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Old 06-03-2009, 04:28 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by olis View Post
I live in Italy and less than a year ago I bought a kindle 1 from a US ebayer, there are serious disadvantages in doing that:
1)I had to pay the import duty and VAT (about 20% of the final price)
2)Shipping costs were relatively high (about 50$)
3)I could not open an amazon account, so I couldn't buy ebooks from the amazon website.
4)whispernet doesn't work in Europe, there is no infrastructure for it.

I was aware of all the above points nonetheless I couldn't resist but surely I would not recommend doing that.
Then, thanks olis, O.....it sounds so terrible....OK, I buy something provided by Europe.
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