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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by Y_Y on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:46AM (#16508613)
It's the same in Ireland (inexplicably, Amazon employs tons of people here). The solution is that several businesses have popped up to reship things from the UK. There's no legal reason you couldn't. One nice thing is that when I buy from Amazon I can compare all the EU Amazon sites for price and get the cheapest.
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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by hsivonen on Saturday March 03, 2018 @06:09AM (#16508784)
Refusing to ship EU-wide is a common UK e-commerce anti-pattern that bizarrely applies even to Amazon. Even before Brexit was a thing. It's really annoying.

Well, more money to German merchants (and amazon.de). Many German merchants even provide English UI for Nordic customers these days. (Amazon.de provides hit-and-miss machine translation to English.)

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