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Well as I somewhat expected, Chapters reply to me was they don't ship the Kobo. I haven't tried to see if their website still lets me, I'm guessing it does but I'll leave it be. It definitely suggests to me there's a fair chance warranty issues won't be any better when using them.
This was in my first message but I move it here since it isn't important. In case people are wondering, the Kobo Glo is ~NZ$198 here and has been since launch from decent stores which isn't great but isn't too bad, about NZ$25 more then the US$129 based on current exchange rates after taking in to account GST which is sort of what you expect. Given the higher price, you'd expect the premium to be a bit more, but over NZ$70 premium is a bridge too far for me, I could understand NZ$249 or even NZ$259 but NZ$299, no way.
And I do want an Aura HD because of the larger screen size and it's usefulness when using large fonts. Also, forgot to mention before but from what I've seen there's a slight chance something stupid will happen with shipping like the Kobo will be shipped from HK to my freight forwarder in the US but oh well such is the life of relying in the vagaries of seller imposed shipping limitations (although I'm a bit surprised they're sending them from HK like that).
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