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As an African/Nigerian I am not even allowed to see what it looks like. Talk less of trying to make a purchase [1]. Last Night, I had to lie that I am in the U
by OoTheNigerian 13y ago
As an African/Nigerian I am not even allowed to see what it looks like. Talk less of trying to make a purchase [1].
Last Night, I had to lie that I am in the US so I would be allowed to by Remote by 37Signals on my kindle.
Quite ridiculous and annoying.
http://imgur.com/eS8agor http://imgur.com/eS8agor
- tuananh 13y agohere you go http://i.imgur.com/W6owPMM.png http://i.imgur.com/W6owPMM.png
- ojii 13y agoOn first sight, this seems to be available in Japan though, which is an improvement over the Nexus 4. Small steps I guess...
- netcan 13y agoIt's not just Nigeria. And I agree. The way Google does this with an error page for non serviced locations feels really off. It's not how the web is supposed to work. Not shipping to other countries is bad enough. This is rude. Google should just put these things on Amazon.
- davedx 13y agoThey do put them on Amazon. Then you get to the checkout, and Amazon tells you you're not allowed to ship it to where you live if you're outside of Google's allowed territories. That's why I had to send my sister in the UK money to get my hands on my Nexus 4... annoying, and stupid.
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- sampo 13y ago> It's not just Nigeria. It's not just Africa, either.
- tempestn 13y agoAmazon is annoying in the opposite way. Even if you're logged in, they give no indication at all that they won't ship something to you until you actually try to buy it. Very irritating when comparing several options to have to add every one to the cart to check that you can actually buy it before wasting the time of considering it too carefully.
- Andrenid 13y agoWhen I'm logged in on Amazon I get a warning next to the product price that I can't ship it to my default location.
- scott_karana 13y agoThere is that, but it only applies if you're an existing, and logged in customer.
- itsameta4 13y agoWell how could they possibly fix that?
- pandeiro 13y agogeoip?
- jaredmcateer 13y agoGeoIP isn't really a good solution. I work on a large ecommerce site and this comes up from time to time. GeoIP databases are unreliable at best, especially for areas where IPs tend to jump borders (e.g., Toronto and Detroit)
- tempestn 13y agoBut they wouldn't need to use it for anything critical. Just for a message like, "It appears that we can't ship this to your current location: Calgary, AB, Canada. Please _log in_ to check availability to your shipping address," or something along those lines.
- dspillett 13y ago> The way Google does this with an error page for non serviced locations feels really off. And hypocritical, given they are quick enough to penalise sites which present different content to there crawler than everyone else. Presenting different information by way of adding a warning ("we can not currently supply thsi item to the location you seem to be calling from, please come back later and in the meantime let's have a look at what you could have won...") would be fine, but an error feels like "you can't have one and we don't care".
- mcv 13y agoAmazon sometimes also refuses to ship to certain countries. I remember when I tried to order something but couldn't find it on amazon.de or amazon.co.uk. I could find it on amazon.com, but they refused to ship. Very annoying. I'd like to get rid of these stupid borders.
- sjbr 13y agoyou can see it in: www.google.com/nexus
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- jmgutn 13y agoYou can use a proxy http://6.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/czovL3BsYXkuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS9zdG9yZS9kZXZpY2VzL2RldGFpbHM_aWQ9bmV4dXNfNV9ibGFja18xNmdi&f=norefer http://6.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/czovL3BsYXkuZ29vZ2xlLmNv.... I'm in south america and they also disallow it here
- mattquiros 13y agoWow, and it's sold out already.
- 2muchcoffeeman 13y agoNot surprising. Nexus 4 sales totaled somewhere between 3-4 million. I wonder why they don't/can't order enough.
- JVIDEL 13y agoMan after what happened with the N4 I thought google would get its shit together this time. Guess the store not crashing counts as an improvement...
- Kiro 13y agoThat's how it looks for everyone outside the US.
- tluyben2 13y agoStrangely it works for me while it shouldn't (doesn't work for any of my friends).
- Ysx 13y agoWorks in UK, showing local pricing.
- ipodize 13y agoWorks for me in Australia, shows our currency also...
- Tsagadai 13y agoUnfortunately it shows the 32gb version as $150 more expensive than the US version (at 449AUD or 426.51USD at today's rate). Plus they charge more for postage.
- bparsons 13y agoWorks in Canada.
- mikelward 13y agoI think your maths is wrong. I just paid $399 + $34.91 sales tax for the 32 GB model here in California. $426.51 means you get it for about $7 less. Enjoy it!
- Tsagadai 13y agoI think I should have clarified that this was for Australia. Yes, I can buy the US version and I probably will but the fact that Google is using dodgy regional pricing irks me.
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- hugi 13y agoIcelander here. Apparently Google doesn't like our kind either.
- jacoplane 13y agohttps://www.google.com/nexus/5/ https://www.google.com/nexus/5/
- kissickas 13y agoThat works. Thank you, I've been waiting for this phone forever.
- Kudos 13y agoI live in the country that their EU Headquarters is based. They won't sell any hardware to me either.
- simonebrunozzi 13y agoLuxembourg? Switzerland?
- joshAg 13y agopretty sure it's ireland for tax purposes.
- Ecio78 13y agoI think it's Ireland, in Luxembourg we have Amazon, Skype, eBay & Paypal (Paypal has a bank license that's why they moved to Luxembourg according to [1]). In Switzerland they have a research center but it's not their main EU HQ [1] http://ict.investinluxembourg.lu/ict/paypal http://ict.investinluxembourg.lu/ict/paypal
- zura 13y agoSame for Georgia.
- dschulz 13y agoSame thing in Paraguay. I managed to get a Nexus 4 from Amazon before, but I can't even buy apps from the Play Store.
- marcofloriano 13y agoSame at Brazil.
- Zak 13y agoGoogle really loves their geolocation. It's a bit absurd that when I'm signed in to Google, they still try to give me sites in German, Czech or Swedish based on my location when I've expressed my preference for English in my account settings (not to mention the browser's Accept-Language header). I'm guessing here, but I think there might be some correlation between people who travel internationally a lot and people who buy high-end smartphones. Making it difficult for people traveling internationally to buy apps or to buy devices and have them shipped to their homes isn't exactly smart. I used X11 forwarding over SSH to run a browser on my VPS to make sure they let me order my Nexus 5 in the US while I'm in Germany.
- znowi 13y agoYes, for some reason Accept-Language is totally ignored. It's quite annoying when you travel and suddenly the language changes. The trend to favor geolocation is almost ubiquitous. Few people care about user preferences in the browser, which is the standard way to do it. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...
- randomhunt 13y agoGoogle has always done this, if really always felt like they're so smug they know better than you. I've been complaining about it for well over a decade, and the reason is I travel a lot for business and hit exactly the problems you describe. It was the main impetus to move beyond Google's garden. There is the "ncr" workaround for some of their idiotness but it doesn't always work. I was sad to see Bing copy this cancer "feature" as well a few years ago.
- ddeck 13y agoI'm regularly amazed at how poor Google are at getting this right. Both of the following have occurred to me in the last week alone: 1) Friend and I both have nexus devices, both setup in English with Google accounts signed in, both residing in Hong Kong. Friend creates calendar event and sends invite to to me. I get the invite in GMail entirely in Chinese with no translation links in English. 2) Install app that requires access to Google account services. App opens browser and attempts to get account permission. Google.com shows permission granting page entirely in Chinese with no English links to change language. To make things worse, the Yes / No buttons are both blue, preventing even inferring which one is which. This last case is especially ridiculous. A nexus device, setup in English language, logged into English language Google account, browser on the device logged into Google account, and yet Google.com page displays permissions page in Chinese.
- gnarbarian 13y agocould be a legal snafu involving the govt in your country trying to tax all sales or something similar.
- Spoygg 13y agoCouldn't they just hide buy button? Can we at least see it :)
- izietto 13y agoThis is the first Nexus phone model available in Italy
- ghshephard 13y agoI'm on a business trip to Singapore (I live in Redwood City ,CA)- apparently Google isn't interested in selling me a Nexus 5 either. Oh well. Apple seems to have no issue with me going to their US store and purchasing for my US address.
- deong 13y agoMy standard joke is that Google's idea of a worldwide rollout is "Now including Oakland!"
- jkaljundi 13y agoWhat's also annoying is how many mobile apps which otherwise would be great especially for travelers are forbidden for downloads from other countries. Yelp and Hailo are 2 great examples, both do not allow visitors coming to the US from other countries to use them. So people choose Uber and Google Maps/4sq and the losers are Hailo and Yelp.
- mcv 13y agoNot just for Africans/Nigerians. As a European/Dutchman I don't get to see it either. Sounds like a US-only party.
- chatman 13y agoSame in Sri Lanka!