Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?

[MrHijet]

I have a pretty unsual and fully unrelated question to flowbenching
I would like to buy two ebooks from Amazon.com, however I can't pay them with a european credit card.
I never had such problems, but it looks like the ebook distributor, don't want to sell these book outside
the USA.
To be honest, I have no idea why there are so hard restrictions. The books are just about Running - nothing
dangerous ...

If there is someone who could probably "send them as a gift" to my kindle, I would send the money via
paypal to pay the expenses.

Cheers,

Daniel

[jfholm]

have you just tried going to Amazon Germany http://www.amazon.de see if that works - if not get back to me

John

[MrHijet]

John,

It's even funnier.
if I search for the book in Amazon.de, it is unexisting.

If I search in Amazon.com without being logged in, I can find it.
Am I logged in (or have a Browser Cookie, which identifies me) at Amazon.com , the article is gone again.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017SYMS0/?cor=US

I am not sure if it is possible to "give as a gift" to me, but It would worth a try.

Kind regards,

Daniel

[MrHijet]

Hurray! I got it!

I even fixed it on my own ...

So. I had to change my kindle to be registered in the States. ( As you all know, I have a second home in the USA ). After buying the book, I just had to re-register the Kindle to Germany again.

Thats really crazy stuff ... but at least it worked out fine.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

[jfholm]

Oh that's right Daniel, you have that huge 15,000 square foot home in Scottsdale, Arizona next to the golf course in the gated community.

[Brucepts]

Well you do know we were told about these guys in military briefings; Red Army Faction

So we would not want them to learn how to run!

Sometimes things make no sense on why things are done in the USA!

[jfholm]

I don't have a Kindle btw, I have a Nook by Barnes and Noble. I feel B an N really missed a naming opportunity by not calling it the NOOKe though.

[MrHijet]

Oh B&N ...

They also allowed my to not buy the book.

I put the book into the cart and then I had to register completely, just to get the answer that my credit-card is an international one and the reject THIS book (other ebook could be bought without problems).

And drop the wind of Bruce's suggestion: I can buy the soft-cover and hard-cover version of that book at Amazon Germany and ofcourse I can buy the printed ones from B&N and Amazon.com

It's pretty much the same weird thinking like the Digital-Right-Managment on Movies and region-checks on DVDs and Blu-Rays.

Cheers,

Daniel