Visa declined because of nationality

[shilala]

One other thought...
Many retailers don't want to take a cc from one place and ship to another. ESPECIALLY if the cc is from one country and shipping is to another.
The opportunity for fraud is huge, and for an American to come and try to find, let alone prosecute a criminal across borders would be just plain impossible.
Heck, with Ppal you can't ship anywhere but your own address.
I can definately see that logic.
If they went to Canadian officials and said "Hey, we sent cigars to somewhere in the US for this Canadian so he could avoid Canadian taxes and skirt Canadian law and this bad man stiffed us by stopping payment after he hauled the smokes across the border", what would the law in Canada say?
CI has absolutely no recourse, not to mention the fact that they've colluded in an illegal act.
If you look at it from that direction, it's simply intelligent business. They'd have to have rocks in their heads to even put themselves in that kind of position, right?
It may be a stretch, but I'm sure it's happened and parties have gotten burned.