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abookreader · 09-10-2010, 11:04 AM

I'll just add -
Create an account at http://www.amazon.com ... the US site.

Right now Amazon is still allowing people to maintain an account at Amazon.com and have a UK address on their Manage My Kindle page. You pay in US dollars, but receive UK availability and prices. There is a suggestion that you might want to switch your account to the Amazon UK site, but so far they don't force it. I suspect that might change in the future.

I know of a couple of people that have changed their Manage My Kindle addresses around pretty frequently without messing with changing their credit cards or bothering to go through the pay with gift cards procedures. It works fine.

Then occasionally you will see somebody report that they've had their account put down on a temporary lock down and received an email from Amazon asking them to verify their address. This seems to happen rarely and mostly when a user buys several books all at once with an IP address that doesn't match their physical location. The general consensus seems to be that if you simply ignore the email, change your Manage My Kindle address back for a couple of days - the account lock is lifted and you will be able to buy books as you normally would.

If you read the Kindle Community message board at Amazon.com every couple of days somebody will claim that people have had their Amazon.com accounts closed for messing around with the address on the Manage My Kindle page. I've never personally heard of this happening and I always wonder if it is true or just a bit of internet legend that gets repeated over and over like it is fact. But I guess the risk is always there.

09-10-2010, 11:04 AM	#22
abookreader Wizard Posts: 1,516 Karma: 2567610 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kindles - Keyboard, Fire, 2-US, iPhone, iPAD	I'll just add - Create an account at http://www.amazon.com ... the US site. Right now Amazon is still allowing people to maintain an account at Amazon.com and have a UK address on their Manage My Kindle page. You pay in US dollars, but receive UK availability and prices. There is a suggestion that you might want to switch your account to the Amazon UK site, but so far they don't force it. I suspect that might change in the future. I know of a couple of people that have changed their Manage My Kindle addresses around pretty frequently without messing with changing their credit cards or bothering to go through the pay with gift cards procedures. It works fine. Then occasionally you will see somebody report that they've had their account put down on a temporary lock down and received an email from Amazon asking them to verify their address. This seems to happen rarely and mostly when a user buys several books all at once with an IP address that doesn't match their physical location. The general consensus seems to be that if you simply ignore the email, change your Manage My Kindle address back for a couple of days - the account lock is lifted and you will be able to buy books as you normally would. If you read the Kindle Community message board at Amazon.com every couple of days somebody will claim that people have had their Amazon.com accounts closed for messing around with the address on the Manage My Kindle page. I've never personally heard of this happening and I always wonder if it is true or just a bit of internet legend that gets repeated over and over like it is fact. But I guess the risk is always there.