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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
People from other countries without a Kindle store use the US store but face geographic restrictions. Is there a way she can register a US based account using your address? Does she have a US based credit card? It sounds like no, otherwise this wouldn't be an issue.
If not, and you really, really trust her, you could set up an account for her and have her pay for gift certificates that you add to the account. The first time she buys something without a gift certificate, pull your credit card.
If you set up an account for her, I would let her register the Kindle to it but not give her the password. That way she can buy books (she emails you the gift certificate codes) but not use the account for other purchases.
Then again, the only people who I have on my Kindle account are my Mother and MIL.
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I like this idea. I trust her, so I setup an account with her e-mail, associate my credit card with it, she buys herself a gift card, makes that the default payment? All my credit cards are already associated with my own Amazon account. Can I still use one of them to associate with her account?
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Originally Posted by Mike L
Citizenship does not enter into the picture. Where there are geographic restrictions, these are based on your country of residence (or, in practical terms, the country of the address associated with your "payment method [ = credit card]). Neither Amazon nor the publisher knows or cares what your citizenship is.
If she needs a credit card with a US address, rather than giving her access to your own card, would it be possible for you to get a pre-paid credit card, registered to your address, but give her full access to it, and let her be responsible for topping it up? I don't know if that would work, but if it does, it might be an easy solution.
Mike
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I'm not sure if there's a pre-paid credit card I can get where she can re-up her balance from any country. Is there?
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
Do you know that she doesn't already have an Amazon account?
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She does, but I'm not sure with which country. I'd just open her another one specifically for her Kindle.
This is a headache. I should just get her a scarf or something. :-) She's a voracious reader though and I want to show her what she's missing. Worse case is if she can't use the bookstore to its full selection, she can offline anything written on the web.