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Old 05-29-2011, 03:33 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
They have grounds to suspend your account but no real motive. Amazon has suspended a few accounts. They were folks who entered a bogus address and were using a foreign credit card, not gift certificates, and bought many books at one time.

Realistically, the companies would rather sell you stuff than not. So if you do a moderately decent job of masking your account, a real address (pick a business or home address from google), use gift certificates (not traceable to a foreign account), and use something to hide your ISP you are probably going to be fine.

That said, if I were over seas doing this, I would make darn sure to download any book I bought to my computer so I had a back up of it just in case my account was locked.
Ebookstores have only implemented geo-restrictions because the publishers forced them to (because ebooks were becoming too popular). For the stores a sale a sale. They do not care at all if the buyer really lives in the US or not.
They just have to prove to the publishers they have geo-restrictions implemented. As long as the publishers are satisfied the ebookstores do not care who buys their books.
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