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Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by kruk on Thursday August 16, 2012 @02:31AM (#4390167)
You should be able to use a proxy then. Or buy as a gift, for some reason they don't block those.
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Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by KTamasEnty on Thursday August 16, 2012 @02:38AM (#4390186)
using a proxy/vpn and buying yourself gift cards from another account should give you reasonable protection, yes. As long as you have enough gift card balance, Amazon won't ask you to add a Credit Card. But it's cumbersome, etc.
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Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by kruk on Thursday August 16, 2012 @02:52AM (#4390211)
Amazon recently started blocking my Kindle purchases basing on the fact my IP locates me in Japan while my primary address is set to the USA. When I switched to the gift option (using the same account) it worked without any problem even though I was still using the same Polish credit card.
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Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 by KTamasEnty on Thursday August 16, 2012 @04:17AM (#4390389)
heh, good to know, thanks.
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