8/18/2015 3 Comments amazon.com / amazon.caFrom a Reader's Perspective. As a Canadian citizen, I cannot shop on Amazon.com; I must shop at Amazon.ca. Since I usually only buy ebooks, that's not a hardship (all the non-book things that Amazon.com sells, Amazon.ca is slowly, like death crawl slowly, adding, but who has that kinda money??) Buying an ebook from Amazon.ca is a bit tricky. One, most reviews are posted at Amazon.com, so I have to click a link to get to them. Two, there's no "Look Inside" feature at Amazon.ca, so I have to go to Amazon.com to check if the author did any kind of editing and knows jack about hooks and sentence structure in the way I like (or increasingly, can abide). So sorting my preferences and attempting to buy and/or download books I might actually like is a bit of an exercise, but the Amazon experience doesn't stop there! No, I get my book, and then Amazon.ca sends me an email a week later asking if I'd like to review it. Why, yes, I would! I would like to review it! Reviews help my fellow authors, after all, and someday I, too, may get reviews. I click on the link, write a review, sometimes nice, sometimes not (sadly it is a rare thing I find an ebook that truly delights me.) And then Amazon tells me that I am not allowed to post the review. In order to post a review, I need to buy something, once every thirty days. Anything. From Amazon.com. Where I'm not allowed to shop, being Canadian and all. Without a purchase, I cannot post reviews. So to all my fellow authors wondering why I don't post reviews, good, bad, or indifferent on Amazon, that is why. Amazon hates me. Because I'm Canadian. Or something... (that's a smirk in their logo, innit?)
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Patricia M Palm
8/18/2015 03:44:52 am
Oh my god, I'm falling on the floor!
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davidd
8/26/2015 07:54:37 pm
Oh my gosh! I had no idea it was such a hassle to connect to Amazon from Canada! That's just sad! And stupid!
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Syd
9/3/2015 06:50:48 pm
I think the problem is a side effect of Rogers (my former ISP, which has partnerships with Yahoo) cancelling all my Yahoo accounts. Now my Amazon.ca and Amazon.com accounts have the same email address, but for some reason the purchase history isn't on both databases? So the accounts are linked for some things, but not others, creating a mess.
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