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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
There are people here who claim it's easy to "travel" with Kobo. Don't enter a street address or a credit card (which would be linked to a street address for billing), change your country, and set your postal code to a valid number from the desired country, and then you'll be able to buy books using your gift card balance. The balance will be converted to the currency of whichever country you travel to. I've yet to try it myself, but this is my understanding of how you do it.
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Either doing so is kind of grandfathered into older accounts, or Kobo's gradually rolling out additional checks to prevent people doing it. I followed a link to a book on Kobo UK and immediately got a popup telling me I couldn't buy it because I was in the US, along with a link to change to the US site. I wasn't logged in, and haven't visited Kobo in quite a while.
Edit: To add to the confusion, I tried it just now and this time got the following message at the bottom of the page instead of a popup:
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This is our United Kingdom store.
Looks like you're in United States. You need a United Kingdom address to shop on our United Kingdom store. Go to our United States store to continue.
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Seems they're at least testing geolocating IP addresses instead of only relying on addresses.