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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Sure, Juliette, but surely we shouldn't have to jump through hoops backwards to buy something someone openly advertises for sale. All I wanno do is buy a book honestly for gossake. I'm sick of being told that my hard-earned money ain't good enough. Because racial prejudice ain't kosher these days, even I -- as a blatant Scotsman -- am welcome anywhere ... as long as I don't have the sheer audacity not to live in Podunk, US of A. It really pisses me off. I can understand geographical restrictions on some titles where there are copyright problems, but I cannot understand the support system of a device I buy being unavailable to me because I happen to have bought that device (from an authorised dealer) in an undesirable country ... like any country outside the US. Neil
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This is too true. I guess I'm a bit machiavellian
but the point is that you're right.
One point: maybe it's the slack Italian customs, but if I order a pbook from Amazon.com they will ask me a lot of money for shipping, but I won't pay a cent for taxes. So why should I be penalised because I get my text through the internet and just the internet?