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olis · 06-03-2009, 05:26 PM

I will repost what I said in another thread:

I live in Italy and less than a year ago I bought a kindle1 from a US ebayer, there are serious disadvantages in doing that:

1)I had to pay the import duty and VAT (about 20% of the final price)
2)Shipping costs were relatively high (about 50$)
3)Amazon doesn't offer digital contents from the kindle store to international customers.
4)whispernet doesn't work in Europe, there is no infrastructure for it.

I was aware of all the above points nonetheless I couldn't resist, but surely I would not recommend doing that.

06-03-2009, 05:26 PM	#4
olis Zealot Posts: 107 Karma: 369 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Italy Device: prs-500, Nokia N810, Irex dr1000s, Kindle3	I will repost what I said in another thread: I live in Italy and less than a year ago I bought a kindle1 from a US ebayer, there are serious disadvantages in doing that: 1)I had to pay the import duty and VAT (about 20% of the final price) 2)Shipping costs were relatively high (about 50$) 3)Amazon doesn't offer digital contents from the kindle store to international customers. 4)whispernet doesn't work in Europe, there is no infrastructure for it. I was aware of all the above points nonetheless I couldn't resist, but surely I would not recommend doing that.