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Originally Posted by DawnMTL
Is that true??? I download from Amazon.com all the time. I wonder if I can do it because my Kindle was bought and registered in the U.S., when I was living there. Interesting...!
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Yes, because you're registered in the US. This is what happened to me recently: my sister bought me a Amazon gift certificate for my birthday. I am still not exactly sure how this happened but when I entered the gift code it kept coming up as invalid. Then *all of a sudden* it entered. So then I treated myself to a couple of books on my wishlist that I would probably have left for a later date without the gift certificate because it is not like I need more books to read, and one day when checking my account at Amazon, I see that the books I bought were charged to my credit card and I could find no trace of the gift certificate anywhere.
So, OF COURSE I send an angry email to Amazon (not really but it makes a better story) demanding to know where my gift certificate amount is, and aren't THEY the conniving little creeps, and I get an email back saying they have no idea what I am talking about, yadda, yadda. And then ALL OF A SUDDEN I start thinking about my Amazon.
com account and sure enough, there is my gift certificate.
Now how on earth it happened that I suddenly switched?
got switched? to Amazon.
com as opposed to Amazon.
ca I don't know. I don't know if the system searched after rejecting my gift certificate, or did I accidently click on an Amazon.
com link after becoming frustrated by the rejection of Amazon.
ca at the gift certificate code????
No idea. Anyway, I then emailed Amazon.
ca and told them I had figured out where the problem was and that my sister had apparently not realised that there was an Amazon.ca and bought a gift certificate at Amazon.com, and could I somehow switch the amount to Amazon.ca and Amazon.
com emailed me back and said that gift certificates bought at Amazon.
com had to be used at Amazon.
com and it isn't possible for me to buy US Kindle books when I am in Canada. So there.
The main reason I even have the Amazon.com account - well, it's been so long, I don't even remember the reason. I think I got that account before there was an Amazon.ca. I guess I'll order some real books but it feels like a waste due to the fact that with the exchange rate, I think it is more expensive for most books, even though it isn't my actual cash. For the moment I'm doing nothing about it. I haven't told my sister the mistake she made either because I don't want her to feel bad but I will have to warn her eventually that Amazon.
com and Amazon.
ca are two different entities so that she doesn't gift other people the wrong way.
So I don't actually know, Dawnie, how it works for you. Maybe you didn't change your mailing address at Amazon and therefore you can still download books from there?
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