Comments on: Buy Kindle books from outside US

By: John

John — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:32:22 +0000

Use two amazon accounts. One is your usual account, another is an account which u set the address to a US address. Use your usual account to buy a gift card, then gift it to the US amazon account. When u redeem and buy the kindle book through the US registered account, you must use a VPN or proxy service that uses an US ip address. The problem with hotspot shield is that it sometimes uses a different country ip address, like Germany, or another European country.

By: Sitta

Sitta — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:46:23 +0000

Hi Michael & all,

I’m currently in Indonesia and would like to buy ebooks fro Kindle. Can you still buy them from Amazon US up ’til now using Hotspot Shield? No more IP restriction?

Anybody knows the latest update on this? Much thanks!

By: Rox

Rox — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:37:09 +0000

Hi
I’m in Europe and tried to use the Chrome incognito to surf on amazon but I still get European prices

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:08:19 +0000

Hi Alex,

Somehow I have not received such email before from Amazon … may be other readers can give you a hand.

Cheers

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:58:03 +0000

Hi Michael & everyone,

I also got an e-mail from Amazon about location. Did anyone ever call them or contact them? Do they continue to send u e-mails? Are you banned from buying again?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:24:39 +0000

Thanks for the news, JB … Will try it soon !!

By: JB

JB — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:55:02 +0000

I don’t know about buying restricted titles, but I just tried to buy some kindle books that are on sale for 4.99 but when I went to buy them saw a price for 6.99. Apparently Amazon charges a VAT or something when purchasing from outside the US (I am from and have a US address account but am in Buenos Aires). Anyway, I though about using Hotspot Shield but it got some pretty poor reviews. Then I had an idea: what if I tried to use the incognito mode in the Chrome browser. Yup. It worked like a charm and I got the original 4.99 sale price. Again, I have no idea if this will help with the other restrictions this post focuses on but maybe.

By: trekker76

trekker76 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:30:16 +0000

It seems that ip hiding is not working anymore. I was using Hotspot and successfully bought kindle ebooks through gift cards but now it doesn’t allow me to do so anymore.

This is really a downer.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:27:11 +0000

Hi Kat,

It still works for me with this approach, but then again, I kinda fine with the book offerings in the International Kindle …

Hope it helps.

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:18:04 +0000

Hi Mike,

Does this still work? I am in Australia and am very frustrated that a lot of books I want to read are not available here. I have changed my address to a US once and it worked for two books but now it won’t allow me:( I have some friends in the US that can probably help me with purchases but not very clear on how to go about this. Would appreciate your help!