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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I just tried to create an account with my user name (email) and it told me
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Although you indicated you're a new customer, an account already exists for XXX@XXXXX.XXX. |
I got the same message when I tried.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The point is that they're not two accounts on Amazon.com. He has account on Amazon.com, and an account on Amazon.co.uk. Different systems, different acccounts, different passwords.
It is possible to have the same password on both accounts, but you still have two accounts.
Having an account at Amazon.co.uk doesn't give you an account at Amazon.com, and vice-versa.
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Apparently it does now. I just tried to change my password at amazon.com and it worked on .co.uk, .fr and .de as well.
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I am not sure about that. I have bought on three Amazon sites (.com, .fr and .co.jp) and I believe I've also logged on to .co.uk occasionally (maybe even bought there once). To the best of my knowledge, I only registered once on amazon.com, and afterwards logged on using the same user name and password on the others. They are different accounts, yes, a change in one doesn't automatically reflect on the others, but they must be linked somehow...?
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I think you can do this now - I've tried changing my password at several of the amazon sites and the change is reflected on the others. But some years ago in 2006 and 2007 I bought a few items from amazon.fr and amazon.de and then I needed to create an account in each shop. Now, I can log in using the same credentials and even see my old orders (not all orders, but orders with the amazon shop I've logged into - i.e. I can't see my amazon.de orders when I log in to amazon.co.uk for example). I'm as sure as I can be that I couldn't do this three years ago. Essentially, you have one amazon account now.
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Originally Posted by gwynevans
I can confirm that this certainly /was/ possible to do with Amazon, as I had the same problem some time ago where I ended up with two accounts on Amazon.com, with the same username/email but different passwords, which would take me to different accounts (one was linked to my Amazon Web Services details while the other wasn't). It took me a while to understand what was going on, though, as it was so counter-intuitive!
I can't find the explanation email at the moment, but seem to recall that it was suggested that at one stage, the 'Reset Password' action would create a new account rather than resetting the old account and clearing the stored payment details, then if you remembered/used the 'old' password you got the 'old' account, while the 'new' one took you to the new one.
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Something like this may have happened. I have one account that I've used, and then there's a mysterious second one that's 'empty'; no orders, no browsing history, etc.