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Originally Posted by pietvo
Moreover, some sellers may use the location of your computer as the selling point, which i find stupid in itself, but others use the billing address of your credit card, which is even more stupid IMO. Fortunately others will allow you to enter an address, but even then I find these restrictions stupid anyway. It's 20th century policy applied to the 21st.
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In some cases, the main issue is that of VAT - which, in the current economic climate can be critical to most governments. The ebook stores that slap their own geo restrictions are, I suspect, simply loathe to get into the issues of collecting the appropriate VAT outside of their home countries.