Making newegg.com Take my Loonies. eh.

Listen up Canucks! If you live in the States, you've probably run into some stupid company that won't take your Canadian-issued credit card because their computer systems won't accept a postal code instead of a zip code.

Once, a Netflix customer service rep.was good enough to explain to me that we had "letters in there or somethin'." It wasn't quite as good as having an Apple Store employee get angry with me because Ontario is not in the United States, and therefore what I am showing her is not "state-issued  ID." In any event, I managed to punch my way through newegg.com's stupid system that wouldn't accept my credit card.

Story goes like this: I can't put in my Province or Postal Code into the newegg site, so I call them up. "We don't accept foreign currencies" they tell me. I ask if they understand how VISA cards work. They say "yes," but are clearly lying. Anyways, then I try to use my Paypal account, but doing this takes over your shipping address, and I can't put a US address into Paypal. I call them up, and they say I'll have to cancel my account, then create a new American one, but it'll take several days to clear or something. Feels very 1.0, so I decided to just barrel ahead.

Here's all you have to do to pay with a Canadian credit card (and get delivery to the USA):