Hi, I'm a new Kindle 3 owner, having it for almost a week now and I am absolutely loving it. All that a read so far in this short period was free stuff because I'm saving some money for a cover and other accessories.
But then a sequel of a free book caught my eye and there I went to buy it, no problem as it was only $0.99. All happy I inserted my real Portuguese card, it didn't say nothing at the moment and oddly enough I still received the book.
But then received and email saying there was a problem with my credit card and I remembered that I had to use MBNet (kind of a online/virtual credit card) to order my Kindle, used the same card as it still had some money on it, nothing it gave me error again. Then I thought well maybe I can only use those cards for one transaction only and I made a new one, and there it goes an error again, primarily saying that the problem was the expiring date (it's set for the next month, AFAIK there no way to give it more time) and then after another try just said there was problem with it and nothing more.
Then, as nothing of this worked, I went and thought that maybe I could surpass this buying a Gift Card for myself and buying the book through it, as supposedly it would accept my national card, but nothing. Tried with the real card and the online/virtual one and couldn't buy the Gift Card too.
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So then my question is, how the hell can I buy books here in Portugal or Europe in general?
Do I have to go to my bank and give some permission to Amazon to access my account or something similar? If so, do I only have to do this once or each time I want to buy something?
I hope someone from Portugal or living there could answer me, but if you just live somewhere else in Europe (excluding UK) knows hoe to pass through this please help me, I do really want to buy some books.
P.S.: BTW I'm buying from the amazon.com site and the book is available in Europe. So that's not the problem either