# An Amurrican Buying On Canadian Amazon. Problems?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 22, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-amurrican-buying-on-canadian-amazon-problems/389009 "2007-01-22T22:51:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-amurrican-buying-on-canadian-amazon-problems/389009/1 "2007-01-22T22:51:45Z")

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I want to try buying some items on Canada’s Amazon.

They have UK published books never released in the States, & some Region 1 DVDs unavailable here.

Will they ship to me?

Even the unreleased DVDs?

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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-amurrican-buying-on-canadian-amazon-problems/389009/2 "2007-01-22T23:01:31Z")

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I’ve gotten stuff from Canada and the UK Amazons before with absolutely no problem.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-amurrican-buying-on-canadian-amazon-problems/389009/3 "2007-01-23T02:08:12Z")

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Same here. I’m interested in a lot of foreign flicks that haven’t been released in north america (and I’m not waiting around for Hollywood to buy the rights and cast Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt in the remake). I had to get a region-free player but everything worked out OK.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-amurrican-buying-on-canadian-amazon-problems/389009/4 "2007-01-23T03:20:02Z")

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Note that you can’t use [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) gift cards at [Amazon.co.uk](http://Amazon.co.uk) or Amazon.ca.

Otherwise - yep, what they said. No problemo.