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What is common practice for e-commerce websites, concerning a difference in Shipping and Billing addresses? Pretty straight forward question.<p>Is there any laws to consider?<p>To make a long back story relatively short, I had placed an order wirth an online retailer for some collectables. I noticed about a week after having received the confirmation e-mail, I recieved another e-mail notifying me that there was an issue with the order. I login and see that the order status has been changed from "processing" to "contact us," so I e-mail and ask about the status change. They e-mailed me asking to provide full first and last name for the shipping address (I typically only use initials for the name field or give no name at all, out of privacy concerns) and confirm that it is the same address as the billing address. Further the e-mail stated that the company needed to know the reason for the differing addresses. Then, not 3 hours later, another e-mailed arrived from the company stating that the order had been canceled, because they could not contact me via phone or e-mail.<p>I have ordered countless items from other online retailers in similar fashion and never encountered this problem (btw, my billing address is almost always different from shipping address, because I use my parents address as my permanent address (i e billing address), while I am away at school ~9 months out of the year). I am just generally bewildered by the whole ordeal and I am frankly unsure what the normal procedure for online retailers is.<p>Please leave a comment if you can offer any insight into this.<p>Thank you,

So, I am a full time business student and I recently sought (and technically am still seeking) a part time job. So I talk to some people and I say ideally I would like a web design position, part time for 10-15 hours per week(I have lots of experience, a decent web portfolio, and solid knowledge of html, css, php, mysql, and a few other tidbits of languages and know how to fit them together to develop things like a CMS and database based apps). So, someone says yeah I know a guy that needs graphic designer, do you know photoshop. I do webdesign, so I know my way around photoshop, and for that matter Flash, and Fireworks too.

So anyway, I talk to a possible employer and he asks for samples of my work. He knows full well i originally asked about a web design position and it was upon a mutual friends introduction and recommendation that I am now talking to him about a graphic design position. I could go on and on all day about how web designers and graphic designers are really two different entities (well often the same person) that are after two different things. Web designers optimize images for size (small), type (we love jpegs), and 9 times out of 10 would much rather use css to say change a background color, never mind resolution limitations. Conversely graphic designers (artists) want everything perfect, highest resolutions possible, have great depth of color, ect. (well maybe not that extreme, but you get my point)

So here's the question (well questions...), A) What work or parts of my work should I include in my portfolio to submit (or should I just show the entire website?)? B) Should I be working on a few pieces that better show my graphic design talents and if so, any suggestions?

Thank you for your time.