in the old thread, however, i remember somebody calling adidas UK up and they claimed not to care whether the shipping address is just a forwarding address. it's more impt for them, i think, that it's a UK shipping and billing address. which is why i was asking if you used an international credit card because that's how mine was cancelled. i called them up and it's a primary factor that the billing address of the credit card is in the UK and the guy on the other line says he thinks the Adidas UK system is made to reject any cc without a UK address.
then again, I know for a fact that the Adidas UK charge did go through then reversed by merchant like most of us here has experienced, and it's a matter of their discretion to cancel it.