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by robocat 1101 days ago
Happened to me yesterday I’m from New Zealand, trying to buy something from a Chinese website There was obviously some localisation code for New Zealand, but 1st it incorrecly tries to validate phone number, then 2nd it asks for address and prefills the rest of it completely wrong (Canterbury is NOT a state, and it is not a mail destination , and the abbreviation CAN is not recognised by anyone as Canterbury.

I absolutely hate it when you try to give a company some money, and they just fail to close the sale!
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PinguTS 1101 days ago
Same problem here with ordering from AliExpress to Germany.

They try to make some localization and validation and fail greatly with that.

The province doesn't matter in German addresses at all. But when entering the ZIP code it always presented me the city as the main city in the province, which is not my city. My city is 20km away.

At the end I put everything again into the second address field, which allowed some free form input.

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