Address
What is Address Jigging?
Address jigging essentially refers to slightly modifying your real address to bypass a store’s duplicate address detection system while retaining the core of your address so that UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc. can still recognize your address and deliver it to where you live.
This can be done through various methods, such as abbreviations, misspellings, adding in random line 2 of address, adding in a mix of 1-4 letters into your address and so on.
For example, if your address was
123 Test Road
You can modify your address to the following
123 Test Rd
This would be one way of modifying your real address to a different one.
Why is Address Jigging Necessary?
Many stores have a policy in place that allow only one purchase per customer. They can either have automated systems in place or a manual review of orders to ensure that only one order is being sent to that address.
Big merchants such as Nike and Supreme will have automated systems in place for this to automatically filter orders for duplicate addresses and cancel duplicates, or in some cases, all orders being sent to your address.
Smaller merchants can manually review orders to ensure that duplicates aren’t being sent to the same address. In cases like these, address jigging may not work as well, and sometimes may require unique addresses altogether like Kith.
Address jigging is not always necessary however. Some websites, such as Footsites, do not require you to jig your address to get multiples as they do not filter orders by address. In some cases, jigging your address can increase your fraud score depending on the website’s payment processor and how strict they are, so keep this in mind.
The severity of your address jig will depend on the website you are going for. For some sites, you can use minor address jigs such as abbreviating street suffixes like street to st, road to rd, etc. and adding a random line 2 such as apt, unit, floor, etc. For other sites that filter more strictly, they may require additional jigging such as adding in an additional 2-4 letters in certain places of your address.
Jig and Address Modification Methods
There are many ways you can modify your address to bypass a store’s address filtration system, while still letting whoever is delivering your packages be able to find your address.
Method 1: Line 1 - Street Suffix Abbreviation
This is the most basic form of address jig you can do. It’s a nice method as it is easy for a shipping company to understand which avoids any issues with deliveries or with the driver not being able to find your house. These are generally universally approved abbreviations that will ensure your package still arrives where it needs to.
Street suffixes will include words such as street, road, avenue, etc. Changing the suffix of your address at the end of your address line 1 is one method you can use to modify your address to appear as a different person.
You can find a list of abbreviations in the following link for the suffix of your address in line 1.
Street Suffix Abbreviations: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28apc_002.htm
Street
Street
Streets
Strt
St
Str
Sts
Check to see common abbreviations for your address that you can use to build new addresses.
If you live on 123 Test Street, you could do the following variations for new addresses:
123 Test Street
123 Test Streets
123 Test Strt
123 Test St
123 Test Str
123 Test Sts
This would give you a total of 6 new addresses that you can use that would still be read the same way as your true address.
Find the suffix of your address and do the same thing as shown above with the 123 Test Street example to build addresses for your own address.
Method 2: Line 2 - Random Secondary Unit
This is another basic address jig similar to the suffix modification in the previous example. In this case, you are randomizing the line 2 of your address. There are different ways to do this depending on whether or not you live in a house or in an actual apartment, unit, etc.
If you live in a house or address that does not have a line 2 attached to it, then you can oftentimes just insert any random line 2 designator here such as house, home, unit, apt, suite, door, floor, room, etc. The delivery company will still be able to find your address and will simply ignore the useless line 2 portion you added into your address.
For example, going back to the address 123 Test Street, you could do a mix of the following and it would still be able to be delivered to your house with no issue:
123 Test Street
House 1
123 Test Street
Apt 1
In addition to adding a random line 2 in your address, you can also mess with the secondary line 2 number field. Instead of Apt 1, you can change it to Apt 2A, Apt 100C and so on. Since the line 1 of your address is correct, they should all deliver to your residence with no issue.
You can find a list of commonly used secondary line 2 of address here:
Line 2 Options and Abbreviations: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28apc_003.htm
Some more options include:
Apartment: APT
Avenue: AVE
Beach: BCH
Boulevard:BLVD
Building: BLDG
Canyon: CYN
Center: CTR
Circle: CIR
Condo: CNDO
Court: CT
Crescent: CRES
Crossing: XING
Department: DEPT
Drive: DR
Expressway: EXPY
Falls: FLS
Field: FLD
Floor: FL
Fort: FT
Gardens: GDNS
Harbor: HBR
Heights: HTS
Highway: HWY
Hills: HLS
Island: IS
Junction: JCT
Lake: LK
Landing: LDG
Lane: LN
Lodge: LDG
Mount: MT
Mountain: MTN
Office: OFC
Parkway: PKWY
Penthouse: PH
Plaza: PLZ
Point: PT
Road: RD
Room: RM
Route: RTE
Square: SQ
Station: STA
Street: ST
Studio:
Suite: STE
Terrace: TER
Turnpike: TPKE
Valley: VLY
The above options are just starting points for you to consider. You can additionally do many abbreviations with the above. As an example, if you did Apartment for line 2 of your address, you can abbreviate it to the following:
Apartment
Apt
Aprtment
Aptmnt
And so on
If you actually require a line 2 in your address because you live in an apartment, then this will be more tricky.
Apartment: APT
Avenue: AVE
Beach: BCH
Boulevard:BLVD
Building: BLDG
Canyon: CYN
Center: CTR
Circle: CIR
Condo: CNDO
Court: CT
Crescent: CRES
Crossing: XING
Department: DEPT
Drive: DR
Expressway: EXPY
Falls: FLS
Field: FLD
Floor: FL
Fort: FT
Gardens: GDNS
Harbor: HBR
Heights: HTS
Highway: HWY
Hills: HLS
Island: IS
Junction: JCT
Lake: LK
Landing: LDG
Lane: LN
Lodge: LDG
Mount: MT
Mountain: MTN
Office: OFC
Parkway: PKWY
Penthouse: PH
Plaza: PLZ
Point: PT
Road: RD
Room: RM
Route: RTE
Square: SQ
Station: STA
Street: ST
Studio:
Suite: STE
Terrace: TER
Turnpike: TPKE
Valley: VLY
The above options are just starting points for you to consider. You can additionally do many abbreviations with the above. As an example, if you did Apartment for line 2 of your address, you can abbreviate it to the following:
Apartment
Apt
Aprtment
Aptmnt
And so on
If you actually require a line 2 in your address because you live in an apartment, then this will be more tricky.
Depending on where you live, you may still be able to use words that are similar to apartment as an example, but not quite the same word. Examples of this include Room, Unit, Suite, etc. For example, if you live in:
123 Test Street Apt 1A
You could try a few variations such as:
123 Test Street Unit 1A
123 Test Street Room 1A
123 Test Street Suite 1A
However you may want to check with your building or test it out on a lesser value item to see if it would deliver still if you chose to use this method.
Another option would be going back to the abbreviation example. You could still abbreviate line 2 of your address - Apartment, Apt, Apartment, Aptmnt and so on.
123 Test Street
Apartment 1A
123 Test Street
Apt 1A
Method 3: Random Letters
This is a more advanced level jig, however a very commonly used one on many sites. In this method, you will insert 1-4 random letters into various places of your address.
The idea of this jig is that it scrambles your address more than the basic jigs mentioned previously in this guide. WIth this method, most delivery companies should be able to find your address still.
You can insert the letters into various places of your address. The best places to insert the random 1-4 letters would be in the following locations:
Before the street number
Immediately after the street number (keep this max to 1-2 letters)
In between the street number and name of street
At the end of your street name
For example, if you had the following addresses:
A 123 Test Street
AB 123 Test Street
ABC 123 Test Street
ABCD 123 Test Street
123A Test Street
123AB Test Street
123 A Test Street
123 AB Test Street
123 ABC Test Street
123 ABCD Test Street
123 Test Street A
123 Test Street AB
123 Test Street ABC
123 Test Street ABCD
The core elements of your address still exist and the delivery company should still be able to find your address in most cases as long as you use your correct zip code.
The nice part about this address jig method is that it gives you many ways to modify your address so that a store cannot recognize it immediately. This method can give you many possible address choices to use in your billing profiles. This is great for websites such as Supreme and Yeezy Supply that can filter out addresses more heavily to make it seem more unique and help you bypass address filtration for duplicates.
Note that you will not be able to use a tool such as this one to validate the address https://www.ups.com/address_validator/search?loc=en_US with this method. In rare cases, the sorting center for the delivery company shipping your package can have trouble reading the address and choose to send it back. Although this does not happen commonly, in some cases it can happen.
I don’t personally recommend to go too crazy with this jig method. Before using it too often, you should see if your delivery company would be able to deliver the package to your house. For most people it will deliver just fine, however a small possibility exists that the sorting center or driver won’t be able to find your house and send it back.
Many people don’t mind using it for all of their profiles for most sites. It can be a great way to modify your address on sites like Nike/Snkrs, Supreme, Yeezy Supply, etc.
Method 4: Misspelling
Misspelling your address in minor ways is another way to modify your address.
With this method, you just want to have minor misspellings. You don’t want to butcher your address to the point your delivery company can’t find where you live. It could be something as minor as adding an extra letter somewhere in your address, or removing a specific letter to have it as a different address but still being able to make out the original address.
When misspelling your address, try to just do the following at most:
Remove one letter from the address
Add one or two letters to the address
For example, if you lived at the following address:
123 North Street
Some basic misspelling can include:
123 Nrth Street
123 Noorth Street
123 Nirth Street
123 Northh Streeet
In these cases, the delivery company should still be able to make out where the package should be going.
Similar to the random letter method, you still want to make sure that they can find where to deliver the package. You don’t want to be in the scenario where you misspelled your address too much that it caused it to be returned to sender.
Try to keep it simple as much as possible and never overdo it.
Method 5: Flipping Line 1 and 2 of Address
An overlooked address jig is simply flipping the line 1 and 2 of your address.
For example, if your address is:
123 Test Street
Apt 3J
You can simply flip it so line 2 goes to line 1, and line 1 goes to line 2:
Apt 3J
123 Test Street
In this case, your address is still very easy to read and delivery companies should have no trouble finding where the package is supposed to go.
This jig works surprisingly very well and doesn’t lead to as many problems as adding random letters into your address or abusing misspelling of address.
Combining Jig Methods
You can use a mix of the mentioned options above in order to create multiple and unique addresses for your billing profile.
For example, you can combine the line 1 street suffix abbreviation with a random line 2 and abbreviation method to create an alternate address you can use for your billing profiles.
For example, going back to the address of
123 Test Street
You can combine these two methods to create one address:
123 Test St
Apt 3C
123 Test Strt
Unit 100B
You could also take it a step further and incorporate the misspelling method into these addresses.
123 Teest St
Apt 3C
123 Testt Strt
Unit 100B
Although you could also incorporate the random letter jig into your profile, this one is sometimes a method I’d recommend more for jigging on its own and not messing with the rest of your address as much. However, you could always incorporate minor versions of it to your address:
123A Test St
Apt 3C
AB 123 Test Strt
Unit 100B
You can also flip line 1 and 2 of your address to make a brand new address.
Apt 3C
123 Test St
Unit 100B
123 Test Strt
Take some time to come up with your own address jigs based on the methods mentioned throughout this guide. You can come up with a lot of address combinations that should have you covered if you need to have unique addresses for the store you are going for. Not all stores require you to jig your address, and the severity of which you have to jig will vary on the store you are going for.
Selecting Which Jig Method to Use
Not all websites require you to jig your address. For some websites you don’t need to jig at all for, while others may require a slight jig and even a more heavy jig.
I would classify each method under the following:
Minor Jig
Heavier Jig
The minor jig methods mentioned above are still relatively easy for the delivery company to find where you live. They also will generally show up in the address validation tools mentioned in the next section so you will almost never have to worry about packages not being able to find their destination.
The heavier jig methods will oftentimes not show up in address validation tools, but will just give you a general range the address may fall under. Usually the delivery company will still be able to pinpoint where you live based off your zip code. However some people don’t feel comfortable using this method, so the warning is worth mentioning. As stated previously, it will work just fine for many people. Just don’t get carried away and jig too hard to the point they can’t find where to deliver the package to.
Some people just use the heavy jig methods for every website they run for and have no problem doing so. You can take a look at the Site Jig Methods for some basic guidance on the address jig method you should be using in your billing profiles for the website you are going for.
Feel free to experiment with it on your own and see what works best for you. After all, you won’t know if something works for you or not until you try it for yourself.
Card Billing Address
Almost every credit or debit card that you would use to make a purchase only check to see if the zip code matches. This means you can set your line 1 and 2 of address to whatever you want to, so long as it is within the same zip code your card is registered to.
This is the reason why jigging your address to something else other than the one registered exactly to your card works. Even if your card was registered to:
Modifying Your Own Address in Correct Zip Code
123 Test Street
New York, NY 10012
You can use the following as both billing and shipping address just fine:
123AB Test Street
New York, NY 10012
123 Test St Apt 3D
New York, NY 10012
Apt 3D
123 Test St
New York, NY 10012
ABCD 123 Test Street
New York, NY 10012
So long as the correct zip code is used, these will work just fine.
Using Another Address in Same Zip Code
You can even ship to a neighbors house in most cases.
456 Test Street
New York, NY 10012
Would also work just fine.
Matching Shipping and Billing
When you jig your address, it is recommended to match the shipping and billing address. As noted above, your card will not decline you for this as long as it is in the correct zip code.
You should match the billing address to the jigged shipping address, as you want it to appear as a unique order to the merchant. If you leave the billing address as the original unjigged address, then they are able to link the orders together.
If you set your shipping address to:
123AB Test Street
New York, NY 10012
Then you billing address should be:
123AB Test Street
New York, NY 10012
Address Validation Tools
You can use the following address validation tools if you want to see if it will pick up a general range of where you live.
Remember that some of the methods such as the random character method may not show up if you use this method. This does not mean it won’t work. Most delivery companies will still be able to find your address regardless. Just be careful not to over jig to the point they can’t.
Profile Tools
As seen throughout this guide, there are many ways for someone to jig their address. However, it can be very time consuming to manually set up all of those address variations. Additionally, you will want something you can use to store all your profile address jigs so you do not need to set it up manually for each bot.
There are profile tools that you can use out there that can jig your address for you. The best tool for this is AYCD. It allows you to easily create, jig and manage your address for profiles for conversion to multiple bots.
AYCD Guides can be found below that are worth reading:
https://aycd.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058115713-Profile-Converter-Expressions
Expressions are particurarly helpful when jigging your address. It allows you to do various things, such as change up your street suffix, add a random street suffix, add random letters to any part of your address and so on.
For example, if you wanted to add 3 random letters to your address, 123 Test Road, to something like, 123 BCD Test Road, then you can use the %c3% expression to do this.
This option can be found using the mass edit/jig tool, which can be found by selecting your profiles and then clicking edit in the top left and select mass edit/jig.
For similar expressions, follow the link to AYCD's guide for expressions linked above.
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