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Originally Posted by kukafei
I was referring to the original issue of the thread- is Kobo filtering non-NA IPs?
The answer is yes, which then led to someone else's question of whether or not it's deliberate, and that's what I was responding to- based on that Customer Service reply, blocking people outside of NA from buying ereaders seems to be deliberate.
The problem with credit cards authorizations, while a serious problem, is a separate issue. People outside of the US can't even get to a place where they can enter a credit card number, unless they use the FF workaround to make it seem that they are in NA.
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Yes kukafei. Two different issues.
As to why Kobo should want to lock out non NA purchasers, it's a mystery, though there seems to be little doubt it is intentional. That reply from Kobo CS was pretty unambiguous. And then in the same breath, they suggest you can get around it if you have a friend or relative in NA!