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You have to be from the US, UK, Germany or Israel to qualify. That sucks. You'd think that Amazon would at least cover the countries they are selling in.
by terpua 17y ago
You have to be from the US, UK, Germany or Israel to qualify. That sucks. You'd think that Amazon would at least cover the countries they are selling in.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoNo, I wouldn't think that actually. Can you imagine how much legal wrangling it would take to understand the law in 100+ countries? I don't make any guesses as to the size of amazon's legal team nor to their scope in terms of country coverage but really - that's a massive job. Just take the USA for example - Amazon's legal team is working overtime dealing with taxes. Should they hire 60 new attorneys just so that they can make this content utterly global? At that point, they'd probably say, "Let's just forget the entire thing. If people are gonna complain about it, then we just won't do it."
- terpua 17y agoIf you are selling something in another country, I would understand your point but this is a startup challenge. The onus is on the participants to see if their country will allow them legally. I would say that this would apply to over 90% of the civilized world.
- anamax 17y ago> The onus is on the participants to see if their country will allow them legally. You typically can't shift liability that way. In particular, Amazon can't. If there's a problem and someone has the choice of going after Amazon or some local little guy, Amazon gets it, especially if said someone is said little guy. Plus there will be arguments like "if you just changed {rule}, everything would be okay", and different groups from the same country would name different rules. FWIW, this is an example of the constant yet mostly invisible drag of "consumer protection".
- tybris 17y agoI'm surprised they even allow participants from outside the US.
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- Gibbon 17y agoAnyone know why they chose these countries specifically? Just curious.