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Geco · 09-01-2011, 04:33 AM

Hi all,
I'm going to buy a Kobo eReader Touch (together with a colleague), but we live in Italy... soooo difficult.

We started from the "Where to buy" on Kobo site:

1. Wal-mart has no online shop (at least from here);

2. Indigo Canada is great (cool covers) but does not ship the Touch (only the covers) outside Canada (but it tells this only when confirming order...

3. Bestbuy as well, does not ship outside USA/Canada;

4. Same for Fry's.

5. I thought Borders shipped outside USA, no other information received. Before placing an order, I've asked confirmation than they are not (yet) out of business and they told us they will receive the order an ship the things with no problems. So, we placed the order, received an SMS from credit card company... and at the same time received an error from the order page in Borders site... so sent a mail and received a confirmation that the billing address cannot be outside US so the order is invalid... and in 3-5 days money will be returned (I hope!).

6. Now we're trying ordering thorugh Swindon Books (Hong Kong). Order form on the web page is quite raw, with card infos, name and email... and "You'll be contacted through email or fax for order details" meaning that there is no text field for shipping/billing address, no ship expenses evaluation... there should be a man reading each single order form and contacting all people buying... Manual management!
Well, anyway at least they've already replied to my mail saying that shipping to Italy costs 280HKD (about 36 USD or 25 EUR or 22 GBP and so on) and that "It is expected that the lead time of the delivery is 2 - 5 days.".
Let's see what happens...

09-01-2011, 04:33 AM	#1
Geco Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 100 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Touch, Aura	Buying Odissey Hi all, I'm going to buy a Kobo eReader Touch (together with a colleague), but we live in Italy... soooo difficult. We started from the "Where to buy" on Kobo site: 1. Wal-mart has no online shop (at least from here); 2. Indigo Canada is great (cool covers) but does not ship the Touch (only the covers) outside Canada (but it tells this only when confirming order... 3. Bestbuy as well, does not ship outside USA/Canada; 4. Same for Fry's. 5. I thought Borders shipped outside USA, no other information received. Before placing an order, I've asked confirmation than they are not (yet) out of business and they told us they will receive the order an ship the things with no problems. So, we placed the order, received an SMS from credit card company... and at the same time received an error from the order page in Borders site... so sent a mail and received a confirmation that the billing address cannot be outside US so the order is invalid... and in 3-5 days money will be returned (I hope!). 6. Now we're trying ordering thorugh Swindon Books (Hong Kong). Order form on the web page is quite raw, with card infos, name and email... and "You'll be contacted through email or fax for order details" meaning that there is no text field for shipping/billing address, no ship expenses evaluation... there should be a man reading each single order form and contacting all people buying... Manual management! Well, anyway at least they've already replied to my mail saying that shipping to Italy costs 280HKD (about 36 USD or 25 EUR or 22 GBP and so on) and that "It is expected that the lead time of the delivery is 2 - 5 days.". Let's see what happens...