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Kindles and digital purchases

azureline** — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:02:34 GMT

About 3 1/2 years ago, I bought a kindle from the US site, (starting with A. )

I usually get my books from them but recently the site has been throwing up a suggestion that I switch to the Australian site instead. I can't see any value in doing so and not sure why I would, since I only buy electronic books from there.

Does anyone else use it?

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silverfaun — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 01:18:16 GMT

I didn't know amazon had an Australian site. I have a kindle and I get a lot of free books from the pixel of ink site. I sometimes peruse the amazon site but they are so expensive and the audio books are way beyond what I'd like to pay for an ebook.

Do you have a link?

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silverfaun — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 01:21:56 GMT

It's OK I found it. I wonder if they pay their fair share of tax to Australia. Just a thought seeing the example Apple give out.

All other electronic sites too like itunes.

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azureline** — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 04:26:30 GMT

Sorry, I had to go out.

I hadn't thought about it from the tax angle. I get book bassett updates for freebies etc which I get through A***** but still buy through them if needed. Just wondering if anyone had any experience with the Aussie one.

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ambercat16 — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:52:07 GMT

I switched to the Aussie site some time ago. However, when I found that there is no wish list nor a connection to the US Amazon wish list, I switched back.

I did speak (online) to the Aussie site and they confirmed that as yet they do not have the wish list facility.....and they understood that the wish list is useful and were happy for me to change back to the US site. Apparently they will eventually have it but couldn't say when.

Apart from that, I couldn't see any difference except that the $$ were in $AU rather than $US. I also use both Pixel of Ink and Book Bassett and (when I was registered with the Aussie site) the free books were still free etc

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azureline** — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 07:23:17 GMT

Thank you! just what I needed to know. 🙂 I need the wish list, saves me having to store stuff and lose it!

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i-need-a-martini — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:21:21 GMT

I made the mistake of switching to the Aussie site. There were a lot less books available to browse.

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silvernanny22 — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:27:49 GMT

Thanks Martini.........I wondered about this!

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grumpy*cat*rocks — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:56:15 GMT

I also tried the Au site, but switched back to US.

No wish list for a start, and then I found that sometimes books that were free on the .com site were not free on the .com.au site.

I also use Book Bassett, Pixel of Ink, eReader IQ, Inspired Reads, Hundred Zeros to name but a few.

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azureline** — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 04:29:20 GMT

I think I will keep my account with the US one. Thanks so much for the replies 🙂

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daydream**believer — Tue, 13 May 2014 00:08:44 GMT

Hi all.

So im looking at a book to buy for my kindle on Amazon and on the side it says

"Kindle titles are available for AU customers on Amazon.com.au.
Continue shopping at Amazon AU store"

I dont want to get it from the AU store but i dont seem to have a choice?

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grumpy*cat*rocks — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:32:47 GMT

@daydream**believer wrote:
Hi all.

So im looking at a book to buy for my kindle on Amazon and on the side it says
"Kindle titles are available for AU customers on Amazon.com.au.
Continue shopping at Amazon AU store"

I dont want to get it from the AU store but i dont seem to have a choice?

After the hassle I had last week I would have another email account for any Amazon.com.au purchase/s.

I had switched over to the Au site as a book I wanted wasn't available on the .com site and when I tried to switch back it wouldn't allow me to unless I had a US address. Previous to this I'd been able to switch back to the .com site with no problems but apparently they have since changed this option.

I dislike the Au site only because there is no wish list on it, and I like being able to add books that I can't buy now to a wish list for later on.

So set up another account for your au purchases is my recommendation.

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azureline** — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:34:50 GMT

I am sure you can still buy from the US site, I do. It does say on the au one you can go back to the US site?

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grumpy*cat*rocks — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:38:26 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
I am sure you can still buy from the US site, I do. It does say on the au one you can go back to the US site?

I tried to switch countries but it kept asking me for a US address which is what I ended up having to make up to switch back to the US site.

I was even on the phone to the Amazon Help desk for over half an hour trying to sort it out. They are very helpful but did say that they had changed a few things and whereas before you could switch back and forth country wise, now it's different.

But I have it set up that while I may have a (fake) US address, my actual shipping address is my Australian address. Hard to explain, but that's how it worked for me.

In the meantime if there is a book I want on the Australian site then I have another email address/account set up just for that site.

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azureline** — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:38:58 GMT

Have you tried signing out and then open the US one, sign in and then buy? That is how mine went.

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grumpy*cat*rocks — Tue, 13 May 2014 02:08:54 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
Have you tried signing out and then open the US one, sign in and then buy? That is how mine went.

I think I did try but that didn't work. Believe me I was trying everything, went through 3 different Amazon staff in the process.

It's all sorted now, I can buy off either site, just have 2 different accounts that's all.