Yes! Much appreciated!
supercheesecake
joined 11 months ago
Yes it was. It needed to be connected somehow to make the purchase.
Do any VPN providers cover this?
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if both apps and webpages have access to the phone date/time for logs and to time stamp purchases etc. And Amazon use that to decide you’re not in the place your VPN is telling them.
Thanks. Still happened with location services disabled phone-wide.
Cheers, thanks for the very helpful info.
We paid for Nord quite a while ago with some special deal. I haven’t heard great things about them since though so might be time to ditch and pay for something better. I’ve heard Proton is good as well.
Yeah my payment method is US credit card. But Audible members get a credit (book) each month to buy a book with in addition to use physical money.
Everything for that account is US.
This might be it. I gave up and purchased from my desktop and the same steps worked straight away without issue. Maybe Amazon has access to phone info that I’m unaware of.
Nah the CC and billing address for my US account are fully local there. My AU and US accounts are totally seperate and everything is local for each.
I’ve tried both using their apps on my phone and the browser (Safari with privacy relay) with the same result (with VPN etc etc).
I agree, I can’t se how they’re doing this. Must be something I’ve overlooked. Or some new internet black magic they’re employing.
EDIT: Or the search result for the book I want isn’t actually available in the USA and they’ve just messed that up (since I’m searching from the US as far as they can see). I guess I could try buying a different book
I have a US Amazon account linked to a US home address and credit card. But I now live in Oz.
Audible uses your Amazon account. And regardless, I’m using an Audible credit for this purchase, so no actual payment anyway.
EDIT: and just to clarify, this is my US Amazon account I’ve had for years
Aah I see. Both. Didn’t think to disconnect from either and try separately.
I’ve already got the book now. But will remember this if I have the problem again in the future. Thanks.