goodies, accepts US cards and will deliver. Doesn't need to be before Christmas, as we know what the weather is like there at the moment. Thanks.
I know m & s accepted my American cc a few weeks ago for a voucher which was sent to a uk address so would imagine they would for food goodies as well.
 
Old Dec 21st 2010 | 4:50 am
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Originally Posted by joto
I tried to order some food goodies for Christmas through Tesco for the in-laws. Tesco won't accept a US issued CC for payment. Can anyone recommend a site that does Christmas goodies, accepts US cards and will deliver. Doesn't need to be before Christmas, as we know what the weather is like there at the moment. Thanks.
Have you tried Amazon.co.uk? If you have an account with Amazon.com you can order on .co.uk with no problems, and have it delivered to a UK address.
 
Old Dec 21st 2010 | 4:53 am
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Associated Dairies? Sorry, ASDA?
 
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Amazon certainly allows you to order on the UK site with a US card/address. I have also ordered from M & S in the past, and have used a number of UK places that sell things like handmade chocolates (just Google).

I recently ran into a problem trying to order kids' clothes from Next on the UK site-- it started off demanding a UK phone number and went downhill from there. I tried to fudge it with my sister's phone no/address, but your credit card had to be registered at the address you put down as yours on the order form, so that was the end of that. Then I asked the US site if I could order with them and have items delivered in the UK. They said, sure, have them sent to yourself and then ship them . . .
 
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I tried M&S. They're not accepting any more orders for delivery to Scotland until after Christmas. BGR. Then they won't have what I wanted to order in. BGR. I will have to resort to a gift card then, and I don't like giving gift cards. I knew the weather wasn't good, but I didn't know Scotland had shut down until after Christmas. Bah humbug.
 
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Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts
Does it say explicitly that they wont accept an overseas card? If not, fudge the address info if the fields aren't quite right for a US address and see what happens.
Wouldn't the cc be declined then?
 
Old Dec 21st 2010 | 6:52 am
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Amazon uk.
Does Sainsburys or Morrisons deliver?
 
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Originally Posted by joto
I tried to order some food goodies for Christmas through Tesco for the in-laws. Tesco won't accept a US issued CC for payment. Can anyone recommend a site that does Christmas goodies, accepts US cards and will deliver. Doesn't need to be before Christmas, as we know what the weather is like there at the moment. Thanks.
What 'goodies' do you need? Is it food items?

I ordered from here a couple of weeks ago, and paid with my US card.

www.britishcornershop.co.uk
 
Old Dec 21st 2010 | 9:15 am
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Thanks guys, especially Nettlebed for the Amazon suggestion. Panic over. It won't get there until after Christmas, but the in-laws knew that. At least it will get there before New Year
 

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