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Old 06-05-2023, 08:42 AM   #1291
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Ok, so you can just lie about your country and purchase through PayPal? I haven't tried that.
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Old 06-05-2023, 10:50 AM   #1292
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Ok, so you can just lie about your country and purchase through PayPal? I haven't tried that.
Didn't work here in Ireland for ebooks.com. They seem to geolocate the IP.
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Old 06-05-2023, 01:34 PM   #1293
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VPN + PayPal may work, though some shopping sites may block IPs associated with VPNs.
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Old 06-05-2023, 01:40 PM   #1294
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Ok, so you can just lie about your country and purchase through PayPal? I haven't tried that.
Yes. It works.
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Old 06-05-2023, 01:41 PM   #1295
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VPN + PayPal may work, though some shopping sites may block IPs associated with VPNs.
Not eBooks.com or Kobo. I've going shopping abroad from home without a VPN.
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Old 06-05-2023, 01:48 PM   #1296
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Not eBooks.com or Kobo. I've going shopping abroad from home without a VPN.
Helpful to know.
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Old 06-06-2023, 08:30 AM   #1297
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Is the paypal/credit card/region checking a new thing? In the past, I was able to use a credit card when shopping abroad.
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Old 06-06-2023, 09:12 AM   #1298
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Like Jon, I have had no issues shopping the Kobo UK store from Texas, no need of VPN. The only real trick is don't store a preferred payment option with Kobo, otherwise PayPal won't be available at time of checkout. I guess you can't store PayPal as preferred payment method?

There may be a region check on a standard credit card that is bypassed using PayPal?
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Old 06-06-2023, 10:29 AM   #1299
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Is the paypal/credit card/region checking a new thing? In the past, I was able to use a credit card when shopping abroad.
It is not the 'abroad' bit. It is what you buy.
Books have regional sales rights (contracts).
Your credit card sort of tattles on you in the first 4 digits.
3 Amex 4 Visa, 5 Mastercard, 6 , privatelabel mostly Discover (6011)
the next 3 for MC or Visa is the issuing bank <<<
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Old 06-06-2023, 11:20 AM   #1300
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It is not the 'abroad' bit. It is what you buy.
Books have regional sales rights (contracts).
Your credit card sort of tattles on you in the first 4 digits.
3 Amex 4 Visa, 5 Mastercard, 6 , privatelabel mostly Discover (6011)
the next 3 for MC or Visa is the issuing bank <<<
I've not had a problem using a US credit card to buy eBooks at Kobo UK. I even bought my Aura H2O using a US credit card in Canada.
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Old 06-06-2023, 12:13 PM   #1301
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It is not the 'abroad' bit. It is what you buy.
Books have regional sales rights (contracts).
Your credit card sort of tattles on you in the first 4 digits.
3 Amex 4 Visa, 5 Mastercard, 6 , privatelabel mostly Discover (6011)
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By "shopping abroad", I meant shopping abroad at Kobo.
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Old 06-06-2023, 01:55 PM   #1302
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I have never had a problem using my Am Ex card on Amazon UK. My sister's Visa/MC will not allow online overseas purchases.
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Old 06-06-2023, 02:51 PM   #1303
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The issue isn't overseas purchases. The issue is SOME books (paper or ebook) that have geographic restrictions. Probably some audio books too.
It will not apply to all books.
If you are physically in a shop the issuing bank/country is irrelevant, except some places don't take American Express (even for a resident). Or that used to be true.
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Regional locking is bullcrap.
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Old 06-06-2023, 03:57 PM   #1305
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