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Originally Posted by cheerio6414
Sounds a little shady to me, best of luck to you
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How so? You easily can have an address in the US, work in UK and have a Spanish credit card (just to give an example of one of my colleagues).
And it's exactly like that in the T&Cs of Amazon. You need a valid billing address: Can be a PO box or whatever, bingo. You need a valid credit card: They easily would be able to check, whether the billing address of the credit card does match the one you've registered. They're not doing it, nor do they insist on them being identical.
And I guess, this totally makes sense.
Just an example: Let's say, you're US citizen, working for 3 years in Europe. It makes sense for you to get a European credit card. As you travel a lot, you stick to your US address, although the credit card is inked to the address of your employer. Of course you still should be able to use your US account. But how should Amazon differentiate between this case and someone who only has got a PO box in the US or is using his uncle's address?
But with the introduction of the international Kindles, they had to find a solution for this. In the beginning, they've tried scenarios like additional fees for downloading content outside your home region. If you sell a gadget globally, you have to give access to the tools (content) globally. If you want to force geo restrictions onto your customers, you proactively have to state so in your T&Cs. And: I'm no lawyer. But as far as I know, the legal situation is similar to copyright of physical media like DVDs. If someone copies a DVD (different situation, but similar legal argumentation), that's only illegal, if there has been some copy protection in place. In our example here: If they'd check IPs and we would use VPN, this certainly would be a different situation. But as long as they only insist on a valid billing address...