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Originally Posted by clibbob
I live in Qatar and got a PRS-600 brought to me by a visiting friend. In order to use the Sony store for purchasing books (and to use the credit that came with my Reader), I had to log on to a Virtual Private Network that was situated in Canada in order to register my credit card. The Store could detect, otherwise, that my IP was in Qatar and wouldn't accept my credit card -- for security???? purposes. After that, there has been no problem using the Sony store.
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I order stuff from Riyadh the same way (VPN through US). I use my local credit card without any problems though. The billing address I use is my Aramex drop address in the US.