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Originally Posted by Ryvyan
If the OP wants a touch-screen reader, the Nook would do best.
I'm outside the geographical regions for both Kindle and Nook. I went ahead with the Nook because it seems to hit all the right buttons with me. If it ever dies on me, I'll just send it back and have them service it before spending a bit more money on having it ship to the freight forwarding company to have them ship it to me.
When done that way, why would B&N not meet the warranty set out by them?
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Sorry, to insist on same topic, but this is the problem with that.
1st, you are right, you are able to buy whatever you want, as long as you have someone who can ship it to wherever you live (or if you are actually visiting USA)
But if something goes wrong, you will have to ship that back to someone in USA.
The thing is that most people don't know anyone living here, no relatives, no nothing, and in the case you know someone or there is a company who is willing to act as a "middle man" and help you on that, you must ship with insurance and probably tracking number. You don't want anything bad happens to your electronic device, don't you? On my case, I never ship electronic devices to my family in South America unless I use insurance and/or a reliable and good service. And most of the time is so expensive that it is better for me to send the money so they can buy it there.
For an international shipping and round-trip service, you will have to add maybe a hundred dollars, maybe more. When you take all that into account, plus the time you are going to be without the device, you have spent the same amount of money on shipping or almost, than the actual Nook's price.
So in my opinion and based on other forum members with similar horror stories, we do not believe that it is a good advice for a new user.
Again, every people is willing to buy whatever reader they think they like or need, but for non USA customers, the B&N probably is not the best purchase there. There are a lot of other ereaders that are easier to buy and provide local customer support: Sony, Kindle, Pandigital (on some countries), etc.