Originally Posted by radonc1

This is a safety issue as well as a fraud prevention issue.

Several years ago, someone hacked one of my credit cards and placed an order for a very expensive SLR camera on-line. They requested that it be shipped to an address which differed from my credit card billing address. The company stupidly assumed that all was kosher and shipped the camera to the hacker's phony address (probably had someone pick up the parcel outside the drop-off address). At that time, I did not have alerts to warn me of CC purchases, and when I saw the bill, of course I denied ever initiating it.

I suspect the merchant ate the loss. The CC company reversed the charge to me after it was discovered that the shipping address didn't match the billing address.

So, I suspect that merchants such as Best Buy, who probably have more experience than they wish in this arena, will cancel any electronic order that does not match a purchaser's billing address, or make the credit card buyer go through a lot of hoops if they want the item shipped to an alternative address. I suspect that if that address is a known buying group, cancellation is almost a given.