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Buying Amazon Kindle book at UK prices in Ireland
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Wifie bough a kindle touch today and asked me to set it up so she could buy from amazon.co.uk. I thought I'd share the steps I took to get her up and running. I pretty much did the same thing as the o.p. However I took a few shortcuts and it still worked.
1. Set up a second account (using a uk proxy)
2. Sent a gift cert from wifies main account to the second account.
3. Applied gift cert to second account. (still on uk proxy but not sure if that is necessary)
Now here's an interesting bit. The UK proxy I was using (davesproxy) started messing up amazon pages so I stopped and reverted back to the irish ip. The books which were not available before suddenly became available. I *think* amazon sets your location when you first sign up. Thats the only thing I can think of to explain what just happened.
4. Bought first book. I was asked for an address. I used a friends address in the UK (with his permission).
5. Registered up wifies KT to the second account.
6. The book instantly synch'd and downloaded.
7. Following purchases just work and dont require you to re-enter the address.
PS in step 4 please note, if you don't have any friends/family in the UK, please try to get out more
Only kidding, I'm pretty sure any reasonable address with a valid UK postcode would work.
Just thought I'd share.
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I have a kindle registered at amazon.com and my son uses it a lot. I want to get him his own for christmas and register it at the .uk site. Has anyone done this lately and is there any problem with an Irish credit card? Also what is the easiest way to do this! Thanks! 0
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I have a kindle registered at amazon.com and my son uses it a lot. I want to get him his own for christmas and register it at the .uk site. Has anyone done this lately and is there any problem with an Irish credit card? Also what is the easiest way to do this! Thanks!
You can't buy books from the uk store if you live Ireland unfortunately. Not while using an irish ip address to connect anyway. You can try using a vpn or similiar service which will make it look like your order was placed from a uk ip address but amazon have blocked most of the uk ip addresses for such services.0 -
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Just make up an address or use a friends uk one... since my last post i have gotten a kindle from argos in ireland and it's working away on uk site,no probs
I was getting away with that for a while, but they've now stopped me buying from them at all until I verify address - I stupidly used the Kindle app on my phone which obviously gave my Irish IP. To be honest, I don't know if I can be bothered anymore, messing around with a proxy and all. Think I'll just give in and buy from .com site.0 -
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