Changing Kindle stores?

[zxczxc]

Originally Posted by Croker

Thanks very much for your help - unfortunately, however, Amazon.com is no longer selling the book on Kindle (I have no idea why, because they were doing so previously), and even changing to Amazon.com doesn't allow me to buy it from Amazon.ca. Would actually changing my address to a Canadian one allow me to buy it from there?

sorry, i thought that is what i was trying to get across.
sure, if you change your address to a canadian one it will let you use the canadian shop. if you change it to a uk one, it will let you use the uk shop, if french, french... etc etc etc

Originally Posted by Croker

People wanting to do this themselves from the UK site should log in, go to the "Manage Your Kindle" section of their account, then click on "Country Settings". It will show "United Kingdom" under "Current Country", and to the right is a link marked "Change". Click that and a window to enter a new address will appear (if you've already entered a US address into your address book, you can just choose it from the drop-down at the top of the window). When you're done, click "Update", et voila, that's it!

not to be rude, but i thought i explained this with the 4 little pictures in put up in the link i shared with you, in the 2nd post? didn't they help, were they not good enough etc?
honestly, i want to know, so that i won't share them again with other people who have this question about changing stores (since it does come up often enough)

glad you got this sorted though

[jscarbo]

Like Dr Drib, I also have dual residency, in my case in the US and in Costa Rica, Central America. My Amazon account and my Kindle devices are all registered to my US address and funded by a Visa check card issued by my US bank, so I've never had any problems buying Kindle books from the US Kindle store, with US prices.

However, I also have a Google Nexus 7 and a B&N HD+ which I bought from Costa Rica and had shipped to me from the US during the days when both devices were sold in the US only. For me, the solution was easy and worked fine.

I use a mail and package forwarding service based in Miami, which gives me a physical address for package delivery as well as a P.O. Box for mail delivery and a local Miami telephone number. The account is free. They only charge for actual delivery services.

Next, I called my local bank in Costa Rica and had them change my local Visa bank card to an international card, since it was originally issued as only a national card, and had them add my Miami address as an additional billing address. All of this was completely routine and easy to do.

I set up my Google account and my B&N account with my Miami address and my Costa Rican Visa check card, also using the Miami address. I've never had problems using either account as US-based. I'd assume the same would work with an Amazon account. Of course, this doesn't work for videos and other content which is geo-restricted and tracked by ip address, unless you add the additional step of obtaining a vpn service with US-based servers. I use ibVPN, which is one of the least inexpensive ones and has always worked great for me.

[Katsunami]

The one time I switched Kindle stores to be able to get at a book, I immediately received an email asking me to prove, within two months, that I actually lived in the new country, or switch back as soon as possible. A warning was issued that, should I keep buying from the new countries catalog without proving I had moved there, access to the Kindle address/movement page could be restricted.

[Mike L]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

The one time I switched Kindle stores to be able to get at a book, I immediately received an email asking me to prove, within two months, that I actually lived in the new country, or switch back as soon as possible.

So what did you do? Did you provide the proof, or did you switch back? And did they tell you how you are supposed to prove what country you live in?

Mike

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Mike L

So what did you do? Did you provide the proof, or did you switch back? And did they tell you how you are supposed to prove what country you live in?

I switched back, because I only wanted one book.

They said that you could prove that you lived in the new country in several ways, such as providing bills you were paying, such as rent, landline phone, etcetera. There were several other options.

[zxczxc]

i guess some people are just unlucky, i have been doing it without proxies/virtual machine/different email accounts etc, for years, and i have never had amazon nagging me.