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Technical question: don't they confirm the address against the one that the credit card vendor has on file?

• cstross 14y ago
  AMZN do that for app purchases. For books, not so much -- they're aware that folks may move from one country to another. They do ask you to confirm where you live, though, and I've heard anecdata about folks who change their country of residence too much getting cut off at the knees.
  • adrianhoward 14y ago
    I've heard that to - which is why I... ahem... I mean why my hypothetical friend keeps a separate amazon account.
  • peteri 14y ago
    Early on with kindles before they had the rest of world kindle store you had to buy from the US store (As an early international kindle buyer I had a US account) I migrated to the UK store as some books I wanted were in the UK store but not the US. So far I've not regretted this (some books are earlier in the US but some are earlier in the UK) I'm pretty sure you can migrate back but last time I looked I needed US address (easy as my sister lives in CT) and it wasn't obvious if my lack of US credit card would cause me problems later (since credit card auth checks often use addresses).