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Originally Posted by suecsi
mgmueller
I'm glad it does work - as your scenario is indeed, entirely realistic, having been PA to a number of expats over the years. It would seem Amazon is currently not as tightly controlled on the geo restrictions as some shops, who insist that the billing address of your credit card and 'registered country' must match - usually something that can be overcome with vouchers in some retailers, since they don't require an address match.
However, I have seen quite a bit of IP tracing going on where you sometimes get away with buying the book and get the 'you appear to be in another country' prompt which prevents you from downloading it unless you use HideMyAss or another VPN via the USA. Fictionwise were particular culprits for this.
I did once try changing my country to USA on the Manage My Kindle page but when I tried to buy a book - just going to the checkout - it gave me a similar 'you aren't in the right country' message - so I guess one would need to remove the registered one click credit card and use vouchers or something.
That's why I was surprised it worked.
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You had to use vouchers (gift cards) with Amazon in the beginning (ca. 1 year ago), before the introduction of the international Kindles. Even then it wasn't rigid: I've sent gift cards from one account to another for a while. Then I found out, that I even could send myself gift cards from within the very same account (
which perfectly demonstrates the nonsense of DRM and geo restrictions. I can purchase US gift cards with my German credit card and hand them to US customers. But I can't purchase directly with the very same credit card I've been using to buy the gift cards...).
With B&N I've had some problems. They insist on an U.S. IP. I've tried to purchase from B&N without one by accident, since then I've got an invalid purchase in my library...
BTW: I have "1 Click purchase" activated, no problems at all. And
Amazon automatically did register my Kindle DX Graphite to my US account and then sent it over, directly to my German home address.
I've never tried to change my location within one account. I've just added another one and sometimes switch between accounts (but 95% I'm using the US one, sometimes the UK one, never the German one due to lack of German material).