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Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:30 am
by 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
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 1:18 pm
by jfholm
have you just tried going to Amazon Germany
http://www.amazon.de see if that works - if not get back to me
John
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 1:32 pm
by 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
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 1:49 pm
by 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
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:26 pm
by 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.
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 6:23 am
by 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!
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 1:47 pm
by 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.
Re: Someone from the States and having a Kindle ?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:06 pm
by 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