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Asking for postcode when trying to add payment method?

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    #32
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    monkeynuz wrote: »

    Ironically some companies in Ireland were slower to accept the eircode than UK ones.

    That's because an Eircode is not necessary to ensure delivery within Ireland.

    Any company these days that don't accept an eircode or remove the requirement for a postcode simply does not want business from Ireland and is best avoided.


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    #33
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    tuxy wrote: »
    That's because an Eircode is not necessary to ensure delivery within Ireland.

    Any company these days that don't accept an eircode or remove the requirement for a postcode simply does not want business from Ireland and is best avoided.

    Really?

    I thought the eircode was just as relevant for Irish orders as overseas, considering they're both delivered in Ireland?

    Personally I don't care whether a company accepts it or not, I was merely trying to help the OP, you have slightly derailed the thread.


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    #34
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    monkeynuz wrote: »
    Really?

    I thought the eircode was just as relevant for Irish orders as overseas, considering they're both delivered in Ireland?

    Personally I don't care whether a company accepts it or not, I was merely trying to help the OP, you have slightly derailed the thread.

    Depends on who will be delivering it. Officially An Post do not require an eircode.

    I don't think it's derailing to advise people to avoid dealing with companies who do not wish to offer a service within Ireland.


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    #35
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    tuxy wrote: »
    Depends on who will be delivering it. Officially An Post do not require an eircode.

    I don't think it's derailing to advise people to avoid dealing with companies who do not wish to offer a service within Ireland.

    If someone wants an iPhone then they have to deal with apple.

    It is unhelpful to just tell people not to deal with companies that aren't fully set up for eircode.

    From the an post website

    "At An Post we encourage our customers to use an Eircode on all addresses whenever possible. You do not necessarily need to have an Eircode when sending an item, but including one on the address ensures that your post person can pinpoint the exact location. In either case, it is always necessary to include the full physical address on every item"

    And you never commented on the point that you didn't actually read my original reply correctly in the first place lol :)


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    #36
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Apple are not setup to use Irish postal addresses with or without eircodes.
    They do not currently want all their services available to Irish customers.
    It is useful to make people aware of this.
    monkeynuz wrote: »
    It is unhelpful to just tell people not to deal with companies that aren't fully set up for eircode.
    No what I said is companies can easily offer services to Irish customers without using eircodes if they choose. It's not mandatory.


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    #37
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    tuxy wrote: »
    Apple are not setup to use Irish postal addresses with or without eircodes.
    They do not currently want all their services available to Irish customers.
    It is useful to make people aware of this.


    No what I said is companies can easily offer services to Irish customers without using eircodes if they choose. It's not mandatory.


    This is hilarious, this is taken from two of your previous posts.

    "Any company these days that don't accept an eircode or remove the requirement for a postcode simply does not want business from Ireland and is best avoided."


    "I don't think it's derailing to advise people to avoid dealing with companies who do not wish to offer a service within Ireland."


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    #38
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    monkeynuz wrote: »
    This is hilarious, this is taken from two of your previous posts.

    "Any company these days that don't accept an eircode or remove the requirement for a postcode simply does not want business from Ireland and is best avoided."


    "I don't think it's derailing to advise people to avoid dealing with companies who do not wish to offer a service within Ireland."

    I now withdraw and apologise for my previous statements.

    I advise people to only deal with companies that do not wish to offer services in Ireland.


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    #39
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    tuxy wrote: »
    I now withdraw and apologise for my previous statements.

    I advise people to only deal with companies that do not wish to offer services in Ireland.

    :rolleyes:


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    #40
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    No pleasing some people.


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    #41
    Bilbert55
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Bilbert55


    im havin the same issue?

    did u find a solution?


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    #42
    Bilbert55
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Bilbert55


    Bilbert55 wrote: »
    im havin the same issue?

    did u find a solution?

    I spent 30 mins on with Support....

    NONE is what you use


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    #43
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Victor wrote: »
    Be wary of handing out your Eircode, it identifies your home and given that there are an average of 2.7 people per home, effectively you.

    :rolleyes:


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    #44
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Victor wrote: »
    Be wary of handing out your Eircode, it identifies your home and given that there are an average of 2.7 people per home, effectively you.

    The name and address you also provide would also identify you...


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    #45
    Mezzotint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Mezzotint


    Apple seem to make a complete mess of Irish addresses on their website. I found when I ordered things the lines of the address were mashed into some kind of Germanic-Style format and the package ended up with lines missing, despite having supplied them.

    The eircode bit worked, but the rest of the address got garbled.


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    #46
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Mezzotint wrote: »
    Apple seem to make a complete mess of Irish addresses on their website. I found when I ordered things the lines of the address were mashed into some kind of Germanic-Style format and the package ended up with lines missing, despite having supplied them.

    The eircode bit worked, but the rest of the address got garbled.

    Someone should tell them about this problem.


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    #47
    Mezzotint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Mezzotint


    tuxy wrote: »
    Someone should tell them about this problem.

    I fed it back twice and got no response. They clearly just like our tax rates.


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    #48
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Mezzotint wrote: »
    I fed it back twice and got no response. They clearly just like our tax rates.

    True, they have little interest in having Irish customers.


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    #49
    Mezzotint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Mezzotint


    tuxy wrote: »
    True, they have little interest in having Irish customers.

    Seems that way sometimes, particularly with the complete lack of interest in opening retail and so on here.

    Google are even worse - they only bothered making Pixel phones available here very recently, despite the spec being identical to the EU and UK (charger wise)


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    #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mezzotint wrote: »
    Seems that way sometimes, particularly with the complete lack of interest in opening retail and so on here.

    Google are even worse - they only bothered making Pixel phones available here very recently, despite the spec being identical to the EU and UK (charger wise)

    An awful lot of Google features get lost in the trip over the Atlantic too.


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    #51
    ZoZoZo
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭ZoZoZo


    Ran into this problem myself today, after trying a whole bunch of other things a single zero finally worked for me in case this helps anyone else.

    On a more general note tuxy is correct, you would want to be a complete moron to voluntarily (I don't have a choice as my employer supplies my phone) use Apple products in Ireland. Leaving aside the retarded UI design consider the problem at hand:

    Apple 'Engineer' 1: Right we're going restrict the set of inputs that are treated as valid in this field, do you think should give the user a list of the acceptable values ?
    Apple 'Engineer' 2: I don't see why we should, I mean everyone likes a guessing game, don't they ?
    Apple 'Engineer' 1: Fair enough, but we'll at least make sure the accept list does in fact contain all valid inputs, right ?
    Apple 'Engineer' 2: But then we'd have to check what the valid inputs are, that sounds like work and I'm already behind on my donkey-porn watching schedule. So let's leave it at that, I've got lots of donkey-porn to watch before I leave the office this evening.
    Apple 'Engineer' 1: Fair enough, we won't bother fixing it, I'm busy myself I hear one of our researchers has got his dick caught in his PC fan again, I'll go and see if I can help with the extraction.


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    #52
    GSPfan
    Registered Users Posts: 7,843 ✭✭✭GSPfan


    I know this problem is a year old but I’ve dealt with this issue before. I had to set up about 10 iPads a few years ago for work colleagues to use for reporting while out doing surveys and the postcode issue came up. I had set up 10 brand new Apple ID’s and some worked straight away and some didn’t.

    First thing you do is leave it blank and see if that works. The next thing you try is to put the letters ROI in the postcode. Those will probably work 50% of the time. When it doesn’t work you need to contact apple and tell them it’s not working and they will do something to your account to allow you to do it. It’s something weird with your apple id setup.

    Sorry I can’t remember the exact details of it but it’s a problem I dealt with a few years ago now.


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