Need help with Christmas gift
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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
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.
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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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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 . . .
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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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 ordered from here a couple of weeks ago, and paid with my US card.
www.britishcornershop.co.uk
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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




