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Originally Posted by Darkitow
About the payment... Can I just buy a "gift card" from one account (my original one) tthen register it to the "fake" one, then register the Kindle to the american account, and when everything is done, re-register it to the european account?
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The gift card is just Amazon's fancy name for electronic gift certificate. All you have to do is designate a recipient email address when you buy it from your regular account, that address then gets a code which can be entered into any Amazon account, even if it's not the one which bought or received the "gift card".
You can certainly register/deregister your Kindle between accounts if you prefer it that way, but as you remarked, it might look suspicious to have too many switches.
This is why I have K4Mac/PC set up to acquire the books and only ever download the Mobi format ones via the proxy so I can strip them, and very rarely actually re-register the Kindle to download a properly-encoded file for the occasional Topaz book because the Topaz DRM-removal tools also decompile the book for conversion at the same time, when I really just want a portable reading copy (haven't done this for months; there's not much in Topaz format which is offered free which I actually care enough to read).
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Originally Posted by Darkitow
I was thinking just to put the credit card for both books.
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You can if you like, but it seems like a faster way to get caught, if Amazon ever decides to check the billing address on the credit card. If you're going to lie at all about anything, it's best to try and lie consistently from the beginning, I think.
One additional advantage of paying with gift cards (besides the plausible deniability) is that if you buy when the exchange rate for your currency is good, then you can avoid having a lot of little exchange fees on your credit card (if your CC company charges them, which mine does), as well as a lot of small individual purchase charges which sometimes trips the attempted fraud warning at the bank.