 Poster: A snowHead
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Has anyone used click and collect online ordering for French supermarkets, and did it work? Thinking of trying it en route to Les Arcs in January to save the hassle of traipsing around a supermarket.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've passed some kind of "click and collect" place on the motorway between Geneva Airport and Annecy. Might be worth a go. Certainly good to avoid that traipsing round.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@chippie, last time I tried it, even though I had a French issued bank card, it wouldn't let me pay for the shopping with my card, as it wasn't registered to a French address. Things may have changed though.
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Super U in Bourg Saint Maurice has this option if you're heading for Les Arcs. The collection depot is just by the roundabout where the road heads up to Les Arcs too. Never tried it though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Good to know @stevomcd,
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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We use the super u one fairly often - although with a fench registered card so not sure about the address issue - you can order online here: https://www.coursesu.com/home
It's reasonably straightforward.
E Leclerc in aime do the same click and collect system too but I've never tried it. https://www.leclercdrive.fr/
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It's the super u click and collect in bourg that
I'd seen. I'll give it a go in January and see if it works with a uk card.
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@chippie, let us know how you get on.
I was in the Super U at Bourg today and its still a work in progress although slightly better than my visit last month.
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If you get a Revolut card, not only do you get mid-market exchange rates with no fee; but you can alter your "address" at any time and to any country.
This has enabled me to order stuff on the internet whilst in the USA or France, and have it delivered to my apartment, or even hotel!
www.revolut.com
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Good point, @Poogle, I didn't know that Revolut did that.
One of the (many) fraud rules that a card issuer applies when authorising a transaction is to see if the delivery address is the same as the card address. I guess that this could be causing some card transactions to fail.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@tomj, except click and collect isn't a delivery
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I know, but the country of delivery (the click and collect) is different to the country where the card is issued.
These heuristics aren't rocket science, and there are many other factors taken into account, but they are applied.
Click & collect is an online not a card-present transaction, so there's an associated fraud risk. If I had stolen your card details (bought them from the internet) and managed to do a quick transaction before you'd noticed and cancelled your card, then I might use click and collect as a way of getting my hands on something valuable which I could use (or sell on, more likely). Particularly if I don't have to show the card to pick up the goods. Quite a few supermarkets sell high value small items (phones etc) and easily resold white goods that are ideal for click & collect.
From the perspective of the card issuer, if that transaction is 1) unusual or the first time you've used that merchant 2) in a different country then it looks pretty suspicious and so is more likely to be declined.
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@tomj, yes I get all that...but this is a french supermarket with a french issued bank card. it isn't rocket science to think that people might well want to buy something not actually in the country of residence. The key words here are "the country where the card is issued", i.e. France.
As it happens my austrian bank card is registered to my austrian address but my mailing address is in the UK.
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You know it makes sense.
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different stores have different policies for that.
I've had stores disallow the transaction cos the 1st 6 digits of the card number (ie the issuing bank) didn't match the country of the address, but were perfectly fine with the registered address for the card and shipping address being the same. Both with Dutch and UK issued cards. Perfectly happy to accept Paypal though using exactly the same card. No idea if French supermarkets accept that. Doubt it.
Then the other issue is some use the issuing bank and others use the registered address to decided what currency to bill. So if I use my UK card with German address to book a UK rental car in GBP, they insist on converting at their rate in to € and then my card uses their rate and fee to convert to £.
Isn't European integration wonderful.
Not possible to click and collect and pay on collection?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@andy, no it is just a hand out of the shopping at the collection point. I'm going to try and set mine up again before we go at Christmas , so I will report back .
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hi Andy did you have any luck trying this out at xmas
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Hells Bells, sorry tagging you this time
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